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 576 UNITED STATES:— -NEW HAMPSHIRE

The population at the date of the Federal censuses was as follows : —

Years

White

Coloured

Total

Per sq. mile.

i

1880 1890 1900 1910

346,229 376,840 410,791 429,906

762 690

797 666

346,991 370,530 411,588 430,572

38-4

41-7

45-6

! 47-7

In 1910 the population by sex and race was :•

_

White

Negro

Asiatic

Indian

Total

Male. Femule. |

215,918 213,988

288 276

84 18

216,290 214,282

Total.

429,906

564

i

68



34

430,572

Of the total population in 1910, 96,667 were foreign born, of whom 2,068 were Swedes, 4,345 Russians, 2,046 Germans, 4,862 EDglish, 10,613 Irish, 57,878 Canadian.

The largest city of the State is Manchester, with a population of 78,384 in 1920. Other cities are Nashua, 28,379 ; Concord (capital), 22,157; Dover, 13,029; Berlin ,16,014 ; Portsmouth, 13,569; Laconia, 10,897 ; Keene, 11,210; Rochester, 9,673. Of the population in 1910, 59-2 per cent, was urban.

The prevailing form of religion is the Roman Catholic, which has 63 per cent, of the Church membership ; other bodies are Congregational, Baptist, Methodist, and Protestant Episcopal. Religious instruction is not given in the public schools. The Roman Catholics maintain parochial schools in all the cities and some of the large towns.

The State law requires that at least 36 weeks of schooling must be pro- vided in every town annually. School attendance is compulsory for children from 8 to 14 years of age during the whole school term ; and if they have not completed the elementary grades the school age extends to 16. In 1920 the public elementary schools of the State had 2,648 teachers, and 64,205 enrolled pupils ; 86 public high schools had 673 teachers and 13,055 pupils. The 2 normal schools had 31 teachers and 286 students in 1920. The principal colleges within the State are Dartmouth College, at Hanover, founded in 1769, and the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, at Durham, founded in 1868. They are non-sectarian. Dartmouth had (1919) 125 instructors and 1,127 students; the State College 62 instructors and 659 students. Expenditure on Education in 1920, 3,960,075 dollars.

On August 31, 1918, the number of paupers in almshouses was 754, and of prisoners in penal institutions in 1918, 140.

Finance, Defence. — The revenue and expenditure for the respective years ending August 31, 1919 and 1920, were : —

1916,18 1919-20

Dollars Dollars

Cash balance, Sept. 1, 1918 and 1919. 447,764 180,924

Receipts, 1918 19 and 1919-20. . 4,191,389 7,462,f!3^

Total

Disbursements, 1918-19 and 1919-20

4,639,153 4,458,229

Balance, September 1, 1919 and 1920. 180,924

7,633,556 7,446,823

186,733