INDIA'S MANY MILLIONS.
The population of India, according to the last census, quoted in an abstract just published by the India Office, was 294,3(U,05G, a .growth ef, ten millions since 1891, and of forty millions since 1881. In 1897-8 the gross revenue was fifty-six and a quarter millions, and in 1907-8 it was seventy-one millions, with a cash balance of eighteen and a half millions. Every year an average of about 17,1>00 wild animals are dastro>ed, and about 70,000 snakes, slaughter justified by the fact that 25,000 people are killed every year by snakes and wild animals, snakes alone killing 22,000. In 1898 the recorded deaths from plague nmbered 173,828, and in 1904, the total had risen to 1,148,993. Last year was the healthiest on record except 1899 and 1900, only 149,938 deaths being due to plague. .Since 1896 plague has caused the deaths of six and a quarter million people.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9643, 8 November 1909, Page 4
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151INDIA'S MANY MILLIONS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9643, 8 November 1909, Page 4
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