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 550 UNITED STATES :— MARYLAND

Of the total population 104,174 were foreign born, of whom 36,652 were from Germany (35*2 per cent.), 9,701 from Ireland, 27,532 from Russia and Russian Poland, and 5,197 from England.

The largest city in the State and also the chief manufacturing and com- mercial centre, is Baltimore, with a census population in 1920 of 733,826. Oth^r cities, with population in 1920, are Cumberland, 29,837 ; Hagerstown, 28,029 ; Frederick 11,066 ; Annapolis (Capital), 11,214. Of the total population in 1910, 50"8 per cent, was urban. Over two-fifths of the population of the State live within the corporate limits of the City of Baltimore.

The prevailing forms of religion are Protestant, but Roman Catholics have 35 3 per cent, of the Church membership in the State.

Education is compulsory for children 8 to 12 years of age in the entire State since September 1, 1916, and 8 to 16 unless legally employed.

In 1920, there were in the 2,423 public elementary and high schools of the. State, 181,547 white (92,964 hoys and 88,583 girls) and 43,543 coloured (21,091 boys and 22,452 girls) elementary pupils and 15,541 white (6,825 boys and 8,716 girls), and 987 (278 hoys and 709 girls) high school pupils. The State had 3 normal schools, with 74 teachers and 350 pupils in 1920. The total expenditure on education in 1920 was 8,916,441 dollars.

The most important institution for higher education is Johns Hopkins University, organised in 1876. It is non-sectarian, and in 1919 had 350 instructors and 2,000 students. Its hospital with educational features is famous. Goucher College, formerly the Woman's College of Baltimore, founded in 1888, has 60 instructors and 712 students. Other institutions are the Peabody Institute for the Education of Music, the Maryland Institute School of Art and Design, Walter's Art Gallery, Maryland University, Maryland Agricultural College with 40 professors and 224 students ; the Princess Anne Academy for Coloured Youths, with 4 teachers and 47 students.

The Enoch Pratt Free Library has 11 branches, and a recent donation made by Andrew Carnegie of 500,000 dollars provides for 20 additional branches.

For charitable purposes the State contains (besides almshouses and asylums for the insane) 117 institutions nearly all provided by private or ecclesias- tical charity. They comprise 32 hospitals (one public), 10 dispensaries (two public), 38 orphanages, three day nurseries, 30 homes for adults, and four schools for the deaf and blind (two public).

On January 1, 1910, the number of paupers in almshouses was 1,681, being 1298 per 100,000 of the population, and of prisoners in penal insti- tutions 2,146, being 1657 per 100,000 of the population.

Finance, Defence.— For the year ending September 30, 1920, the total receipts and disbursements were as follows : —

Dollars Balance, Sept. 30, 1919 ... 2,445,716

Receipts, 1919-20 13,083,601

Total. . 15,529,317

Disbursements, 1919-20 12,304,346

Balance, Sept. 30, 1920 .... 3,224,971