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:For 1873, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/n3/mode/2up Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/176/mode/2up Civil Establishments , commencing with an Index] page 177, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/186/mode/2up Singapore] page 187, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/176/mode/2up Penang] page 209, [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.73418/page/222/mode/2up Malacca] page 223.
:''Straits Settlements Blue Book'' for [https://seadelt.net/Documents/?ID=445 1922] and [https://seadelt.net/Documents/?ID=332 1932] "Sea-Delt SouthEast Asian DEvelopment in the Long Term". Pdfs. Also 1888, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1910 which are also available on Archive.org.
:''Straits Settlements Blue Book'' for [https://seadelt.net/Documents/?ID=445 1922] and [https://seadelt.net/Documents/?ID=332 1932] "Sea-Delt SouthEast Asian DEvelopment in the Long Term". Pdfs. (Also 1888, 1904, 1907, 1908, 1910 which are also available on Archive.org).:National Archives of Singapore has many editions catalogued as ''Straits Settlements Blue Books''. In the [https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/private_records/advanced-search Advanced Search] for the title use search term Blue Books. All editions 1870-1938 appear to be available to read online (but download does '''not''' appear possible) and additionally there is [https://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/private_records/record-details/38a7dde8-f14a-11e3-a330-0050568939ad ''Colony of Singapore Blue Book 1946'']. Unfortunately the book reader is not easy to use. To increase size of font use your mouse wheel , and then an adjustment bar appears. To navigate to a particular page, use the thumbnails. The catalogue includes editions from 1867, but editions prior to 1870 do not appear to have been digitised. There is a Search option within each text, and the Search link previously mentioned also seems able to be used to search the texts of the entire collection using keywords.:Other editions of the ''Blue Books of Statistics'' are available at the National Archives, Kew record series [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C4468 CO 277] 1867-1939, part of "Records of Local Bodies and Other Colonial Miscellanea" commencing with CO 277/1 for 1867. (Also CO 939/1 for 1946, for Singapore).
*''Political and Statistical Account of the British Settlements in the Straits of Malacca: Viz. Pinang, Malacca, and Singapore, with a History of the Malayan States on the Peninsula of Malacca'' by T J Newbold 1839 Google Books [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=OQ8PAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2E0PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Volume II]
*Straits Settlements, [http://books.google.com/books?id=AbYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA718 page 718] ''A Gazetteer of Southern India: with the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore'' by Pharoah &Co 1855 Google Books
