The Census of British Guiana. 63 
designation.'' A full table giving the conjugal condition 
as to the various races is required. The Registrar- 
General gives the proportion of married persons to the 
adult population as 35 per cent; of husbands there were 
31 per cent and of wives 39 per cent. Of the enume- 
rated wives 28,248 had not completed their fiftieth year. 
There were 34,284 husbands and 32,709 wives returned 
by the enumerators. The percentage of females, single, 
married, and widowed, from 15 to 45 years of age, to the 
total for this age, is, for all races, single women 71*9 per 
cent; married women 247 per cent; widows 3*2 per 
cent. And if these figures be taken as only approximately 
true it discloses a lamentable social condition which even 
FROUDE'S sophistry as to its being a state of innocence 
cannot reconcile one to. The fa6t remains that it is only 
where there is a permanent union of the sexes that 
children are properly cared for. It is only then that both 
parents share the duty nature has placed on them in this 
matter, and so only can human beings fitted to play any 
proper part in the world be raised. 
The occupations of the people are somewhat limited, 
there being for practical purposes only one industry in 
the colony, sugar making. Some 105, 444 persons are 
returned as agricultural labourers, but no details are given 
as to the number employed in sugar growing and making 
only. Some of these agriculturists grow provisions, 
principally plantains, cassava and Indian corn, for the 
local market. A greater detail as to all the occupations 
is wanted in the Census report. 
There were 56,663 children and persons of no employ- 
ment, an increase of 10,509 on the figures of 1881 ; more 
particularly the females of this class have increased. The 
