Preliminary Results as Contained in the Eleventh Census Bulletins

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United States Census Printing Office, 1891 - United States
 

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Page 48 - CECIL H. GREEN LIBRARY STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305-6 (415) 723-1493 All books may be recalled after 7...
Page 1 - New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Page 1 - In the published records of former censuses urban population has been defined as that element living in cities, or other closely aggregated bodies of population, containing 8,000 inhabitants or more. This definition of the urban element, although a somewhat arbitrary one, is used in the present discussion of the results of the Eleventh Census in order that they may be compared directly with those of earlier censuses. The limit of 8,000 inhabitants is, however, a high one, inasmuch as most of the...
Page 3 - There is evidence that the White Mountains of New Hampshire, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and the Adirondacks of New York were all enveloped in this sheet of ice.
Page 4 - Nebraska, and extends in a broad belt down throagh the Indian territory and Texas. On the east it merges by insensible degrees into the forest-clad regions, and on the west by equally insensible degrees into the Great Plains. It is a region of transition from the one to the other. Its climate is such that without protection forests can not thrive. Before the advent of man various unfavorable conditions, among which forest fires were the most prominent, prevented the growth of forests in this region....
Page 1 - May 29, 1891, the total number of insane persons treated in both public and private institutions during the year 1889 was 97,535, while during the year 1881 there were 56,205 treated, showing an increase in the nine years of 41,330, or 73.53 per cent. This percentage of increase, when compared with the percentage of increase of population in the last decade, namely, 24.86...
Page 5 - It is a region of great plateaus, whose surfaces are level or slightly inclined, and which terminate with great lines of cliffs, in some cases thousands of feet in height. From the mountains which border this range on the east, north and west, these plateaus descend by a succession of gigantic steps from an elevation of twelve thousand feet down to one or two thousand feet above the sea. Every stream is in a canon...
Page 2 - The ratio to each 1,000 inhabitants of the whole United States of the insane in public institutions is 1.46, and including both public and private institutions 1.56.
Page 4 - ... of the colored race. PRAIRIE REGION. This region comprises a small portion of western Indiana, most of Illinois and Iowa, southern Wisconsin and Minnesota, northern Missouri, eastern Dakota, Kansas, and Nebraska, and extends in a broad belt down through the Indian Territory and Texas. On the east it merges bv insensible degrees into the forest-clad regions, and on the west bv equally insensible degrees into the <Jreat Plains.

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