EURASIAN
226
Number of workers. | |
---|---|
Priests, ministers, etc. | 41 |
Tramway officials | 35 |
Sellers of hides and bones, shoe and boot makers | |
tanners, etc. | 33 |
Local and Municipal service | 30 |
Shipping clerks, etc. | 29 |
Brokers and agents | 28 |
Lawyers' clerks | 26 |
Merchants and shop-keepers | 24 |
Landholders | 24 |
Watch and clock makers | 23 |
Money-lenders, etc. | 22 |
Military clerks | 21 |
Blacksmiths | 18 |
Chemists and druggists | 16 |
Prisoners | 15 |
Pleaders | 12 |
Brass and copper smiths | 12 |
Inmates of convents, etc. | 11 |
Ship's officers, etc. | 10 |
Prostitutes | 10 |
Authors, editors, etc. | 10 |
Cultivating tenants | 8 |
Club managers, etc. | 8 |
Hotel-keepers, etc. | 7 |
Minor occupations | 363 |
As bearing on the subject of Eurasian marriage, I am enabled, through the courtesy of a railway chaplain and the chaplain of one of the principal churches in the city of Madras, to place on record the following statistics abstracted from the registers. It may, in explanation, be noted that M indicates the bridegroom, F the bride, and W widow or widower remarriage: —