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42. There was no room in any Government Building which could be used as a census office and a floor was therefore rented in D'Aguilar Street. The situation was very convenient but the space was not quite sufficient. The clerks employed were all Chinese One was paid at the rate of $30 a month, one at $20 a month, and the others partly by piece work and partly at the rate of $15 a

month.

43. The sum paid in salaries to enumerators was $1,004 and to clerks in the census office $739.90, and the total cost of the census was $2,197.97.

44. In this connection it will be instructive to quote certain figures from the Report on ths Census of the Straits Settlements in 1891. For that part of Singapore within the municipal limits containing 19,541 houses and 153,043 inhabitants, 319 enumerators were employed at an average salary of $6.51, and 20 supervisors at an average salary of $52.25. For the floating population of 6,864, 19 enumera- tors were employed at $5 and three supervisors at $50. Transport was paid in addition. The cost of taking the census of the whole island, containing 184,554 inhabitants, was $6,445.61. The cost of compiling the returns for the whole of the Straits Settlements containing a population of 512,905 persons was $10,637.07, and the number of clerks employel was 29. The Superintendent of the Census recommends that at the next census the remuneration of enumerators within the municipal limits should be $7, and of supervisors $60, transport included. A good many of the enumerators were clerks employed in Government offices, in the municipal offices, and in merchants' offices, who had to do their work out of office hours. This was not the case in Victoria. If it had been, with the staff employed, the taking of the census would have been a work of very much greater length. In the municipality of Singapore the average number of inhabitants in an enumerator's section was 480; in Hongkong, 1,698.

45. The Military and Naval Authorities at the request of the Government assisted by taking a census of their establishments.

46. Mr. CHAPMAN, the Government Assessor, made the arrangements for taking the census in the out-districts and helped to supervise the clerks in the census office.

47. The following Tables are attached to this report :—

Table I.

Table II. Table III. Table IV.

Table V.

Table VI.

Table VII.

Table VIII. Table IX.

Table X.

Table XI.

Table XII. Table XIII.

Table XIV.

Table XV. Table XVI.

Table XVII.

Table XVIII. Table XIX.

Table XX. Table XXI. Table XXII.

The total Civil Population.

A Comparison between the population in the years 1891 and 1897. The European and American population according to race.

Persons of European and American race who claim British Nationality. Birth-places of the population of British origin.

Birth-places of the Portuguese.

Nationalities claimed by the Portuguese.

The Non-Chinese population other than Europeans, Americans and Eurasians. The ages of the European, American, and the other non-Chinese resident civil

population.

The ages of the Europeans, Americans and other non-Chinese on board the

shipping.

The ages of the total European, American and other non-Chinese civil population. The ages of the Chinese.

Native-places of the Chinese land population.

Natives of the Kwang-tung province according to their districts. Birth-places of the Chinese.

Chinese population of the villages of Hongkong.

Chinese population of British Kowloon.

Chinese population of the Registration Districts of Victoria in 1891 and in 1897. Comparison between the population of certain portions of Victoria in 1891 and

in 1897.

Population of Victoria according to Health Districts.

The number of Chinese families in Victoria in the year 1891 and in 1897. Number and description of boats and junks in the waters of the Colony and the

number of persons on each class of boat. Table XXIII. Military and Naval Establishments.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

The Honourable

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY.

Your obedient Servant,

A. W. BREWIN,

In charge of the Census,