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UNITED STATES
The total population in 1910 comprised 47,332,277 males, and 44,639,989 females.
Occupations in 1900 not including Alaska and Hawaii, and soldiers, etc., abroad : —
Class of occupations Male
Female
Total
Agricultural pursuits Professional service Domestic and personal service . Trade and transportation Manufacturing and mechanical pur- suits ......
9,404,429
827,941
3,485,208
4,263,617
5,772,641
23,753,836
977,336
430,597
2,095,449
503,347
1,312,668
5,319,397
10,381,765 1,258,538 5,580,657 4,766,964
7,085,309
Total employed
29,073,233
The total area of Indian reservations in the United States, exclusive of Alaska, was in 1909, 77,446 square miles (in 1890, 162,991 square miles), with an Indian population of 300, 121 (in 1890, 243,524). Extensive reserva- tions are in Oklahoma State, 7,686 square miles, population 117,370 ; Arizona, 30,554 square miles, population 37, 209 ; South Dakota, 9, 722 square miles, population 20,171 ; Montana, 10,418 square miles, population 10,426.
In 1909 the United States spent 17,000,000 dollars on the Indians. There are 56 agencies throughout the States.
In 1910 (not including Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico and other non- contiguous possessions, and persons in the military and naval service stationed abroad) 78,456,380, or 85 '03 per cent, were natives and 13,515,886, or 14*7 per cent., foreign-born.
Origin of the foreign-born white population, 1910 census : —
England . . . .
876,455
Switzerland
124,834
Wales . . . .
82,479
Holland .
120,053
Scotland . , . .
261,034
Mexico .
219,802
Ireland . . . .
1,352,155
Cuba and West Indies ^
23,169
Hungary
495,600
Total United Kingdom
2,572,123
Belgium .
49,397
Germany
2,501,181
Portugal .
57,623
Canada . . . .
1,196,070
Spain
21,977
Sweden .
665,183
China . . . .
333
Norway .
403,858
Japan
198
Russia and Finland
1,732,421
Greece .
101,264
Italy .
1,343,070
Turkey .
91,923
Denmark
181,621
Other foreign countries
151,685
1,174,924
France .
117,236
Total .
. 13,345,545
1 Except Porto Rico.
II. Movement of Population.
There is as yet no national system of registration of births, deaths, and marriages in the United States. The birth-rate computed for 1900, on the basis of infants under 1 year of age living at the close of the Census year and of those who were born and died during that year, was 27 '2 per 1,000, but this is acknowledged to be too low. Death rates are corajjuted from returns for certain areas where local registration records are kept. These areas, now
