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Including the city, there is a total population of 2,657,648 souls, dwelling in 432,601 houses. The following table illustrates the distribution of the population in each Police Circle and Subdivision, with its pressure per square mile, etc. I have reproduced it verbatim from the Census Report of 1872, except in one obvious error; and although several mistakes in details and averages seem to have crept into it as printed in the Report, the general results may be accepted as correct. I have thought it better to reprint the table as it stands in the Official Report, without attempting to correct the details. The subdivisional figures will be given again on a subsequent page, when I come to treat of the Administrative Divisions of the District, but they may here be exhibited as a whole. For the District, the returns may be accepted as correct. The Census of Calcutta city proved to be inaccurate, and has been condemned.