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Change of head-quarters. ^The sadr station was placed at annexaand also after the matinies at Daryabad but owing to the stagna-

tion,

tion of water in the immediate vicinity of the town, and to the prevalence of. fever, the head-quarters were removed in 1859 to Nawabganj Bara Banki.

The Government

ofi&ces and private houses are now built on a plain well drained by ravines ; the situation has hitherto proved to be very healthy. Indeed, it is understood from the surgeon of Her Majesty's 75th Regiment, when the regiment was stationed here in 1858-59, that their sick list had never been so small as at Bara Banki. With the exception of the neighbourhood of Daryabad, the health of the district has been year after year remarkably good. The district originally contained three tahsils and thirteen parganas but Bhitauli was transferred from Bahraich, and in

which

is

1870 two parganas Dewa and Kursi were added from Lucknow, pargana Haidargarh from Rae Bareli, and pargana Subeha from Sultanpur. Twentythree separate villages of the Lucknow district were also included in Dewa. The area and population of the district are now as shewn in the following table

Table No.

1.