60 Journal of the Asiatic Soc. of Bengal. [N.S., XVIII, 1922. 
the proportions being 86%, to 46°... Thisis due almost certainly 
to emigration from churches under the Portuguese to ar 
under the Bishop of Dacca. The total rate of increase is about 
1-9°%, per annum as compared with 1.4%, the rate of increase 
recorded in the Census for Dacca District generally between 1881 
and 1911. 
It is only right to add that a considerable discrepancy 
exists between the figures stated above and the government 
census figures of 1911 and 1921. The 1911 census gave 
11,468 as the total for the Indian Roman Catholics in Dacca 
District. _ It may very possibly be the case that the Mission 
census included family members who were away on service in ~ 
ens 
taken: while, on the other hand, some of these christians may 
have returned themselves on the government forms as Anglo- 
Indians. The preliminary figures at the eas 1921 census 
(for which I am indebted to Mr. J. H. Lindsay, C.S., District 
Magistrate, Dacca) showed a total of ee sae increase over 
the 1911 total of 1103 persons, or 9.6%. The total popula- 
tion of the Dacca District increased during the same decade 
by 5.8%. 
H. E. S. 
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