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of course does not entirely apply to the Coolie population. 
For them the proportion of women brought to the 
colony is laid down by statute. Commencing, as immi- 
grant populations almost all do with a large preponder- 
ance of the male element a gradual change is produced; 
the female element slowly increases until a varying time 
after the establishment of a permanent home, the female 
element comes to be the largest numerically. The figures 
of the Census Report bear this out in a remarkable 
manner with only one exception, in the case of the 
foreign born of mixed races, in whom contrary to rule 
the female element is in excess. Georgetown particularly, 
from the returns, would appear to possess some peculiar 
attraction for foreign born women of mixed races. 
The relation of the sexes for the whole population is 54*5 
per cent males, 45*4 percent females, while for the whole 
Creole population the females are in excess for all races. 
For Creoles the percentage is 49*1 males and 50*9 females. 
The foreign born population have 66*3 males and 33*7 
females. The Blacks have 50*5 males, 49*5 females. 
The East Indians 61*3 males and 387 females. The 
Chinese 69*5 males and 30*5 females. The mixed race 
45*4 males and 54*6 females. The foreign born blacks 
have 59 males and 41 females, while the creole blacks 
have 48*4 males and 51*6 females. The Europeans other 
than Portuguese 59 males and 4o"3 females, and the Portu- 
guese 49*6 males and 50*4 females. 
These figures show an improvement on those of the 
1881 Census; then' there were 140,134 males and 112,452 
females, being 124*5 m ales to every 100 females. The 
percentage composition was then 55*5 males and 44*5 
females. The improvement is not very marked for ten 
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