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Departinent of Bommerce
WM. C. REDFIELD, Secretary
PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION: 1915
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Bureau of the Census
HE BUREA U OF THE CENS US
of the Department of Commerce is the pre-
eminently statistical bureau of the Federal
Government. Its primary function-to enumerate the population decennially-
was ordained by the Constitution in 1789, and its original statistical records
constitute a life-history of the nation, covering the entire period of the nation's
existence. Under statutory provisions, the Bureau's functions have been
developed to embrace a continu ous and varied statistical accounting of the eco-
nomic resources, social conditions, and progress of the American people. Its
permanent force exceeds 600 employees; to take the decennial census 70,000
enumerators are required, and to compile the data, 4,000 clerks. In the course
of each decade the new data accumulating, and registering the growth of the
nation from year to year, are spread over 40,000 printed pages, issued in the
TТHE
SAM. L. ROGERS, Director
form of decennial, quinquennial, biennial, annual, and special reports.
A FEW CENSUS FIGURES.
Population.-Area of United States and possessions, 3,743,306 square miles;
population in 1910, 101,000,000. Population of the 48 states and District of Colum-
bia, 91,972,266-white, 81,731,957 (foreign-born white, 13,345,545; native, both
ents foreign born, 12,916,311; native, one parent foreign born, 5,981,526); Negro,
9,827,763; Indian, 265,683; Chinese, 71,531; Japanese, 72,157; other races, 3,175.
Males over 21 years 26,999,151, females 24,555,754; males of militia age (18 to 44),
20,473,684; children under 15 years, 29,499,136; babies under 1 year, 2,217,342.
Estimated population July 1, 1915, 100,400,000; increase per day, over 4,000.
Number of families in 1910, 20,255,555; number of families owning their homes,
9,083,711. Cities of 25,000 or more in 1910, 229; population, 28,543,816. Popula-
tion per square mile, 30.9 (Nevada, 0.7; Rhode Island, 508.5). Population per
representative in Congress, 211,877.
Occupations.-There were 38,167,336 persons over 10 years of age in 1910 gain-
fully employed-12,659,203 in agriculture, 964,824 in mining, 10,658,881 in manu-
trade, 1,663,569 in professional service, 3,772,174 in domestic and personal service,
and 2,196,344 in other employments.
Insane, paupers, prisoners.-In hospitals for the insane Jan. 1, 1910, there
were 187,791 inmates; in almshouses, 84,198; in prisons and jails, 111,498.
Deaths.-In the registration area (comprising two-thirds of the total popu-
lation of the United States) 890,848 persons died in the year 1913, the death rate
being 14.1 per 1,000 population; 80,812 persons died of tuberculosis of the lungs,
49,928 of cancer, 47,220 of apoplexy, 87,755 of heart disease, 65,106 of Bright's
disease or nephritis. There were 9,988 deaths by suicide and 4,567 by homicide.
Agriculture.-Number of farms in 1910, 6,361,502. Value of farm property,
$40,991,450,000. Value of farm crops in 1909, $5,487,000,000, including 2,552,000,000
bushels of corn, valued at $1,439,000,000; 683,000,000 bushels of wheat, valued at
$658,000,000; and 10,649,268 bales of cotton, valued at $704,000,000. Óther farm
products-1,000,000,000 pounds of butter and cheese; 1,591,000,000 dozen eggs
289,000,000 pounds of wool; animals sold and slaughtered, value $1,833,000,000.
Manufactures.-Number of establishments reporting in 1910, 268,491; per-
sons employed, 7,678,578; capital, $18,428,000,000; value of products, $20,672,000,000;
value of products less cost of materials, $8,529,000,000; primary horsepower,
18,675,000; wages paid, $3,427,000,000.
Electrical industries.-Number of telephones, 8,729,592 in 1912; miles of
wire, 20,248,326; estimated number of messages or talks, 13,735,700,000. Telegraph
offices, 30,864; miles of single wire, 1,814,196; messages, 109,377,698.Trackage of
street and electric railways, 41,065 miles; passengers carried, 9,545,554,667.
Public finances.-Revenue receipts in 1913-National, $953,596,637; state,
$367,585,331; county, $370,043,046; municipal, $1,108,197,388. Costs of govern-
ment-National, $952,600,857; state, $382,551,199; county, $385,181,760; municipal,
$1,246,636,677. Public debt-National, $2,916,204,914; state, $422,796,525; county,
$393,207,409: municipal, $3,460,006, 706.]
Wealth.-Estimated aggregate wealth of the country in 1912, $187,739,000,000.
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