The Census of British Guiana. 43 
immigration was now well established and had brought 
in the ten years, 43,314 persons, mostly East Indians, as 
well as a considerable number of Portuguese. The per- 
centage composition at this time became more varied. 
The Census gave 62*1 per cent, as Creoles, using this 
term to mean " born in the colony," irrespective of racial 
parentage. There were 1*5 foreign born Whites. The 
Portuguese and East Indians claimed 5*8 and 5*6 per 
cent, respectively — this last race being very nearly 
divided as to their origin from Madras or Calcutta. The 
other foreign born element was for the most part African 
Blacks, there being 14,551 of these or 10*4 per cent, of 
the whole population. The West Indian Islanders now 
numbered 9,278 persons or 6'S per cent.; while the 
Aborigines, Seamen and Military numbered together 
8,229 or j ust over 6 per cent. At the end of the next 
decennium 186 1, the population had reached a grand 
total of 155,907 — an increase of only 19,983 in the face of 
39,207 immigrants brought to the colony in this period, 
composed of 9,589 Madeirans, 23,381 East Indians, 
2,568 Africans and 3,283 Chinese. During this de- 
cade three fatal disorders are recorded as afflicting the 
country — yellow fever from 1851 to 1853; small-pox 
in 1855 and 1856, and cholera in 1856, and 1857 — anc * 
so perhaps explaining the limited increase ot the inhabi- 
tants at the time of the Census enumeration. The per- 
centage composition of the population at this Census 
was as follows : — the Creoles, excluding Aborigines, formed 
6o'2 per cent ; the West Indian Islanders 5*3 ; the 
Portuguese 63; Africans 5*9; Natives of Madras 2*9; 
Natives of Calcutta in. The total Coolie proportion 
was hence 14 per cent. The Chinese claimed 1.7 per 
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