Note 62 — Chapter VI

Nothing shows the importance of the agricultural interest in Roumania so effectively as an analysis of the occupations of the people. This is thoroughly trustworthy, as it is computed from the number of taxpayers, and the following is a table condensed from the data supplied to us by the authorities at Bucarest:—

Agriculturists 684,168 heads of families

Artisans and labourers 83,061

Traders 30,117

Officials (fonctionnaires) 22,811

Professors and teachers 6,066

Medical and legal professions and druggists 995

Artists (meaning probably persons engaged in the arts) 2,156

Priests, monks, and religieuses 18,452

Various 125,815

Of the total heads of families 973,941, seventy per cent.

therefore are agriculturists.