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that tlie preponderance of the male sex ultimately takes place : as 

 for instance, in every hundred men, there are 98 women, but in eVBry 

 hundred hoys, there are but 71 girls. One way to account for this 

 remarkable fact, may be explained in the custom that obtains in the 

 East, of classing girls as "women, at a far earlier period, than is the 

 case in Europe. Respecting births and marriages, the prejudices of 

 the natives prohibited all attempts at obtaining information under 

 this head. The returns of deaths present a high rate of mortality, 

 being 1 in 26 : the average rate in Java is 1 in 40, and in England 1 

 in 51- This excessive mortality may have been the case, as the cen- 

 sus was taken for the year 1816, which was one of extreme distress, 

 occasioning much sickness of a depressing nature, cholera alone 

 amounting to nearly the half of the casualties, small pox about a fifth, 

 fevers a tenth, and other disorders about a third. Of the diseases 

 incident to the inhabitants, fe\ er as usual prevails most generally, and 

 is often found of a bcrious nature tov/ards the hilly country, or 

 amongst the broken banks of ravines, which are generally depots of 

 malaria; rheumatisnj, and spleen disease, are always rife in such 

 localities. Blindness is a common calamity, generally arising from 

 structural disorganization of the eye, the ravages of small pox, a 

 disease that annually scourges the population to a very serious extent 

 in common with cholera. Leprosy of the skin, is less common than in 

 its more hideous form, affecting the joints. Gjainea worm is occa- 

 sionally seen, but is not common, neither is stone in the bladder. 



The following table shows an analysis of the population according 

 to their arrangement by castes. 





Population AREANaED in Caste3. 



Brahmins- 



Rajpoots. 



Shoodrahs, 



Mahratta 

 Cultivators. 



Atee Shoo- 

 drahs or 

 Low Castes. 



Moossul- 

 rnen. 



Circar 

 Dowlutabad. ... 



I'er Cent. 



Per Cent. 



Per Cent. 



Per Cent. 



Per Cent. 



5-455 



2-395 



67-513 



12-435 



10-298 



