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URUGUAY

Departments

Area, square miles

Population Deo. 1819

Pop. per square mile

Salto (Salto).

San Jose (San Jose).

4,865 2,688 3,560 8,112

3,682

77,391 62,966 57,898 62,581 42,313

154 22-5

Soriano (Mercedes). Tacuarembo (San Pructuoso) Treinta y Tres (Treinta y Tres)

15-2 7-8 10-9

Total

,462,887

72,153

19-2

The departments enjoy ample autonomy, eacli haying its Local Government Board and Representative Assembly, with extensive control over local expenditure, taxation, and public works.

In 1914 the Uruguayan and Brazilian Boundary Commissions drew up the documents respecting three islands belonging to Uruguay, to be called Socorro, Jacinto, and Denis..

The results of the census of October, 1908, showed a population of 1,042,686 (530,508 males and 512,178 females). Of this total, 181,222 were foreigners, 62,357 being Italian, 54,885 Spanish, 27,789 Brazilian, 18,600 Argentine, 8,341 French, 1,324 British, 1,406 Swiss, 1,112 German, and 5,408 of other nationalities.

The population of Montevideo City on November 30, 1920, was 361,950. Of the other cities, Paysandu had 26,000 inhabitants; Salto, 30,000; Mercedes, 23,000.

Births, deaths, and marriages for three years. The births and deaths are exclusive of still-births.

Years | Living-Births

Still-Births

Marriages

Deaths

8urplUS of Births over Deaths

1917 36,752

1918 38,914

1919 39,307

1,264 1,391 1,291

6,278 17,343 6,843 20,009 7,532 18,904

19,404 18,905 20,403

Of the living births in 1919, 11,150 were illegitimate. Divorces 170 in 1917 ; 195 in 1918 ; 191 in 1919.

For five years the arrivals and departures by sea at Montevideo were : —

1915

1916

1917 173,421

1918

1919

Immigrants.

212,236 203,233

220,527

180,687 177,254

158, 1S6

Emigrants

204,525

164,886

145,2*7

Of the immigrants landing in Montevideo in 1919, 10,778 were Spanish ; 5,079 Italian; 5,562 Brazilian ; 2,331 French; 1,678 German; and 3,741 English.

Religion and Instruction.

State and church are separated ; and there is complete religious liberty. The religion professed by the majority of tho inhabitants is Roman Catholic. The archbishopric of Montevideo has 2 suffragan bishops in Salto and Melo. The 1908 census showed 430,095 Catholics, 12,232 Protestants, and 45,470 unspecified.

Primary education is obligatory. In 1919 there were 995 public schools with 106,905 enrolled pupils. There were also 188 private schools with 19,410 pupils. Evening courses for adults were attended (1919) by 6,513 pupils (1,951 illiterates).