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| Total | 276,995 | 579,741 | 1,830,063 | 2,409,804 | 8.70 |
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The professional, commercial and industrial occupations employ about 1/4th
of the white population. In 1904 whites engaged in such pursuits
numbered respectively only 32,202, 46,750 and 67,278, whereas 99,319
were engaged in domestic employment, and 111,175 in agricultural
employment, while 214,982 (mostly children) were dependants. The natives
follow domestic and agricultural pursuits almost exclusively.

Registration of births and deaths did not become compulsory till 1895.
Among the European population the birth-rate is about 33.00 per
thousand, and the death-rate 14.00 per thousand. The birth-rate among
the coloured inhabitants is about the same as with the whites, but the
death-rate is higher--about 25.00 per thousand.

_Immigration and Emigration_.--From 1873 to 1884 only 23,337 persons
availed themselves of the government aid to immigrants from England to
the Cape, and in 1886 this aid was stopped. The total number of adult
immigrants by sea, however, steadily increased from 11,559 in 1891 to
38,669 in 1896, while during the same period the number of departures by
sea only increased from 8415 to 17,695, and most of this increase took
place in the last year. But from 1896 onwards the uncertainty of the
political position caused a falling off in the number of immigrants,
while the emigration figures still continued to grow; thus in 1900 there
were 29,848 adult arrivals by sea, as compared with 21,163 departures.
Following the close of the Anglo-Boer War the immigration figures rose
in 1903 to 61,870, whereas the departures numbered 29,615. This great
increase proved transitory; in 1904 and 1905 the immigrants numbered
32,282 and 33,775 respectively, while in the same years the emigrants
numbered 33,651 and 34,533. At the census of 1904, 21.68% of the
European population was born outside Africa, persons of Russian
extraction constituting the strongest foreign element.

_Provinces_.--The first division of the colony for the purposes of
administration and election of members for the legislative council was
into two provinces, a western and an eastern, the western being largely
Dutch in sentiment, the eastern chiefly British. With the growth of the
colony these provinces were found to be inconveniently large,