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UNITED STATES: — FLORIDA

Area, Population, Religion, Instruction.— Area 58,666 square

miles, of which 3,805 square miles is water. The Indian reservations had an area in 1919 of 36 square miles, and a population of 573.

Census population on January 1, 1920, 968,471. Population in census years as follows: —

Years

1880 1900 1910 1915

White i

142,803 297,812 443,950 559,787

Negro

126,690 230,730 308,669 360,394

Total

269,493 528,542 752,619 920,181

Per sq. mile

4-9

9-6 13-7 157

1 Including Indians and Asiatics. In 1915 the population hv sex and birth was as follows : —

White

Negro

187,295 173,099

Asiatic

Indians

Total

Male. . Female.

291,684 268,103

. 559,787

478,979

441,202

Total.

360,394

226

129

920,181

Including 1,0S2 convicts.

Of the total, the foreign-born (1910) numbered 33,842, of whom 1,896 were from the West Indies, 2,917 from England, 2,442 from Germany, 4,538 from Italy, 1,698 from Canada, and 4,183 from Spain. The largest cities in the State are Jacksonville, with a census population of 91,558 in 1920 : Tampa, 51,608 ; Pensacola, 31,035 ; Miami, 29,549 ; Key West, 18,749. Of the total population in 1915, 44 - 2 per cent, was urban.

Of the church members of the State 41 '6 per cent, are Baptist, and 37 "2 per cent. Methodist. Others are chiefly Roman Catholics, Protestant Episco- palians, and Presbyterians.

Attendance at school is not compulsory. There are no provisions as to religious instruction in public schools. Separate schools are provided for white and coloured children.

In 1920 the 2,584 public elementary schools had 6,296 teachers and 212,465 enrolled pupils. In 125 public high schools there were 525 teachers and 12,695 pupils in 1920. Total expenditure on education (1918), 4,674,111 dollars. The State provides higher education in a University of the State of Florida at Gainsville (founded 1884) with (1919) 43 professors and 988 students, and a State College for Women (founded at Tallahassee in 1905), with 598 students ; Rollins College at Winter Park (founded 1885) has 25 professors and 175 students. There is also the John B. Stetson (Baptist) University at De Land (founded in 1887), with 32 professors and 649 students.

On January 1, 1910, the number of paupers in almshouses was 207, being 27'5 per 100,000 of the population, and of prisoners in penal institntions 1836, being 243-9 per 100,000 of the population. Number of convicts in 1915, 1,082.