DE YERTEUIL — PORT-OF-SPAIN. 
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annual rate of 2 per cent, of the value of all lands and 
houses within the town. 
If the above Ordinances or such of their provisions as 
have reference to the good government of the Borough had 
been or were enforced ; if the General Board of Health 
would exercise the powers vested in it by Ordinance No. 34 
of 1855, Port-of-Spain would be or soon become one of the 
best built and best regulated towns in the world. But un- 
fortunately some of those laws have become a dead letter, and 
others are left inoperative, although the salubrity of Port- 
•of-Spain depends mostly on their being strictly enforced. 
According to the census of 1861 the population of Port- 
of-Spain amounted to 18,866 inhabitants. I believe it can 
safely be brought up to 20,000. That population was divi- 
ded as follows : 7,669 males, and 10,197 females, or 75*21 
to 100*7 *756 were under the age of twenty years and 11*110 
above. The inhabitants were classed as follows : mechanics, 
1,652, or 8*89 per cent. ; handicrafts, 2,808, or 15*12 per 
eent. ; laborers, 864, or 4*11 per cent. ; domestics, 987, or 
5*32 per cent. ; hucksters and shopkeepers, 636, or 3*42 per 
eent. ; boatmen, sailors, 349, or 1*88 percent.: non-des- 
cribed, 9,642, or 51*97 per cent. : 1,928 are left for tho 
shipping, professions, clergy and charitable institutions. 
Since, and including the year 1861, the number of births 
and deaths was as follows : 
Births. Deaths. 
1861 
1861....... 
1862 
1862 
... .751 
1863 
1863 
730 
1864 
1864 
735 
1865 
. . 612 
1865 
780 
2,814 
3,975 
