The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-10-12
THE CENSUS.

We have now before us the eomnlete
report OF the General Superintendent Of
the Census OF 1890. 1t is pamphlet OF
II pages, OF which 48 with 10 inserted
tables refer to the Census proper, i. e.
the population of the kingdom as to sex.
age nationality, etc., the remaining %
pages constituting an appendix of sundry
statistics, sanitary, fiscal, shipping, pro-
duce, etc.
AS we noticed the preliminary report
on August Is we shall now only briefly
refer to the more general results of the
census, and remark more particularly
on some of the special facts revealed in
this account of the inner life and welfare
OF the people.
we find the total population of these
Islands on December 2S, 1890, was 58.714
males and 1926 females, or, together
o9'99O, as compared with $3.50 males
ana Z9,O39 females in 1884; a nett gain
OF 9,4l2 individuals. But the Hawaiians
nave lost 5,57S, the Chinese 1888 and
DINER natlonalities in smaller numbers.
making total loss of 1O,32O against a
1otal gain OF 1872, giving the nett gain
as above.
The nationality which has increased
most largely is of course the Japanese
with 2,244, but these are mostly immi-
grants; the "half-castes' have increased
I,968, and the Hawaiian born foreigners
Oy 0,455, OF whom more than half. 81 OF
per cent, are Portuguese.
Some interesting physiological details
are given on page 40, where we find that
taxing only the females who have borne
children, the Portuguese rank first with
percentage of 1890; the Natives come |
sixth with only 81 80, but on the other |
hand, counting the average number of
cnlloren borne by each mother, while |
the Portuguese again head the LIST with |
an average of 483, the Natives come |
next with an average of 4 20, the half
castles third, 4.02, the Chinese ninth |
with 2.73, and the Japanese last with
I.56. The British average 3.45, the AM
orleans 2.62, Germans 3.97.
Now, coming to ascertain the number
OF children surviving in proportion to the
whole number borne, the statistics are
most startling and the various national
tiles appear in an entirely different
order.
Inc Chinese, who stand only ninth in
the average of children per mother.borne
come first in respect to the number sp,-
vlvlng with percentage of 1921. The
Japanese, with the lowest average of
births, are second with survivors, viz.
oo.|O per cent. Hawaiian-born foreign
third, 1888, then German, British,
american; the Portuguese, highest in
oirth-rate, are tenth; to the last, the
natives, OF whose births, only 54 OF per
cent, are reported as survivors. Indeed.
apply this test to the city of Honolulu, !
We ind only 1927 of the native babies :
surviving. 1t must be said, however. G
hat we cannot find specified the age h
Which child must reach to be classified $
8 surviving" unless it be that one is !
lot reckoned in that category unless it Il
ass into the class of "over Is years of a
ge." in which case all the dangers and fc
lseases of youth or adolescence, as we'll II
mere infantile ailments, have to be
=
In the table giving the numbers of
lose returned as without occupation /" q
ere are no less than 45O7, or 34.51 per q