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Although it is not expressly stated in the returns, yet it seems to have been generally understood that all who had entered on their sixteenth year were reckoned as men and women, and all who had not completed their fifteenth year were reckoned as children. The following is an abstract of the results thus obtained:—

1.—The total population of the district is 1,064,956 persons of both sexes and all ages.

2.—The total number of families is 155,454.

3.—The average number of persons in a family is thus 6,721, or rather more than 6. It should be noted here that the term translated family or house is often employed to describe an aggregate of families, as when two or more married brothers live in a collection of huts or buildings having one enclosure, one entrance, and one court.

4.—The number of males above 15 years of age is 342,629.

5.—The number of females above 15 years of age is 347,545.

6.—The number of children below 16 years of age is 374,782.

7.—The number of Hindus is 394,272.

8.—The number of Musalmans is 670,684.