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On the Statistics of Dukhun, 



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In the abstract of the census of the population of the Ahmednuggur 

 CoUectorate, taken in 1822, the boys were to the girls as 100 to 62*16 ; 

 a singular disproportion ; there being in the whole collectorate 96,44/ 

 boys, and only 59,956 girls ; but the men were to the women only as 

 100 10 102-18, the number of men being 146,750, and the women 149,945. 

 In the city of Poona, in 1822, the boys were to the girls as lOO to 73*26, 

 a greater disproportion than Sir Stamford Raffles found in Java ; at the 

 same time the adult men were to the women as 100 to 103*40. In the 

 classes only of the Brahman priests, mendicants, and traders, were the 

 men found to exceed the women. In the city of Ahmednuggur, in 1 826, 

 there were 100 boys to 67*62 girls, but 100 men only to 106*06 women ; 

 but the ultimate relation of males to females was as 100 males to 92*46 

 females. 



The following table shows the proportion of males to females in the 

 different collectorates, and their principal cities and towns : 



Collectorates. 



Males to 

 Females. 



Cities and Towns. 



Males to 

 Females. 



Poona Collectorate 



100 to 88 





100 to 94 



Ahmednuggur do. 



100 to 86 



Ahmednuggur .... 



100 to 92 





100 to 85 





100 to 89 





100 to 89 





100 to 98 









100 to 91 







Bagulkoht 



100 to 101*25 









100 to 101*14 



Births, Deaths^ and Marriages. — Returns of births, deaths, and mar- 

 riages, in an available form, were received only from 32 turruffs of the 

 Poona Collectorate, comprising 1109 towns and villages, but not includ- 

 ing the city of Poona, containing 81,315 inhabitants; my information, 

 therefore, on these subjects 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 



