108 REPORT—1849. 
Contributions to the Statistics of Sugar produced in India. 
By Lieut.-Colonel Syxes, F.R,S. 
Colonel Sykes stated that the Goverment of India having called for returns of the 
quantity of sugar produced in the different collectorates in India, he was enabled to 
lay before the English public, in a condensed form, the substance of those returns, 
Unfortunately it was necessary to have recourse to estimate in so many instances, 
that the results can only be looked upon as approximations to the truth, but they 
are the only approximations hitherto furnished from India. . 
Colonel Sykes states that sugar in India is produced from the sugar-cane and from 
trees of the palm tribe, the Date (Phenix dactylifera), Palmyra (Borassus flabelli- 
formis), and Cocoa-nut (Cocos nucifera), which trees give no inconsiderable return of 
sugar: for instance— 









Number of Date or ' 
other trees used for| Produce in cwts, | Equal to cwts. |Produce in lbs, 
Sugar produce, of Raw Sugar. of Sugar. per 100 trees. 
Bengal Presidency......... 6,390,590 759,558 286,519 1330 
North-western Provinces 258,071 470 1562 270 
Madras Presidency ........ 6,468,368 484,838 161,61 22 838 
Bombay Presidency ....... 250,063 158 533 {No average. 
Note—In the N.W., provinces and in the Bombay presidency the juice of the date 
and other trees is chiefly used to make an intoxicating liquor. 
Colonel Sykes then contrasted the returns from the several districts, and furnished 
the following analyses :— 














Con- 
sump, O 
Produce Produce Consump-| Available] Sugar | Produce 
Acresun-| tons of Date or tons of Total tion in for per per 
der Sugar,| Sugar. | Palmtrees.| Sugar. Sugar. India. Export. | head. | Acre. 
Bengal...... 224,027 | 82,290 | 6,390,590| 12,6592) 94,9492) 67,5772) 27,372 
ipso se 610,1793| 128,0773| 258,071 8 | 128,0853) 72,6443] 55,441 
Madras...... 28,3162) 13,104 | 6,468,368] 7,8833] 20,9873] 12,711 | 8,2763 
Bombay ...| 25,782 7,7652| 250,063 731 7,7733| 9,069 | None. 
Total ..... 888,3042) 231,237 |13,367,092| 20,5583 251,7953) 162,0012) 91,9893 
StraitSet-|| 4 4763! 9,799} 19,175, 196 | . 2,988 269 | 2,719 | s¢ |10 7 
tlements ? 4 = ‘ 3 3 


Colonel Sykes subsequently gave details of the cost of production of sugar in India. 
Statistical Account of the Labouring Population inhabiting the Buildings at 
St. Pancras, erected by the Metropolitan Society for improving the Dwell- 
ings of the Poor. By Lieut.-Col. Syxes, F.R.S. 
After stating what had previously been done by the Statistical Society of London 
and the Statistical Section of the British Association by way of inquiry into the do- 
mestic arrangements of the poor, Colonel Sykes said it was scarcely possible the 
reports made by these bodies, and read as they were at public meetings and subse- 
quently printed, should fail to attract the notice of some of the many benevolent and 
practical men in England. Sir R. Howard, Lord Morpeth, Lord Ebrington, Mr. T. 
F. Gibson, Lord Grosvenor, Lord C. Hamilton, Mr. J. W. Tottie, and others, soon 
associated themselves together for the purpose of forming a “‘ Metropolitan Association 
for the Improvement of the Dwellings of the Poor.’”” A Royal Charter was obtained 
on the 16th of October 1845, limiting the profits to 5/. per cent. In May 1848 the Di- 
rectors reported the completion of the building, and that, of the 110 sets of rooms 103 
were let; the number of applicants being 197, some of whom were refused for want 
