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GERMAN EMPIKE : — PRUSSIA

the nature of the administrative division. The matters dealt with are such as poor-relief, roads, light railwa} s, &c., but in rural districts they include agricultural interests, and in towns, education, sick-insurance, valuation, col- lection of certain taxes, rausteriug of recruits, management of gas, water, and electric works, &c. The Crown controls the administration of all the adminis- trative areas.

Area and Population.

I, PuOGltESS AND PeESBNT CONDITION.

Including Helgoland.

Provinces

Area : Square

Population

Pop. per Square

Miles 14,786

1910

1905

Mile, 1910

East Prussia (Ostpreussen)

2,064,175

2,030,176

139-6

West Prussia (Westprensseii).

9,861

1,703,474

1,641,874

172-7

Berlin

24

2,071,257

2,040,148

86,279-0

Braadenburg ....

15,383

4,092,616

3,531,856

266-0

Ponierania (Pommerii)

11,631

1,716,921

1,684,345

147-5

Posen. . . •.

11,190

2.099,831

1,986,6.37

187-6

yilesia (Sclilesieii)

15,569

5,225,962

4,942,725

335-6

Saxony (Sachsen)

9,752

3,089,275

2,979,249

315-7

Schleswig-Holstein l

7,338

1,621,004

1,504,248

220-7

Hanover (Hannover)

14,870

2,!-t42,436

2,759,245

197-2

Westphalia (Westfalen).

7,804

4,125,096

3,618,090

528-6

Hesse-Nassau ....

6,062

2,221,021

2,070,052

366-3

Rhine (Rheinprovinz)

10,423

7,121,140

6,436,337

683-1

Hoheuzollern ( Hohenzollern sche

Lande)

441 135,134

71,011

68,282

141-0

Total ....

40,165,219

37,293,264

224-0

Development of Prussia since 1875 : —

Year

1875 1890 1900 1905 1910

Area in Sq. Miles Population

134,179 134,537 134,622 135,134 135,134

25,742,404 29,957,367 84,472,509 37,293,264 40,165,219

Average per

Percentage of

Sq. Mile

Annual Increase

191-8

_

222-7

1-1

256-1

1-5

275 9

1-59

297-0

1-54

The population living in towns and that not in towns in 1905 and 1910 were as follows : —

—

1910

1905 1

Annual increase per cent. 1905-1910.

Town population

Country population ....

18,963,785 21,201,434

17,378,965 19,914,299

1 74

1-25

1 On the same areas as iu 1910.