ESE DEANS CENSUS OF W911 637 
A WANDERING MENDICANT 
Over 4,000,000 holy men wander from temple to temple in India, and special provision had to 
be made to count them. 
Only preliminary results are in as yet. 
But there is enough to indicate the 
growth that has taken place in the cities 
and in the country at large. Most of 
the cities show decided gains, some as 
high as 20 per cent; but, on the other 
hand, a few show losses. Bombay re- 
ports a loss of 4,930 from the number 
reported in the municipal census of 1906. 
Photo by John J. Banninga 
This is accounted for by the removal of 
several cotton mills from the city. Cal- 
cutta reports a gain of 109,000; Madras 
now has 517,335 inhabitants. Plague 
and famine are two of the factors that 
enter into the explanations for the losses 
in several cities. As was to be expected, 
fertile districts have made larger gains 
than others. Irrigation has helped sey- 
