RELIGION

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Population, 1911

White , Colour- 1 Total

Popnlritinn.

1918

White

Over 10,000 and less than 20,000—

6. Pietermaritzburs .

7. East London S. Benoni . 9. Kimberley

10. Genniston

11. Bloemfontein

12. Krngersdorp 13 Boksburg

N'atat

. Transvaal Cape

Transvaal Orange Free State Transvaal Tr.insvaal

14,899 I $,639 , 17,507 15,579 : 14,720 13,132 i 11,529 I

38.746 IS, MS

32,0a9

M ■-.: 5o, 1 44 48,628

17,6*3

16,196 15,631 13.603

Occupations. — The census returns for 1911 showed the occupations of the people to be as follows : — Professional, 59,721 ; domestic, 290,560; commercial, 81,627; agricultural, 192, 424 ; industrial, 143,255; indefinite, K dependants, 492,959 ; unspecified, 4,951. There were 26,258 white persons, of whom 294 were females, who were engaged in the general or local government or the defence of the Union of South Africa. There were some 842,000 persons of all races employed in the mining industry of the Union ; of these 47,000 were Europeans.

Migration. — 1919. Arrivals, 27,106, departures, 24. 7

Vital Statistics. — The following table gives the total numbers of mar- riages, births and deaths registered in the Union for recent years for all races : —

Year

Marriages

Births

Deaths

Year

Marriages

Births

Deaths

1913 1915 1916

23,760

22,630 24. $12

102,234 10G.091

64,466

t'4,711

1917 191S 1919

25,533 23,796

102,369

66,117

The following table shows the marriage, birth and death rates (based on revised estimates of population, according to census of 1918) of white persons, per 1,000 of the white papulation only : —

1913 1915 191ii

Marriage rate

9 08 8-34 843

Birth rate

31 -6S

20-33 20-33

i;.:th ran

Death rate

10-26 17 17 11-90

Religion.

Religions. — The results of the European oensus of 1918 as regards religious are as follows : —Europeans : Dutch Churches, 800,178 ; Anglicans, 265,149 ; Presbyterian, 60,471;' Congregationalists, 13,176: Wesleyans, 91,199; Lutherans, 20,320: Roman Catholics, 55,552; Baptists, 15,507; Jews. 58,741 ; others and unspecified, 41,495: total, 1,421,731. Non-Europeans as at the census of 1911 ; Dutch Churches, 204,702 ; Anglican, 276,849 ; Presbyterians, 72.114; Independents (Congregationalists), 173,982; \Yesle\-

ans, 456,017; African Methodist Episcopal, 59,103 ; Lutherans. 195,308;