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TE BcopPE AND CHARACTER OF THE ENQUIRY 
16. The actual number of cotton mills in Bombay City in 1926 was 
83 which number included the Turkey Red Dye Works of the E. D, 
Sassoon United Mills. The Millowners’ Association, Bombay, have 
recently excluded the Turkey Red Dye Works from their List of Mills 
in Bombay City which now stands at 82. Out of these 82 mills seven 
mills were not working in the month of July 1926. Two mills out of 59 
mills in Ahmedabad City were not working in May 1926. All five mills 
in Sholapur City were working during the period of the Census for that 
centre. The following table shows the number of mills included in the 
Enquiry and the number of workers returned by the selected mills in 
comparison with the total number of working mills and the number of 
workers employed at each centre during the census month. The figures 
for the number of workers employed are based on information published 
by the Bombay Millowners’ Association :(— 
Centres of Enquiry 
[tems of Information 
Number of cotton mills working during 
the month selected for the Census 
Number of hands employed in the 
working mills _ 
Number of mills selected for the 
Census . o 
Number of hands returned by the se- 
lected mills .. ve ve 
Proportion of number of hands returned 
to number emploved 
Bombay Town| 
and Island 
Ahmedabad 
HB 
J 
1.465.653 
34.502 
3 
3M 
50,421 
16.392 
Per cent, Per cent. 
4B 20-32 
Sholapur 
18,003 
4.783 
Per cent. 
26-33 
A list of the mills that supplied information is given in Appendix A. 
AcE AND SEX DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORKPEOPLE COVERED 
BY THE CENSUS 
17. The 1921 and 1923 Enquiries covered * big lads ” and children in 
addition to adult male and female operatives in all centres. For the 
purposes of the 1926 Enquiry no separate figures were called for for 
“ big lads ”’ not only because it was found that this term was a misnomer 
inasmuch as it covered all age groups but also because “big lads” 
work for the same number of hours as other adult operatives. With 
regard to children, no half-timers were employed in any of the nineteen 
mills selected for the 1926 Census in Bombay City. Figures for children 
were, however, returned for this Enquiry both from Ahmedabad and from 
Sholapur., The age and sex distribution of the number of operatives