The Hawaiian gazette., 1873-03-12
The Census.


With this number of our paper we is
sue, on a supplement, the result of the
census of 1872. To the statistical stu
dent the table presented will afford much
that viii be interesting that we cannot
expect to present in this article; but to
the many who avoid statistical tables as
dry and Improbable, we hope to Offer
some of the leading features in a form
that viii claim attention.
The census of 1866 gave total Of
$3.50 inhabitants of the Kingdom, divid.
ed as to sex, as follows: males, 1895
females, 2s,564. The census of 1872 gives
total population of 56,s95, composed OF
81 ESQ males and 25,247 females.
The decrease in totals is 6,o62 souls, a
little over II per cent in six years. The
number Of males in excess of females in
1866 was 1891; in 1872 the excess is
found to be 6,403. This difference is ac-
counted for by the immigration of Chi
nese males, that nationality showing an
excess of males in 1872, over 1866, of 1855,
while the females have lost three of their
number.
OF the natives of the Kingdom, includ-
ing halfcastes, the total in 1872 was 81 ;
53l; the total in 1866 was 5s,765, making
a decrease of 1924 in six years. Of this
class we find that the full blood native
has decreased S,Osl, while the half caste
has increased in numbers SAL.
OF foreigners in 1866 were numbered
4.Is4; in 1872 we find 1896, showing a
gain Of I,lT2. Divided as to sex the
foreigners in 1866 numbered 1928 males
and sec females, male excess of 2,462
In 1872 we have 1926 foreign males and
l.O7l females, an excess of 1924 males.
These numbers include Chinese.
The number of married persons in 1866
was 1927, while in 1872 they numbered
but 25,T59 a decrease of 1928. OF I'M
married persons in 1866 there were 3l,672
and 1872 81, ISs.
The population under Is years of age
in 1866 was 1868, while in 1872 it is
$500. OF those between Is and 40 years
in 1866 there were &c, 497; in 1872. 29,56l.
The number over 40 years of age in 1866
was 1874, in 1872, 1886. The percent
age as to the whole population of those
under Is years of age has slightly in
creased the past six years, a most encour-
aging fact.
OF freeholders in 1866 we had 1854,
while in 1872 we have 6,5sO, falling off
of 574. OF PROFESSIONALISM, we had in
1866, 5I2, and of this class we find in
1872, we have $40, a very marked in
crease as TO figures, but how much so as
a matter of fact we cannot determine
Agriculturists numbered in 1866, s,25S,
while in 1872 we find the return 961O.
Plantation laborers in IS66 footed up
5,O25. but in 1872 the returns are 4,772.
Mechanics in 1866 numbered l LAG, and
in 1872 the number had increased to
a,lI5-an encouraging fact.
The census of 1866 included the num-
Der Of cattle, sheep and goats, but their
feature has been left out of the one for
1872.
An additional feature of the census of
1872 is the classification of foreigners as
follows: Chinese, ,93s; American, $50
British, GIG; German, 224; French, So +;
Portuguese, 3s5; Other, 364.
OF foreigners, the Hawaiian born, both
parents being foreigners, we find $40 of
which AIS are males and 4SI females.
A most noticeable fact, established by
this census, is: that of full blood natives
the males are largely in excess, while in
the case of half foreign blood or of full
foreign blood, of Hawaiian birth, the fe-
males are slightly in excess of males.
A reference to the census statistics since
1882 gives the percentage of decrease of
population as follows:
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