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232 Fourth.—One other step is necessary to arrive at a definite conclusion respecting the number and proportion of the instructed and uninstructed juvenile population, viz., by adding, together the number of children receiving domestic and school instruction, and deducting the aggregate from the total number of children of the teachable age. The number of children given below as receiving school instruction include those who in the city of Moorshedabad and in the thanas specially mentioned receive instruction whether in Bengali, Hindi, Persian, English, orphans or girls’ schools, and exclude the students in Sanscrit and Arabic schools as being generally above 14 years of age and belonging to the adult population. The students of the Nizamat College in the city of Moorshedabad are also considered as belonging to the adult population:—

The last column of the preceding table expresses, as far as mere number and proportion can express, the sum and substance of this report. It shows that, in the Culna thana of the Burdwan district, where the amount of instruction is greater than in any other of the localities mentioned, of every 100 children of the teachable age, 16 only receive any kind or degree of instruction, while the remaining 84 are destitute of all kinds and all degrees of it; and that, in the Bhawara thana of the Tirhoot district, where the amount of instruction is less than in any other of the localities mentioned, of every 100 children of the teachable age, 2 only receive any kind or degree of instruction, while the remaining 97 are destitute of all kinds and all degrees of it. The intermediate