?4 12. Education.-No city in India is more advanced as regards education than Bombay. At the Census of 1901 nearly 20 per cent. of the total popula- tion was found to be literate, a proportion which is very high for India. Among Indian born persons the Parsis, as a community, showed the highest percentage of literates among both males and females. Education is rapidly developing in Bombay; there are many elementary schools in the City, a fair number of higher class schools, and the University. A large medical school is attached to the University from which about 100 qualified medical men pass out each year. 13. Occupation.-At the Census of 1906 a total of 588,713 persons were returned as workers and 389,109 as dependents and non-workers. Among the workers 502,544 were males and 86,169 females. It is sometimes imagined, because women may be seen working as coolies, that it is a customary thing in India for women of the poorer classes to become wage earners; but this is not the case in Bombay where only women of special castes and from certain districts seek employment outside their own homes. It is a common idea that children in Bombay augment family incomes considerably by their earnings, but in 1907 a total of only 3,000 children was employed in factories of all kinds in the City. In 1906 Cotton Mills employed 82,867 males and 29,160 females; the average number at work daily was 100,798; and these 112,027 mill-workers supported 55,539 dependents. In the same year there were 98,519 general labourers on the island, including 20,278 female workers who supported 33,308 dependents; domestic and other service maintained 101,017 persons including dependents ; 48,761 persons lived by washing, tailoring, cooking, baking, etc; a total of 113,671 persons obtained their living from trade, by shopkeeping, dealing and hawking; and 54,986 by the carriage of goods or passengers on sea or land. 14. The vast majority of the population of Bombay belong to the working classes, and of these people a very large number exist in a condition of the greatest poverty. Out of the total of 588, 713 actual workers present in Bombay in 1906, only 18,849 persons or just over 3.2 per cent. paid income tax, and of these, only 2,192 were in receipt of more than only Rs. 5,000 per annum. Of persons dependent upon salaries only 2,365 received more than Rs. 2,000 per annum and 3,638 received less than 1,250 per annum. 15. Wages.-Among workers in Bombay, mill-hands are usually supposed to be exceeding well off, but according to the Bombay Gazetteer the average earnings of workers in the spinning and weaving mills is only Rs. 13 per mensem. Men earn Rs. 14 to Rs. 30 a month, women Rs. 71/2 to 9 and children Rs. 5 to 7. The rate of pay of the general labourer varies greatly according to the class of work performed. Coolies employed in heavy work, loading and unloading ships, coaling vessels, etc., may earn as much as from annas 12 to Re. 1 per day ; coolies employed on earth work earn from 6 to 8 annas for men and from 4 to 7 annas for women; those engaged in carrying parcels, etc., earn about 5 annas a day. Municipal biggaries receive Rs. 11a month, male sweepers about Rs. 10 or 11 and female sweepers about Rs. 6. Skilled workmen such as masons and carpenters get an average of about Re. 1 per working day; and smiths, fitters and machinemen from Rs. 20 to Rs. 35 per mensem. Grooms and coachmen generally get about Rs. 12 a month and boatmen and laskars from Rs. 12 to Rs. 15. Domestic servants usually receive either Rs. 3 to Rs. 6 a month and their food or Rs. 9 to 12 without food, but better class servants are paid as much as Rs. 20 and upwards a month. Office peons, chowkidars and messengers usually get from Rs. 10 to Rs. 12 a month and their clothes, and railway porters Rs. 15. Street hawkers of fruit and food usually earn from annas 4 a day up to Rs. 20 a month. The pay of the native clerks and shop assistants varies from Rs. 25 to Rs. 50 and among the more highly paid from Rs. 75 to Rs. 120. 16. Rent.-One of the heaviest items of expenditure in the domestic budget of workers in Bombay is house-rent. About 85 per cent. of the population lives in tenements of only one room and among these a large proportion are forced to share their quarters with others. At the Census in 1901, 284,244 people or more than one-third of the total population were found to be sharing rooms with