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representative a nature as possible, and that all classes interested should be ade-
quately represented. But, as has already been explained, the action of the Local
Governments and Administrations was in almost all cases supplemented by the
Commission, who held themselves free to invite the evidence of persons or asso-
ciations whose acquaintance with the subject was brought to their notice, or
who seemed on any ground to be able to throw any light on the subject.

Witnesses of the third class were of course not selected, but were invited in
the most public way, as has been already explained, to come forward and lay
their views before the Commission, should they desire to do so.

The following table shows the number of witnesses in each province whose
evidence was received by the Commission:—

Witnesses in British Provinces whose evidence was received by the Commission.

OFFICIAL.

NON-OFFICIAL.

Province.

CIVIL
OFFICERS.

MEDICAL
OFFICERS.

PRIVATE
MEDICAL
PRACTI-

Zamindars and Planters, etc.

Persons engaged in trade.

TIONERS.

Superior.

Subordinate.

Superior.

Subordinate.

Practising after Eu-
ropean methods.

Practising after
Native methods.

Professional men.

Missionaries.

Associations.

Others..

Total.

Bengal

44

55

21

11

12

15

40

22

5

9

6

11

251

Assam

17

1

6

5

2

6

5

1

3

1

1

48

N.-W. P. and Oudh

44

29

21

25

6

52

45

6

1

1

17

17

264

Punjab

18

13

6

8

2

7

12

2

4

6

10

7

95

Central Provinces

16

18

6

3

1

21

4

3

12

84

Madras

42

36

17

20

1

6

13

9

17

2

15

15

193

Bombay

30

32

13

14

7

4

2

4

1

2

5

4

118

Sind

4

10

3

6

1

2

1

1

1

6

35

Berar

6

11

9

2

2

1

2

3

36

Ajmere-Merwara.

1

1

1

1

1

2

7

Coorg

2

2

Baluchistan

1

2

4

7

Burma

34

2

9

3

1

4

53

Total

257

210

112

102

34

87

144

55

34

24

75

59

1,193

This list comprises all the persons and associations in British provinces
whose evidence came before the Commission, whether they were examined orally
or not, and whether they were specially summoned or invited to give evidence or
volunteered their evidence. A nominal list of the witnesses in each province