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UNITED STATES

The total population in 1910 comprised 47,332,277 males, and 44,639,989 females.

Occupations in 1900 not including Alaska and Hawaii, and soldiers, etc., abroad : —

Class of occupations Male

Female

Total

Agricultural pursuits Professional service Domestic and personal service. Trade and transportation Manufacturing and mechanical pur- suits ......

9,404,429

827,941

3,485,208

4,263,617

5,772,641

23,753,836

977,336

430,597

2,095,449

503,347

1,312,668

5,319,397

10,381,765 1,258,538 5,580,657 4,766,964

7,085,309

Total employed

29,073,233

The total area of Indian reservations in the United States, exclusive of Alaska, was in 1909, 77,446 square miles (in 1890, 162,991 square miles), with an Indian population of 300, 121 (in 1890, 243,524). Extensive reserva- tions are in Oklahoma State, 7,686 square miles, population 117,370 ; Arizona, 30,554 square miles, population 37, 209 ; South Dakota, 9, 722 square miles, population 20,171 ; Montana, 10,418 square miles, population 10,426.

In 1909 the United States spent 17,000,000 dollars on the Indians. There are 56 agencies throughout the States.

In 1910 (not including Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico and other non- contiguous possessions, and persons in the military and naval service stationed abroad) 78,456,380, or 85 '03 per cent, were natives and 13,515,886, or 14*7 per cent., foreign-born.

Origin of the foreign-born white population, 1910 census : —

England. . ..

876,455

Switzerland

124,834

Wales. . ..

82,479

Holland.

120,053

Scotland. , ..

261,034

Mexico.

219,802

Ireland. . ..

1,352,155

Cuba and West Indies ^

23,169

Hungary

495,600

Total United Kingdom

2,572,123

Belgium.

49,397

Germany

2,501,181

Portugal.

57,623

Canada. . ..

1,196,070

Spain

21,977

Sweden.

665,183

China. . ..

333

Norway.

403,858

Japan

198

Russia and Finland

1,732,421

Greece.

101,264

Italy.

1,343,070

Turkey.

91,923

Denmark

181,621

Other foreign countries

151,685

1,174,924

France.

117,236

Total.

. 13,345,545

1 Except Porto Rico.

II. Movement of Population.

There is as yet no national system of registration of births, deaths, and marriages in the United States. The birth-rate computed for 1900, on the basis of infants under 1 year of age living at the close of the Census year and of those who were born and died during that year, was 27 '2 per 1,000, but this is acknowledged to be too low. Death rates are corajjuted from returns for certain areas where local registration records are kept. These areas, now