NOTES ON THE POPULATION OF JAVA. 
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observed that the wildest parts of Java, or those in which rice 
is least cultivated, are the most unhealthy, 
The first statement which I offer to the Society is the 
abstract of a tabular view of the population of the capital 
drawn up at my request by the native authorities. The 
town is divided into quarters, called in the native language 
campong, a word which, in fact, means a village, and c on- 
veys a correct notion of what a Javanese town truly is, not an 
assemblage of dwellings laid out into streets, lanes and 
squares, but an aggregate of villages, generally parted from 
each other by stone walls or bambu fences. 
Number of married men. 10,188 
Number of married women. 10,355 
Number of widowers.. ... 1,479 
Number of widows . 1,919 
Number of unmarried lads . 2,972 
Number of unmarried girls. 2,313 
Number of boys not circumcised . .. 3,956 
Number of girls whose teeth have not been filed 3,274 
Number of male infants at the breast. 1,721 
Number of female infants at the breast .. . 1,447 
Total Population .. 39,624 
The number of dwelling houses is stated in the return at 
10,271, and the number of out-houses at 7,354. The dwell¬ 
ing houses are, for the most part, neatly constructed huts 
covered with thatch and of a single story, and the inmates 
for each house are under 4 persons. The married parties 
exceed one half of the whole population, and these, including 
those who have been married, form above 64 in a hundred of 
the whole inhabitants. 
The persons designated in the table as unmarried lads and 
girls are not what would be called in Europe bachelors and 
spinsters, but mere ^children who have just attained the age of 
puberty, and who are soon to be married. Marriage is a lit¬ 
tle longer delayed with the male sex, and this may account 
for their exceeding the females by above 28 per cent. 
The next two headings “lads who have not been circum¬ 
cised” and “girls who have not had their teeth filed” are 
literal translations from the original Javanese writing. The 
ceremonies referred to are, in fact, performed at the age of 
puberty, and this class of course includes children from the 
time they are weaned up to that period. 
In the two next headings “male and female infants at the 
