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 AREA, POPULATION, AND INSTRUCTION'

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which 145 square miles is water area. Census population on Jan. 1. 1920, 1,380,031.

Years

White 1

Negro

Total

Per Sq. Mile

1840 1880 1900 1910

301,856

611,153

893,194

1,099,582

8,122 11,547 15,226 15,174

309,978

622, 700

908,420

1,114,756

64 3 129-2 188 5 2813

i Including Asiatics and Indians. The population by sex and colour in 1910 was : —

-

Negro

Asiatic

516 17

Indian

Total

Male Female

555,821 543,076

7,229

7,945

15.174

76

76

152

563,642 551,114

Total

1.09S

533

1,114,756

In 1910 the foreign-bom population numbered 328,759 of whom _- were English ; 6,750 Scottish; 58,457 Irish; 31,126 German ; 54,120 from Russia ; 18,208 Swedish ; 56,953 Italian. Of the total population in 1910, 89 - 7 per cent, was urban.

The chief towns are New Haven (with census population on Jan 1, 1920), 162,519; Hartford (capital), 138,036; Bridgeport, 143,538 ; Waterburv, 91,715; New Britain, 59,316: Meriden, 34,764; New London, 25,688; Norwich, 29,685; Norwalk, 27,743; Stamford, 40,067; Danbury, 22,325; Ansonia, 17,643; Middletown, 22,129; Greenwich, 22,123; fonington, 22,055.

Of the religious bodies the most important in order of strength are the Roman Catholic, Congregationalist, Protestant Episcopal, Methodist, and Baptist.

Elementary instruction is free for all children between the ages of 4 and 1 6

fears, and compulsory for all children between the ages of 7 and 16 years, n 1919 the 1,336 public elementary schools had 6,017 teachers with 224,054 enrolled pupils. There were also 77 public high schools with 1,052 teachers and 25,115 pupils. The four normal schools had in 1919 39 teachers and 574 pupils. In 1919, the 10 model schools had 98 teachers and 3,819 pupils. Total expenditure on education (1919) 12,391, S63 dollars. Instruction in agri- culture and the mechanic arts is provided at the Connecticut Agricultural College founded at Storrs in 1881 with 71 professors and 354 students in 1919-20 ; its work is supplemented by the Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station, and the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station located at New Haven. Yale University. New Haven, founded in 1701, had, in 1919-20, in all departments, 696 professors and teachers and 3,306 students. 'Wesleyan University, Middletown, founded in 1831. had, in 1919-20, 52 professors and teachers, and 595 students. Trinity College, Hartford, founded in 1884, had (1919-20) 29 professors and teachers, and 227 students. Connecticut College for Women had (1919-20) 51 teachers and 315 students.

Including private and ecclesiastical institutions, there were in the State on June 30, 1919, 115 benevolent establishments (exclusive of alms-