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NORWAY

2. Emigration.

Place of Destination

1905

1906

1907

1908

1909

1910

17,361 1.513

1911

United States. British North America. Other Non - European countries

19,638 1,386

35

20,449 1,476

42

20,615 1,490

7,850 610

15,237 880

11,122 1,304

80

37

85

88

51

'^ Total.

21,059

21,967

22,135

8,497

10,152

18,912

12,477

III. Ppjncip.u. Towns.

At the census taken December 1, 1910, the mimber of towns with a population of above 100,000 was one, above 20,000 four, above 10,000 ten, above 5,000 seven. The population of the principal towns, December 1, 1910, was : —

Kristiania Bergen. Trondhjeni Stavanger Drammen

241,834

76,867 45,335 37,261 24.895

Kristiansand

Fredrikstad

Kristiansund

Haugesund

Fredrikshald

15,291 15,597 13,201 12.9fe7 1],992

Aalesund

Skien Sari^sborg Arendal. Larvlk.

13,858 11,856 10,542 10,315 10.105

Religion and Instruction.

The evangelical Lutheran religion is the national Church and the' onlj one endowed by the State. Its clergy are nominated by the King. All religions (except Jesuits) are tolerated. Ecclesiastically Norway is divided into 6 softer (bishoprics), 84 Provstier (provostships, or archdeaconries),. 498 Prcestegjcld (clerical districts). In 1910 there were 62,553 dissenters, including 2,046 Roman Catholics, 10,986 Methodists, 7,659 Baptists, 714 Mormons, 143 Quakers. The Roman Catholics are under a Vicar Apostolic resident at Kristiania.

Education is compulsory, the school age being from six and a half in towns and seven in the country to fourteen. In 1909 (the latest date for which there are statistics) there were in the country 5,941 public elementary schools with 279,823 pupils, and in towns 2,978 classes with 94,609 pupils ; the amount expended on both being 13,669,857 kroner, of which 4,557,498 kroner was granted by the State, the rest being provided locally. There are 90 seconiary schools : 14 public, 50 communal, 26 private, Avith 17,861 pupils, in 1909-10. Most of the secondary schools are mixed, 12 are for girls alone, all private. Besides these, 98 communal and private schools have 3,736 pupils. There were in 1909, 6 public normal schools and 4 private, with 1,046 students. Kristiania has a University, attended in 1911 by 1,550 students. In the financial year 1910-11 it had its own income, 112,374 kroner, and a State subsidy of 1,207,852 kroner.

There are 10 schools for abnormal children, deaf, blind, and feeble-ininded. There are 9 reformatory schools for neglected children ; two receive only children who require rigorous treatment ; the otbers, children against whom there have been no serious charges. In the stricter reformatories children- may be kept from the age of 12 to that of 21 years ; in the more lenient, from their 6th to their 18th year of age. The number of children ii> reformatories on September 30, 1911, was 341 boys and 87 girls. There-