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GERMAN EMPIKE : — PRUSSIA
the nature of the administrative division. The matters dealt with are such as poor-relief, roads, light railwa} s, &c., but in rural districts they include agricultural interests, and in towns, education, sick-insurance, valuation, col- lection of certain taxes, rausteriug of recruits, management of gas, water, and electric works, &c. The Crown controls the administration of all the adminis- trative areas.
Area and Population.
I, PuOGltESS AND PeESBNT CONDITION.
Including Helgoland.
Provinces
Area : Square
Population
Pop. per Square
Miles 14,786
1910
1905
Mile, 1910
East Prussia (Ostpreussen)
2,064,175
2,030,176
139-6
West Prussia (Westprensseii) .
9,861
1,703,474
1,641,874
172-7
Berlin
24
2,071,257
2,040,148
86,279-0
Braadenburg ....
15,383
4,092,616
3,531,856
266-0
Ponierania (Pommerii)
11,631
1,716,921
1,684,345
147-5
Posen . . . • .
11,190
2.099,831
1,986,6.37
187-6
yilesia (Sclilesieii)
15,569
5,225,962
4,942,725
335-6
Saxony (Sachsen)
9,752
3,089,275
2,979,249
315-7
Schleswig-Holstein l
7,338
1,621,004
1,504,248
220-7
Hanover (Hannover)
14,870
2,!-t42,436
2,759,245
197-2
Westphalia (Westfalen) .
7,804
4,125,096
3,618,090
528-6
Hesse-Nassau ....
6,062
2,221,021
2,070,052
366-3
Rhine (Rheinprovinz)
10,423
7,121,140
6,436,337
683-1
Hoheuzollern ( Hohenzollern sche
Lande)
441 135,134
71,011
68,282
141-0
Total ....
40,165,219
37,293,264
224-0
Development of Prussia since 1875 : —
Year
1875 1890 1900 1905 1910
Area in Sq. Miles Population
134,179 134,537 134,622 135,134 135,134
25,742,404 29,957,367 84,472,509 37,293,264 40,165,219
Average per
Percentage of
Sq. Mile
Annual Increase
191-8
_
222-7
1-1
256-1
1-5
275 9
1-59
297-0
1-54
The population living in towns and that not in towns in 1905 and 1910 were as follows : —
—
1910
1905 1
Annual increase per cent. 1905-1910.
Town population
Country population ....
18,963,785 21,201,434
17,378,965 19,914,299
1 74
1-25
1 On the same areas as iu 1910.
