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The number returned in the Census of 1891 as under 1 
year old, 5,400 is in striking contrast to the number 
registered as born in 1890. In his Annual Report for 
1890, the Registrar-General gives the registered births as 
8,726. From this must be taken the 1,488 children regis- 
tered as dying under 1 year old during the same period, 
thus leaving 7,238 children alive at the end of 1890. 
Now the births and deaths for the first quarter of 1891 
may be taken as equal, so that I find 1,838 children under 
1 year old, by the Annual Report unaccounted for by the 
Census enumeration. Further, one, if not two, coolie 
ships arrived early in 1891 bringing some children under 
1 year old, and I do not know that any large body of 
persons left the colony during the same period. This of 
course increases the disagreement. Now if such a large 
error from mis-statement or otherwise can creep into 
such a small number as 7,238, what trust can be placed 
on the numbers returned at other ages, more especially 
perhaps in the periods of more advanced ages ? Little or 
no reliance can be placed in them. 
The conjugal conditions oj the people.— The figures in 
