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 EDUCATION — CHARITY

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According to the census of January 1, 1920, the population of the citiea was as follows : —

Cities

Pop.

Milwaukee

457,147

Racine. .

58,593

Kenosha.

40.472

Superior. .

39,6v!4

Madison

38,378

Oshkosh. .

33,162

Green Bay

31,017

attm

, Sheboygan.

Lacrosse.

Fond du Lac.

Beloit. ..

Ean Claire.


 * Appleton ..

\ Wansau. .

Pop.

30,955 30,363 23,427 21,284 20,880 19,561 18,661

Cities

Janes ville

Manitowoc.

West Allis. Marinette.

W aukesha. Stevens Point

Ashland. .

Pop.

18,293 17,563 13,765 13,610 12,558 11,370 11,334

Of the total population in 1920, 429 per cent, was urban.

The chief religious bodies are : Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Methodist, Congregationalism Baptist, Presbyterian, Christian Science, Unitarian, and Seventh Dav Adventist.

Education.— School attendance is compulsory for all children between the ages of 7 and 14 years, in cities for the entire school year, and in towns and villages for 6 months a year. Where industrial or continuation schools are established, children between 14 and 17 who are regularly employed must attend such schools 8 hours per week. In 1919-20 the elementary schools had 14,122 teachers, and 405,467 enrolled pupils, the 373 public high schools had 3,179 teachers and 59,776 pupils. The 9 State normal schools had 347 teachers and 3,773 students.

The University of Wisconsin at Madison was established in 1848. It had, in 1920, 886 professors and instructors and 10,155 (inoluding the summer seasion of 1919) student*. Instruction by correspondence was introduced in 1911, and in 1919-20 gave instruction to 15,554 students. A score of private colleges and academies have from 12 to 80 professors and instructors, with from 150 to 2,000 students.

Expenditure on education in 1919-20, for elementary and secondary schools 21,385,791 dollars ; for normal schools, 1,220,885 dollars; and for the University, 3,979,748 dollars.

Charity. — On June 30, 1920, the State had fifteen charitable and penal institutions with inmates as follows : State hospital for the insane, 661 ; Northern hospital for the insane, 611 : school for the deaf, 159 ; school for the blind, 131; industrial school for boys, 451 ; State prison, 749 ; State public school, 257 ; home for feeble-minded, 1,060 ; Southern home for feeble- minded and epileptic, 83 ; State reformatory, 274 ; State tuberculosis sani- torium, 174 ; Central State hospital for the insane, 105 : Tomahawk Lake Camp (tubercular), 20 ; industrial school lor girls, 23S. Total inmate popu- lation, June 30, 1920, 4,974, with 2,514 on parole. For the year ending June 30, 1920, the cost of maintenance of the State institutions was 1,951,327 dollars, in addition to which the State paid 690,143 dollars towards the maintenance of county asylums for chronic insane.