50 TlMEHRI. 
the towns. It would seem that the floor space is often 
the only limit and no great regard is paid to the separa- 
tion of the sexes. I strongly suspect we are not much 
better than Barbados in this matter 
The returns of the enumerators give 54,602 inhabited 
houses, 1,504 houses in course of construction, and 3,823 
houses unoccupied. This gives an average of 5 persons 
to each inhabited house. It is difficult to judge of the 
accuracy of this return, for the enumerators had evidently 
vague ideas as to what constituted a house, so much so 
that the Registrar-General places no reliance on these 
figures. I can sympathise with the enumerators : the term 
house is difficult to apply in this colony. 
A certain number of persons (the figures are not given) 
were returned as sleeping in the open, and 582 persons 
slept in the crafts on the rivers and 15 at the Light- 
ships. 
The races of our population. Starting in 183 1 with an 
almost entirely black population (with 89*4 black and 7*5, 
per cent, coloured and black), we find, 60 years after, 
under the influence of Immigration, a curious mixture of 
races in the 1891 Census. 
The figures are : — Europeans other than Portuguese 
1*637 i tne Portuguese 4*371 ; the East Indians 37*891 ; 
the Chinese 1*334; the Blacks 41*528 percent. These 
can be divided into 1*233 f° r Africans and 40*295 for other 
Blacks Mixed races are as high as 10*429 and the 
Aborigines are only 2*681. Other races are just repre- 
sented, being only *i2 per cent of the whole population. 
Divided as to Creoles and foreign born, Mr. DALTON 
gives 170,106 as natives of the colony. He gives the 
increase of the creole population as 20,467 for the decen- 
