Chap. XXIII.] benefits of the industry. 471 
The division of the labour in the districts of Bombay and the Central 
Provinces is shown in the following table 
Table 46. 
Daily number of workers employed in the manganesC'quarries of Bombay 
and the Central Provinces, from 1900 to 1907. 
Bombay. 
Cenirai Provinces. 
Year. 
Belgaum 
Panch 
Mahals. 
Total. 
B4iagh4t. 
Bhand&ra. 
Chhindw4ra. 
N4gpur. 
Total. 
1900 
(a) 
1901 
(a) 
(a) 
1,460 
1,460 
1902 
105 
300 
1,676 
2,081 
1903 
385 
75 
r,543 
4,003 
1904 
125 
125 
295 
64 
1,651 
2,010 
1905 
48 
(a) 
48 
362 
300 
1,904 
2,560 
1906 
48 
223 
271 
1,836 
973 
(a) 
2,345 
5,154 
1907 
1,099 
1,099 
2,663 
2,230 
416 
3,924 
9,233 
(a) — Not returned, although work was progressing. 
From the figures given in table 46 it will be seen that some of the 
totals for the Central Provinces given in table 45 are defective, and 
one of those for Bombay. It is also to be noticed that the figures are 
in many cases returned only when a deposit comes under the Mines Act. 
Takinof into consideration the fact that statistics for 1906 are not avail- 
able in the case of Bengal, Sandur, and Mysore, and are defective in the 
case of the Central Provinces, it is not improbable that the total average 
daily number of workers during this year was nearly 15,000. Taking 
the production totals for 1905 and 1906 as 245,627 and 513,488 respec- 
tively [including only Bombay, Central Provinces (except Chhindwara), 
Central India, and Vizagapatam, the areas for which labour statistics are 
available] the average number of tons extracted during the year by each 
worker is 40-95 for 1905 and 40-73 for 1906. 
Allowing for cases that have escaped inclusion in the Annual Eeport 
of the Chief Inspector of Mines for 1906 it is probable that the average 
Benefits of the man- daily number of workers engaged in manganese 
ganese industry. mining in British India was about 12,000. This 
i? equivalent to nearly 10 per cent, of the total number of persons engaged 
