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UNITED STATES : — RHODE ISLAND

The State is divided into 5 counties and 39 cities and towns. Capital is Providence.

The State

Area, Population, Education.— Area 1,248 square miles, of which nearly 181 square miles is water. Census population on January 1, 1920, 604,397. Population of Census years : —

Years

White 1

Negro

Total

Per sq. mile

1820

1900

1905.

1910

1915

1920

79,457 419,464 470,735 533,081 584,365

3,602 9,092 9,993 9,529 11,621

83,059 428,556 480,082 542,610 595,986 604,397

76-6 407-0 455-4 508-5 5585 566-4

1 Including Indians and Asiatics In 1915 the population by sex and birth was ! —

-

White

Negro

Asiatic Indian

Total

Male Female.

291,556 292,809

5,751 5,129

545 196

297,852 298,134

Total

584,365

10,880

741

595,986

The foreign-born in 1915 numbered 135,894 white, of whom 28,963 were English, 6,418 Scottish, 27,044 Irish, 7,064 English Canadian, 28,376 French Canadian, 33,802 Italian, 4,227 German. The chief city is Providence, which (1920) had a population of 237,595 ; Pawtucket, 64,248 ; Woonsocket, 43,496 ; Newport, 30,255 ; Warwick, 13,481 ; West Warwick, 15,461 ; Central Falls, 24,174 ; Cranston, 29,407 ; E. Providence, 21,793. The urban population in 1915 was96'8 percent, of the whole. In 1918 there were 15,547 births in the State, 12,490 deaths, and 4,677 marriages. The death rate in cities in 1918 was 19-03, and in rural districts 22*00 per 1,000 of population.

The principal religious bodies are Catholic, Baptist, Protestant Episcopal, Congregational, and Methodist.

In 1919 the 2,093 public elementary schools had 2,585 teachers and 82,300 enrolled pupils ; 163 high schools had 881 teachers and 8,756 pupils. Total expenditure on education 3,770,440 dollars. The State maintains a Normal school with 36 teachers and 285 female students (1920), and an Agricultural and Mechanic Arts College with 89 teachers and 350 students (1920). The Brown University at Providence, founded in 1764, is under Baptist control. In 1920-21 it had 89 professors and teachers, and 1,349 students, male and female.

Charity. — The State has several charitable institutions, comprising a school for the deaf (102 inmates), a State home and school for children (246 inmates), a soldiers' home, a sanatorium for consumptives (232 (daily average for 1919) patients), a State Hospital for Mental Diseases (1,399 inmates) a school for the feeble-minded (375 inmates), and a State infirmary (531 inmates). There are also 37 benevolent institutions, hospitals, orphanages homes, kc. , provided by private associations and religious bodies.