Excerpt from Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, Vol. 3: For the Year Ended June 30, 1897 The census taken by the police department during March, 1897, showed a population of 27 7 7 82, made up of whites and colored. Approximately, therefore, 32 per cent of the entire population is colored. Practically the same ratio prevails during the earlier periods of life as in the population as a whole, as 34 per cent of those under 7 years of age, and the same per cent of those under 15 years, belong to the colored race. The annual average increase since the police census of December, 1894, has been per cent for the whites, per cent for the colored, and per cent for the entire population. While the rate of increase for the colored remains very much below. That for the whites, the falling off in the rate has been slightly greater among the latter. Of the entire population. 47 per cent is male and 53 per cent female. As between the races we find among the whites 49 per cent male and 51 per cent female, while among the colored the corresponding figures are 45 per cent and 55 per cent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.