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 RELIGION — INSTRUCTION — CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS 227

King William's Town, 5,685 ; East London, 17,592; Graaff-Rcinet, 3,886; Worcester, 3,618 ; Uitenhage, 7,103 ; Oudtshoorn, 5,131.

Of the European population in 1911, 24,245 were professional, 1-53,925 domestic, 37,796 commercial, 87,795 agricultural, 50,031 industrial, 232,730 were dependants, and 5,855 indefinite and unspecified. Of the coloured population the great majority are engaged in agricultural or domestic employ- ments.

Marriages, births and deaths in six years, so far a* registered : —

Years

Marriages

Birtha

Death*

1913;pre-war

12,133

58,787

39,532

1915

11,069

59,344

37,961

1916

11,344

57,658

40,509

1917

11,814

55,529

41,023

1918

11,514

55,870

88,024

1910

14,227

47,770 *

45,784

Religion.— In 1911 there were 1,437,688 Christians— 479,825 Dutch Churches, 282,619 Anglican Communion (including Church of England, Church of Province "of South Africa, Church of Ireland, Episcopal Church of Scotland, Episcopalian >, 74,005 Presbyterians, 147,378 Indepen- dents or Congregationalism, 285,283 Weslevans, 19,161 other Methodists, 21,506 Lutherans, 21,167 Moravians, 22,953' Rhenish Mission, 12,234 othei Lutherans, 13,704 Baptists, 35,934 Roman Catholics, 21,919 other Christians. Mohammedans 24,139, Jews 16,744. Of no religion, 1,077,998, of whom 1,047,233 were natives.

Instruction. — Local school administration is conducted by school boards and school committees, the unit of administration being the school district. There are now 121 such districts, each under the control of a school board, two-thirds of whose members are elected by the ratepayers and one-third nominated by Government and local authority. Boards have the power, subject to the Department, to establish and maintain schools ; subject to Departmental approval, further, they have the general financial control of schools under their jurisdiction, including the fixing of scales of fees and the hire of buildings. They also have power to enforce school attendance and in certain cases to allow free education. Every public school under a board is ordinarily managed by a committee elected by the parents or, in default, nominated by the board. Such committees have the general supervision of the school, and the selection of the teaching staff also rests with them. Giants in support of education are provided from the general revenue, the sources of revenue in the case of school boards being : Central government, 6976 per cent.; local education rate, 466 per cent, ; school fees, 25 "17 per cent.; other sources, "41 per cent. Aided schools, June 30, 1918, 4,794. There are 121,910 Europt-an pupils and 149,985 non-European. Total numb*r of teachers 9,672.

Provincial expenditure on education (excluding Higher Education, which is under control of the Central Government), 1915-16, 917,856/. ; 1916-17, 976,2947. ; 1917-18, 1,166,0597. ; 1918-19, 1,435,3857.

Charitable Institutions, Hospitals, Pauperism. — In the hospitals

and kindred charitable institutions 18,466 in-patients, and 95,682 at

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