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The following table shows the population of Bombay as found in different
Census years:


Year.
	Male
Female.
Females to
Total.



1,000 males.

1872
399,716
244,689
612
644,405
1881
464,763
308,433
664
773,196
1891
518,093
303,671
586
821,176
1901
479,786
296,220
617
776,006
1906
612,965
364,811
595
977,822

The death-rates calculated upon these populations have been as follows:-

Year.
Population of the City
of Bombay.
Total deaths.
Percentage.
1872 
 644,405, Census 1872
18,990 
29.46
1873 

15,665 
24.30
1874 

15,496
24.04
1875 

18,734
29.07
1876 

20,783
32.25
1877 

33,511 
52.00
1878 

26,999
49.90
1879 

22,527 
34.96
1880 

21,146 
32.81
1881 
773,196, Census 1881
21,856
28.27
1882 

20,468 
26.47
1883 

23,530 
30.43
1884

22,544 
29.15
1885 

21,850 
28.26
1886 

20,074 
25.96
1887 

20,513
26.53
1888 

22,421 
29.00
1889 

23,378 
30.24
1890 

20,534 
26.56
1891 
821,764, Census 1891 
23,847 
29.01
1892 

26,518 
32.26
1893 

23,142 
28.16
1894 

27,330 
32.25
1895 

25,081 
30.52
1896 

33,451 
40.81
1897 

47,896 
58.28
1898 

51,961 
63 23
1899 

56,434 
68.67
1900 

79,350 
96.56
1901 
776,006, Census 1901 
59,495
77.66
1902 

48,414 
62.38
1903 

50,513 
65.39
1904 

42,676
54.99
1905 

47,712 
61.48
1906 
977,822, Census 1906
52,874 
56.07
1907 

38,627 
39.56
1908 . 

38,271 
39.13
1909 

34,878
35.66
1910 

34,933 
35.71

 37. But the results obtained by attempting to calculate death-rates upon the
census figures in Bombay are practically worthless for the following reasons:
 (1) It is an exceedingly difficult thing to obtain an accurate census
 in Bombay.
 (2) The census is usually conducted in the middle of the dry weather
 when the yearly influx of people is at its height; and the number present
 then is far in excess of those to be found a few months later. The mean of
 the population present in the City during the dry and the wet seasons is
 probably not less than 100,000 below the census population.