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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 selected
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
