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1914).
JAINA GAZETTE.
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STATEMENT No. (2).
tion
Caste.
Total number of deaths
during 1911. 1912. 1913.
|Popu
Jains
20,460
1,414 1,391
1,349 1,159
Brahmins
53,655
1,438 1,265 1,242 8,321
Parsis
1,314
1,145
50,931 179,346
Mahome dans
9,097
6,996
STATEMENT No. (3).
Caste.
Population.
Percentage of death-rate
per 1,000 during 1911. 1912. 1913.
Jains
70-28
69.11
65.93
20,460 53,656
Brahmins
23.57
25.92
21.60
50,931
24.38
22:48
Parsis Mabomedans
25.79 50-72
179,346
46:39
39.00
If the above two statements are glanced at carefully it will be seen that the total number of deaths and percentage of the Jains per 1,000 as compared with other communities in consideration of the population of each caste in Bumbay show the death-rate among Jains to be the highest and there seems no better proof than the figures quoted above to find out the reason as to how so many deaths occur every year among the Jaips in Bombay. It is interesting to note that on an average of the calculations for the last three years quoted above, the Jain population, which only number a little above twenty thousand
suffered by 68.44% of deatlis per 1,000, while the Brahmins Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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