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RELIGION AND INSTRUCTION 1157
The distribution of the population over 10 years of age, according to
occupation on June 1, 1897, was as follows:—
Nature of occupation
Agriculture
Industries and trades ...
Labourers
Clerks
Liberal professions
Religion and instruction J
Public force 2
Domestics
Male
2,049,25S
532,322
184,096
61,577
4,072
150,623
29,201
111,665
Egyptians
Female
21.496
} 4,801
2,553
2,218
—
32,663
Total
2,049,25S
553.S1S
250,474
6,625
158,841
29,201
144,328
Total with occupation ... 3,128,814 63,731 t 3,192,545
With no declared occupa
tion
142,089 ; 3,088,673 3,230,762
Foreigners
Female I Total
— 385
2.371 i 27,865
} US 7,351
ISO : 2,148
2,049 6,410
— «,8.10
2,683 4,395
7,440 55,404
30,229 35,538
Total over 10 years of a;c 3,270,903 3,152,404 ! 6.423,807 53,273 ! 37,669 90,942
Under 10 years 1,612,6118 : 1,585,826 ! 3,198,5:>4 i 10,076 j 10,656 21,632
Total population 4,883,601 ; 4,738,230 ' 9,621,831 64,249 48,325 112,571
1 Under religion are included 2,171 Christian ecclesiastics and Jewish Rabbis, and
113,438 readers of the Koran. The Mussulmans having no clergy, no distinction has been
attempted between religious and teaching bodies. Under instruction are included 40,441
students and school children (over 10), and 4,934 teachers, including Mussulman theological
teachers.
2 Under Public Force are included the Egyptian army, the army of occupation, the
police force, and the forces belonging to foreign men-of-war in the ports.
Of the Egyptian population over 10 years of age, 62'65 pere cent, were
employed in agriculture ; of the foreign population, less than 1 per cent.
Of the Egyptian population, 16'27 per cent, were employed in various industries
and trades ; of the foreign population, 47'85 per cent. Of the total
number employed in the liberal professions, 48 per cent, were foreigners.
The principal towns, with their populations in 1897, are :—Cairo, 570,062 ;
Alexandria, 319,766 ; Tantah, 57,289 ; Port Said, 42,095 ; Assiout, 42,078 ;
Zagazig, 35,715 ; Mansourah, 36,131 ; Damietta, 31,515 ; Fayoum, 33,069 ;
Kena, 27,478.
Beligion and Instruction.
Male
385
25,494
1.172
6,031
1,959
4,361
6,850
1,712
47,964
5,309
In 1897 the population consisted of 8,978,775 Moslems ; 730,162 Christians
(608,446 Copts, 53,479 Orthodox, 56,343 Roman Catholics, and 11,894
Protestants); 25,200 Jews; and 268 others. Thus Moslems formed 92'23
per cent, of the population ; Christians, 7'50 per cent. ; Jews, 0'26 per cent.;
others, 0'01 percent. The highest religious and judicial authorities among
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