The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 45, 1736 / Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

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STATISTICS CONCERNING PRIMARY INSTRUCTION

According to the Manual del viajero,[2] published in 1877, there are in all Filipinas, at the account of the State, 1,016 schools of primary instruction for boys, and 592 for girls, 98,761 attending the former, and 78,352 the latter, as follows:

	Schools		Pupils whoattend
	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls
In Luzón	599	244	44,416	28,805
Adjacent islands	49	28	3,934	1,970
Visayas	302	284	43,281	41,193
Mindanao	66	36	7,070	6,384
	1,016	592	98,761	78,351
	1,608		177,113

According to data sent to the Statistics Board of Filipinas, and compiled by Señor Cavada,[3] the condition of public instruction in 1870 was as follows.