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completed. The water is impounded in a reservoir 4 miles to the
south of Moulmein, at the foot of the Taungwaing hills, and is
distributed through each division of the town by gravitation. It is
hoped that the provision of a supply of good drinking-water will put
a stop to the cholera epidemics that have visited Moulmein regularly
in the past. A sum of nearly 3 lakhs is to be expended on surface
drainage, of which the town is badly in need. Since 1898 the town
has been lit by oil gas. The gas-works are a municipal concern, the
plant being capable of generating 12,500 cubic feet of gas daily. The
municipality makes no contribution to education, but maintains a
hospital with 100 beds. Other public institutions are the leper asylum
(where 29 in-patients and 23 out-patients were treated in 1903), and
numerous schools. There is a branch of the Bank of Bengal in
Moulmein, and two newspapers are published, one in English and one
in Burmese.
Moulmeingyun.—Township of Myaungmya District, Lower Burma,
lying between 15 0 45' and 16 0 34' N. and 95 0 and 95 0 35' E., with an
area of 561 square miles. It is really a large island, bounded on the
east by the Irrawaddy and on the west by the Kyunpyatthat and
Pyamalaw rivers, and cut up by numerous creeks. The northern
portion is somewhat densely populated, but the southern is mostly
jungle-covered, though cultivation is rapidly extending. The township
was constituted in 1903, out of a portion of the old Wakema township
and an area transferred from the former Thongwa District at the time
that the District of Pyapon was created. The population of the township
as now constituted was 97,931 in 1901, distributed in 129 villages,
Moulmeingyun (population, 1,782), on one of the numerous branches
of the Irrawaddy, being the head-quarters. In 1903-4 the area under
cultivation was 273 square miles, paying Rs. 2,85,000 land revenue.
Mount Victoria. —Highest point in the Natmadaung range in the
Pakokku Chin Hills, Burma, situated in 21 0 16' N. and 93 0 57' E.,
close to the eastern edge of the hills of Northern Arakan, and about
76 miles due west of the Irrawaddy, opposite the town of Pakokku,
10,400 feet above the sea. Of recent years Mount Victoria has been
found to possess possibilities as a sanitarium, the construction of
Government buildings has commenced, and in 1902 the head-quarters
of the Assistant Superintendent of the Pakokku Chin Hills were
removed from Mindat Sakan to Kanpetlet on the mount.
Mowa.-—Petty State in KATHIAWAR, Bombay.
Mowar.—Town in the Katol tahsil of Nagpur District, Central
Provinces, situated in 21 0 28' N. and 78° 27' E., on the Wardha river
bordering Berar, 53 miles north-west of Nagpur city. Population
(1901), 4,799. Mowar was created a municipality in 1867. The
municipal receipts during the decade ending 1901 averaged Rs. 3,600.