The Census of British Guiana, 1891 
By E, D. Rowland, M.B„ CM. 
;HE limited circulation, and the still more limited 
number of readers of Mr. Dalton'S Census 
Report together with the scant notice which it 
has received, will I think be sufficient reason for my draw- 
ing attention in this Journal to some of its more important 
features. The report itself is a very short statement of 
the general results, extending to only some six and a 
half pages, with six pages of what are called summaries, 
and a number of more or less elaborate tables. These 
last are arranged primarily on the territorial divisions of 
the colony and sub-divided as to town and county. 
Finally a series of abstracted tables are given together 
with a few tables dealing only with the East Indian por- 
tion of the community. It is much to be regretted that 
Mr. Dalton has not been able to see his way to dis- 
playing some of the principal results of the Census by 
diagrams similar for instance to those given in the 
Census Report for the United States — the graphic 
method of displaying statistical results being, without 
doubt, much more readily apprehended than the bald 
statement of numbers. An outline map or two of the 
colony shaded so as to display results would have 
enhanced the value of the report.* 
The Census was made under a special Ordinance, 
No. 21 of 1890, and the enumeration was for the 5th 
* Unfortunately owing to their prohibitive cost, certain coloured 
diagrams which had been appended to this paper by the author, have 
had to be left out.— Ec 
