Demography and Health

According to an official census taken in May 1952, the population of Hanuabada and Elevala combined was then 2489. ²⁶ My own group of 159 households of Hohodae and Poreporena contained a population of 1121, or 1142 including incompletelyabsorbed immigrants—that is just under half the total for the villagecluster and as far as I can tell almost complete for the two villages studied. ²⁷ The group does not include one household containing two European males with Papuan, Cinghalese, and half-caste relatives, or another containing people of mixed Papuan-Indian blood, no members of which take part in village affairs. It does, however, include two families whose heads are half-caste Europeans, but who take part in Motu activities, accept village responsibilities, and are almost completely identified with the villagers.