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 AREA AND POPULATION

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The State sends 2 Senators and 16 Representatives to the Federal Congress.

Governor. — Channing H. Cox, 1921 (salary, 10,000 dollars).

Secretary of the Commonwealth. — Frederic W. Cook, 1921.

There are 14 conn ties in the State, varying largely in population, and there are 38 cities and 31 6 towns. The State Capital is Boston.

Area and Population.— Area 8,266 square miles (227 square miles being water.) Tlie population as determined \ 49,037

Total

Z.8M i4« 3,366,416 3,693.310

Per «q. mile

185-0 284 3 300.' 4274 408-9

In 1915 the population by sex and race waa :

White

Negro

Asiatic Indian

Total

Male.

Female

7,944 1,856.329

22,703 22.S95

3,066 373

1,813,718

'.597

Total.

3,644,273

45,598

3,037 40-2

8,698,310

Of the total population in 1915, 1,152,045 were foreign-born, of whom 210,166 (18-2 per cent.) were from Ireland ; 122,129 (106 per cent.) from Italy; 96,357 (8 4 per cent.) from Russia; 95,929 (8*3 per cent.) from England ; 83,373 (72 per cent.) from Poland ; 52,133 (4-5 per cent.) from Portugal ; 12,004 (10 per cent.) from Austria ; 41,136 (36 per cent.) from Sweden ; 32,088 (2-8 per cent.) from Scotland ; 28,696 (2-5 per cent) from Germany ; 21,986 (1-9 per cent.) from Turkey ; 18,163 (1"6 per cent.) from Greece ; and 14,342 (12 per cent.) from Finland.

In 1920 the population of each of 36 cities of the State was as follows : —

Cities

Popu- lation

Cities

Popu- lation

Cities

lation

Boston (capital).

748.060

Haverhill.

53,887

Chicopee.

36,214

Worcester.

170,754

Maiden

49,103

Revere

Fall River.

120,480

Chelsea

1 43,184

Gloucester.

New Bedford

121,317

Newton

«f,0M

Beverley.

22,501

Cambridge.

109,694

Quincy

47.011

North Adams

Lowell

112,769

Fitchburg

41,018

Northampton

21,951

Springfield.

129,463!

Pittsfleld

41.7.-.1

Peabodyl.

19.552

Lvnn.

99,148

Everett

40,109

Attleboro.

Lawrence.

'.'4, '.'70

Salem.

42,515

Leominster^

19,745

Somerrille.

93,091

Taunton

87,137

Melrose

18,204

Brockton

Medford

Woburn

16,565

Holyoke

60,203

Waltham

80,891

Newburyport

15,609

1 Became ■ city January 1. 1917.

2 Became a city January 1, 1910.

The Registrar's Report for 1919 showed : Live births, 87,826, or 22-9 per 1,000 population ; deaths, 52,345, or 13"6 per 1,000 population ; marriages, 34,829, or 11*8 per 1,000 population.

Divorces granted in 1919 numbered 2,536, or 17 per 1,000 married