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The following table shows the proportion of males to 
females in the different collectorates, and their principal cities 
and towns : 
Collectorates. saree Cities and Towns. aes fe 
Poona Collectorate...| 100 to 88 |Poona...... abesbceeesas 100 to 94 
iihieltetdeeruy do....) 100 to 86 |Ahmednuggur ...... 100 to 92 
Khandesh do. ......... ~ 100 to 85 |Joonur... ..scceseceeees 100 to 89 
Bieter (is Seen «| 100 to 89 |Dharwar .......s.0s000. 100 to 98 
Belgaon .....+0. Sacetvs 100 to 91 
Bagulkoht .........+ 100 to 101°25 
Gunness Part ......... 100 to 161°14 
Births, Deaths, and Marriages.—Returns of births, deaths, 
and marriages, in an available form, were received only from 
82 turruffts of the Poona Collectorate, comprising 1109 towns 
and villages, but not including the city of Poona, containing 
81,315 inhabitants ; my information, therefore, on these sub- 
jects must necessarily be circumscribed, but the little there is 
is valuable from its novelty. Some returns came to hand from 
the Collectorate of Dharwar, but they were merely additions 
of the totals of irregular numbers of villages, (from 2 to 12,) 
and I hesitated to trust to results which I could not test 
by the original returns. Respecting births, deaths, and mar- 
riages in the Ahmednugegur and Khandesh Collectorates, I am 
totally without information, excepting a solitary return of 
deaths in the city of Ahmédnuggur in 1828, which is worthy 
of every confidence, as it was compiled by ‘my friend Dr. 
Walker, late Civil Surgeon at Ahmednuggur. 
_ Births.—In the Poona Collectorate the average births, in a 
population of 250,300, amounted only to one in 50°52 persons, 
or not quite two per cent.; the Brahmans having the smallest 
proportion, (1 in 57-29), and the Moosulmans the greatest pro- 
portion, (1 in 40°80) ; the range of births in the different tur- 
ruffs was from 1 in 15°70 to 1 in 153-60 persons; and, on the 
whole, the hilly tracts had a greater number than the plains. 
Deaths.—The deaths were 1 in 37:34 persons in the 32 tur- 
ruffs, or 2°67 per cent., indicating a*somewhat alarming dimi- 
nution in the population ;* the range varied from | in 17-21 
_ tolin 70 persons, the fewest deaths being in the hilly tracts. 
It must be considered, however, that the spasmodic cholera 
* The deaths in the kingdom of Naples for 1836—87 was 1 in 87 and a 
fraction. 
