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Rh The number of males of all ages is 35,961, and the number of females of all ages is 29,851, giving a proportion of 100 males to 83 females.

The number of males above 14 years of age is 23,224, and the number of females of the same age is 21,192, giving a proportion of 100 males to 91·2 females above 14.

The number of males between 14 and five years of age is 8,368, and the number of females of the same age is 5,041, giving a proportion of 100 males to 60·2 females between 14 and five.

The number of males below five years of age is 4,369, and the number of females of the same age is 3,618, giving a proportion of 100 males to 82·8 females below five.

The number of persons male and female, above fourteen years of age, is 44,416, and the number of persons, male and female, below five, is 7,987, amounting together to 53,403; the number of persons, male and female, between fourteen and five, is 13,409; and the proportion of the population, above fourteen and below five to the population between fourteen and five is as 100 to 25·5.

First.—The number of villages mentioned is the number of actual settlements of people or assemblages of houses inhabited by families at a greater or less distance from similar settlements or assemblages; and it is different from the number of mauzas or villages recorded in the Magistrate and Collector’s office as belonging to the respective thanas. It is probable that the latter were all originally inhabited villages, but through various causes some of them have ceased to be so, while in other instances the number of inhabited villages has increased without any increase in the official enumeration. The difference, therefore, between that enumeration and the ascertained number of inhabited villages occurs in the way