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the population aged between 15 and 45 for the year 1890. 
In England 12 children are born annually to every 100 
married and unmarried women. 
The total number of people given by the Census 
Enumerators was 3,775 less than the estimated popula- 
tion given in the Registrar General's Annual Report 
for 31st December 1890 This number spread over the 
ten years gives an annual error of 377 in excess. No 
explanation of the disagreement in the two totals is given 
in the Census Report, but in the Annual Reports of his 
Department by Mr. DALTON, I note that he draws atten- 
tion from time to time to the fact that comparatively 
large numbers of persons leave the colony unregistered ; 
and these not being deducted from the Annual Esti- 
mate an error must arise. It is not a matter of grave 
importance perhaps, for after all the error is not large. 
Mr. DALTON adds io ; ooo Aborigines, estimated as 
wandering about the interior of the colony, to the 278,328 
given in the Schedules, but in all the tables and calcula- 
tions of the report these are disregarded. The increase 
in the population was diffused over the whole colony, 
every portion more or less sharing in the increase in the 
number of inhabitants. Generally speaking, those dis- 
tricts in which the Coolies settle showed the greatest 
increase. 
The distribution of the population over the colony is 
very irregular. Along the coast there are the two large 
centres, Georgetown and New Amsterdam, with thin 
lines of population running away from them along the 
sea border and up the rivers for limited distances. 
These lines show here and there some thickening more 
especially in the neighbourhood of the Sugar Estates. In 
