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island. The tourist business is assuming considerable dimensions; with a view to 

 stimulating it a Barbados Improvement Association was started in 1911. 



The birth rate in 1910 was 37.2 per thousand and the death rate 25.5 per thousand. Of 

 the births 58.8 per cent were illegitimate. Infantile mortality stands at 268 per thousand. 



Sugar has always been the chief product of Barbados. The crop for 1910 amounted, to 

 35,906 hogsheads of muscovado, 3993 hogsheads of vacuum-pan crystals, and 77,722 punch- 

 eons, of molasses, or 22,104 hogsheads of sugar and 8686 puncheons of molasses more than 

 that of the previous year. Barbados was one of the first West Indian Colonies to participate 

 in the revival of the cotcon industry in the West Indies, and remarkable results were obtained 

 within a comparatively brief period. In 1910 however the acreage reaped declined from 

 5768 [to 4121, the decrease being due to the low price and poor yields obtained in 1908. 

 The remunerative prices obtained during 1909 and 1910 resulted in an increase of the acreage 

 from 4121 to 4741. Bananas are cultivated to some extent, and during 1910, 13,137 bunches 

 were exported. 226,169 gallons of rum were manufactured in 1910, as compared with 207,- 

 2 39 gallons in 1909. Sea Island cotton is ginned locally. 



The imports and exports in 1909 and 1910 were valued as follows: (1909) exports, 

 888,086, imports 1,119,343; (1910) exports 1,058,830; imports 1,345, 194. United 

 Kingdom imports, 480,823 in 1909, rose to 592,641 in 1910; United States, 355,809 in 

 1909, to 399,649; Canadian, 131,910 in 1909, to 151,985. Canada in 1910 occupied only 

 third place in the list of importing countries, but her advance is steady. The principal 

 commodities purchased from Canada in 1910^ were flour (31,144) and white pine (31,409); 

 other articles, all of which show an increase, include pats, iron nails, staves and shooks, beef, 

 cordage, fruit and vegetables, grain and shingles. Fish, butter, sulphate of ammonia and 

 hay are also obtained from Canada. Of the total exports in 1910, 783,125 represented 

 produce of the colony, and 305,705 the produce of other countries. Exports to the United 

 Kingdom, 70,487 in 1909, rose to 117,223 in 1910; those to Canada, 348,707 in 1909, to 

 484,108; those to the United States, 37,219 in 1909, to 77,650. Exports of sugar 

 (396,004) showed an increase of 243,092, as compared with 1909, Canada alone taking 

 268,455 as against 107,222 in 1909. 



The revenue in 1909-10 was 195,803, and in 1910-11 213,298; the expenditure in 1909- 

 i.o was 199,625, and in 1910-11, 211,949. Public debt stood at close of the year at 

 422,900, and the sinking fund at 85,940. 



The primary schools number 166 (Anglican 132, Wesleyan i8,and Moravian 16), scholars 

 on the rolls numbering 27,658, and the average attendance being 16,829. The government 

 grant towards these schools amounts to 11,264. The colony's total expenditure on educa- 

 tion in 1910 was 19,209. First and second grade schools in receipt of annual legislature 

 grants number 9 (7 boys' and 2 girls') the largest grant (1000) being made to Harrison 

 College (boys). The number of pupils on the rolls of these schools totals 635. The colony 

 makes provision for scholarships tenable by students enrolled at Codrington College, and 

 for a further scholarship tenable at a European or Canadian University. At the close of 

 1910 there were 4 ragged schools, having 285 scholars, with an average attendance of 173. 



During 1910 there were 9888 summary convictions [and 40 convictions in Supreme 

 Courts. The percentage of convictions to population is 5.79. The daily average number 

 of prisoners in Glendairy prison was 210 for 1910; the number of persons committed to penal 

 imprisonment, 1785. There were 134 boys in the Industrial school on December 31, 1910. 

 The proceeds of its agricultural work amounted to 1937, and the expenditure to 2483. 



The Governor in 1912 was .Sir Leslie Probyn, K.C.M.G. 



JAMAICA 1 



The census of April 1911 showed a population of 831,383 (females 433,944, 'males 

 397,430)- Compared with the previous census of 1891 this return reveals an increase of 

 191,892 or 30 per cent compared with an increase of 26.3 per cent between 1871 and 

 1891. Every parish except Port Royal contributed to this increase, notably St. Mary 

 70 per cent and Portland 53.7 per cent. Labour requirements on the Panama Canal, 

 in Cuba and in Costa Rica have affected the emigration and immigration returns; 

 13,109 labourers set out from the Colony during the year ending March-31, 1912 and 

 8,984 arrived at Kingston. The marriages celebrated during the financial year 1911-12 

 numbered 3607 a rate of 4.2 per thousand as compared with 4.0 in 1910-11. Both 

 these rates show a remarkable" decline when compared with 1907-08, when owing to the 

 emotional effects of the earthquake at Kingston in January 1907 the rate rose to 7.4. 

 As a result, in 1908-09 the return of illegitimate births declined. to 60.59 per thousand. 

 The total births registered in 1911-12 numbered 32,750, representing a rate of 39.0 per 

 thousand, the rate for illegitimate births being 64.1 per cent. The death rate stood 



1 See E. B. yy, 132 et seg. 



