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so that a comparison can be made. The present tables 
should be maintained and new ones added as is necessary. 
The old tables should not be altered at all, for it is only 
by maintaining a definite plan that the Census results 
can yield the information we all so much desire. The 
mere enumeration is almost the least useful part of 
such reports. 
The Chinese form only a small and diminishing pro- 
portion of the population. In all 13,534 Chinese immi- 
grants have reached these shores, the last ship bringing 
515, coming here in 1878-1879 season. This race now 
numbers 3,714 persons, divided into 1,239 Creoles and 
2,475 immigrants. The Creole Chinese only form "] per 
cent of the Creole population. The sexes for the whole 
Chinese population are 2,583 males and 1,131 females. 
The mixed races are for practical purposes a vary- 
ing degree of black and white. They number 29,029 
or io # 4 per cent of the total population which is probably 
an understatement of the true condition. This race divi- 
sion is remarkable for being the only class in which the 
female exceed the male immigrants. The figures are for 
those born outside the colony, males 2,388 and females 
2,664, while for the Creoles there are 10,839 m ales and 
13 138 females. The Creoles of mixed races form 14*2 
per cent of the Creole population. This racial sub- 
division will probably form a larger proportion of our 
people in the future. 
The Aborigines number on the schedules 7,463 or 
3,917 male and 3,546 females. To the total population 
this is 4 per cent. The Registrar-General gives 10,000 
more of this race as estimated to be wandering about the 
interior of the colony. The number on the schedule 
