STATISTICS CONCERNING PRIMARY INSTRUCTION_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

According to the Manual del viajero, [154] 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 who attend

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

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1,016 592 98,761 78,351

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1,608 177,113

According to data sent to the Statistics Board of Filipinas, and

compiled by Señor Cavada, [155] the condition of public instruction

in 1870 was as follows.

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