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UNITED STATES : — OHIO

Population of the chief cities was as follows, according to the Census of 1920:—

Cities

Population

Cities

Population

Cities

Population

Cleveland. .

796,836

Hamilton

39,675

Ashtabula

22,022

Cincinnati.

401,158

Lorain. ..

37,295

Alliance. .

21,603

Toledo. ..

243,109

Portsmouth.

33,011

East Liverpool

21,411

Columbus. .

237,031

Zanesville

29,561 Elyria. ..

20,474

Akron. ..

208,435

Steubenville.

28,503 Massillon. .

17,428

Dayton. ' ..

153,830

Marion. ..


 * 27,891

Findlay. .

17,015

Youngstown.

132,258

Mansfield


 * 27,824

Chillicothe.

15,831

Canton. ..

87,091

Newark. .

j 26,718

Marietta. .

15,100

Springfield

60,840

Norwood.

! 24,966 Bellaire. .

15,061

Lakewood. .

41,732

Middletown.

23,594 i Piqua. ..

15,044

Lima. ..

41,306

Sandusky. .

22,897 ! Lancaster. .

14,706

Of the total population in 1910, 55 9 per cent, was urban.

The chief religious bodies are Roman Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Baptist.

School attendance during full term is compulsory on children from 6 to 15 years of age. In Ohio in 1919 the 10,707 public elementary schools had 28,224 teachers (3,171 men and 25,053 women), and 880,290 enrolled pupils, (450,371 boys and 429,919 girls) ; 588 public high schools had 6,914 teachers (2,483 men and 4,431 women), and 132,711 pupils (60,639 boys and 72,072 girls), in 1919. There are 5 State normal schools with 77 teachers and 1,127 students in 1918. Expenditure on education in 1919 was 60,040,295 dollars. For superior instruction the State contains 40 Universities and colleges, of which the following are the more important (1920) : —

Founded

Institutions Professors

Students (all depart- ments)

1872

Ohio 8tate University, Columbus. . 487

5,105

1874

Cincinnati University (City)

303

3,006

1826

Western Reserve University, Cleveland.

331

1,990

1844

Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware (M.E.)

78

1,258

1833

Oberlin College, Oberlin ....

92

1,178

1809

Ohio University, Athens (State)

56

984

1824

Miami University, Oxford (State)

67

1,499

1831

Denison University, Granville (Bapt.)

47

781

1880

Case School of Applied Science, Cleveland

74

887

1868

Wooster University (Presb.)

37

671

1845

Wittenberg College, Springfield (Luth.).

28

364

1846

Mt. Union College, Alliance (M.E.).

24

816

1847

Ottarbein University, Westerville(U.B.)

22

365

1824

Kenyon College, Oambier (Episcopal)

17

127

The daily average number of paupers in the county homes during 1918 was 7,947, being 151*0 per 100,000 of population, and the average daily number of prisoners in the penal institutions during the year ending July 1, 1920, was 3,774, being 655 per 100,000 of the population.