BANGALORE: The Mysore Legislature has adopted the Government Bill for prohibition of beggary all over the state as a means of living.

Religious mendicancy, it is pointed out, will be permitted under licence. The Bill follows closely a comprehensive report submitted by the committee appointed by Government early last year.

Under the Bill, relief institutions will be established in different parts of the state where the beggars will be taken and provided work. Such relief institutions might be work-houses or settlement-areas.

The aim of the Bill is mainly to reform the beggars and it is to be made operative mainly in areas where relief is provided for beggars and imprisonment will not be awarded to offenders except as a last resort when the beggar is found [to be] incorrigible.

[Meanwhile,] Cholera took a toll of 1,424 lives in Muzaffarpur district alone during the week ended June 17, according to statistics officially available here. A medical squad is going about in a police van giving medical relief to cholera cases from place to place. Two more vans fully equipped are carrying out epidemic work in the affected areas. In the Champaran District there were 600 deaths from cholera in three days. (Dawn, Delhi)