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 AREA AND POPULATION.

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Principal Towns

Population

Principal Towns

Population

Naples

447,065

Florence

114,363

Milan

242,457

Bologna

109,395

Turin

204.715

Messina.

103,324

Rome ....

201,161

Leghorn

96,471

Palermo

194,463

Catania

68,810

Genoa

127,986

Ferrara

67,9S8

The population of the city of Venice and its dependent islands, inscribed on the registers of the municipality on the 31st December 1864, amounted to 122,942 inhabitants, composed of

Native Males, present 54,212

„ Females „. 59J072

„ Males, absent. . . . . . .1.521

,, Females ,,. . . . . . . 913

115,71!

Strangers ......... 7 224

Total .... 122,942 -The number of inhabitants of the city of Rome is ascertained every year at Easter, in an enumeration made by means of the parish priests, who keep the registers of souls. At Easter, 1869 the population of Rome was 220,532. Exclusive of 10,207 soldiers' 328 prisoners, 637 ' heterodox persons,' and 4,682 Jews, the popu- lation was returned at 204,678. The latter total comprised 105,569 men and 99,109 women; 7,480 clergy and ' religious,' and 197.198 belonging to the Civil State. The births were stated as 5,276, or 23-9 per 1,000 of population; the deaths at 5,874, or 26-6 per 1,000; the marriages at 1,564, or 7"1 per 1,000 during the year past. The returns of ] 869 stated that there were in the city of Rome 22 seminaries and ecclesiastical colleges, containing 841 persons; 61 religious institutions for men, containing 2,959, and 72 for women, containing 2,256 persons; nine lay colleges, con- taining 298 persons; 68 conservatoires, nunneries, &c, containing 1,738 persons; seven charity institutions for men, containing 878, and 12 for women, containing 1,216 persons.

The population of the States comprising the present kingdom of Italy, with the exception of Venetia and the Roman territory, amounted to, in the year 1788 : —

Sardinian States ...... 3,200 000

Lombardy

Tuscany.

Parma and Modena

Bomagna.

Umbria and the Marches

Naples and Sicily

Total

1,100.000

1,000,000

570,000

140,000

620,000

6,000,000

12,630,000