郵便家屋台帳からみた 19 世紀末のバンコク人口 : 予備的考察(<特集>小林和正教授退官記念号 : 東南アジアの人口)

Abstract

The Bangkok Postal Roll published in 1883 may shed light on some features of the population of the city before the first census was taken. Items which might be analyzed are discussed in this report with some interim figures. The most important feature is the ethnic composition of the city in that period. According to our analysis of 16, 565 household heads registered in the roll, 60.1% were Thais, 36.3% Chinese, and the remaining 3.6% others. The degree of segregation of Chinese within the city is shown. The process of their assimilation may be traced through observation of the variation in addressed titles, types of residence, etc. Other potentially fruitful areas of study include the location of each housing cluster, the occupational structure by ethnic group and sex of the household heads, analysis of the types and ownership of the houses, and identification and analysis of patronship of household heads. In spite of qualitative defects, old registration materials of this kind should be fully utilized to recover lost information of the demographic situation in the near past.