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Years Births Deaths Net Increase
1892-1900 766 470 296
1901-1910 556 283 273
1911-1920 777 664- 113
1921-1926 451 315 136
Thus there was a net increase during every decade.
This, then, fails to explain the diminution in the size of
the total population that occurred in the first and third
decades.
Emigration : The only other factor that reduces the
size of a population is emigration-. On making a minute
enquiry about emigration we found interesting informa-
tion. In 1900-01—a disastrous famine year—when the
census was taken, a good many people usually residing in
the village had been out in search of employment. This
explains why the figure of the size of the population in
this year seems to have dwindled from that of the previous
census. The diminution in the third decade was also due
to a similar reason as we shall presently see. During
the third decade however there was an additional cause
that materially affected the size of the population. It
was the outbreak of influenza and famine in 1918-19 which
took a heavy toll of life in this village. This is obvious
from the relatively small net increase in this decade.
The important role played by the factor of emigration
is again obvious when we consider why there was
such an abnormal increase in the population of 1926-27
over that of 1921. There are two circumstances which
explain this apparent abnormality.
(i) The census figure for 1921 is the result of a de facto
census, that is to say, only those people who were found
on the census night in the village were regarded as its
population. Our figure is the result of a de jure census,
Jthat is, we have regarded as its population all those who
legally belong to the village, irrespective of the considera-
tion whether they were within or without the village at
the time when we took the census. This meant a great
difference between the two figures because of
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