AREA AND POPULATION
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The State sends 2 Senators and 16 Representatives to the Federal Congress.
Governor. — Channing H. Cox, 1921 (salary, 10,000 dollars).
Secretary of the Commonwealth. — Frederic W. Cook, 1921.
There are 14 conn ties in the State, varying largely in population, and there are 38 cities and 31 6 towns. The State Capital is Boston.
Area and Population.— Area 8,266 square miles (227 square miles being water.) Tlie population as determined \<y the Federal Census of
- v 1, 1920, was 3,852,356.
The population at the date of each of the Censuses was as follows : —
Tears
1900 1910
1910
White
1,443,156
('••lourr-l
'-'3,574
-U.4'.«> 49,037
Total
Z.8M i4« 3,366,416 3,693.310
Per «q. mile
185-0 284 3 300.' 4274 408-9
In 1915 the population by sex and race waa :
White
Negro
Asiatic Indian
Total
Male .
Female
7,944 1,856.329
22,703 22.S95
3,066 373
1,813,718
'.597
Total .
3,644,273
45,598
3,037 40-2
8,698,310
Of the total population in 1915, 1,152,045 were foreign-born, of whom 210,166 (18-2 per cent.) were from Ireland ; 122,129 (106 per cent.) from Italy; 96,357 (8 4 per cent.) from Russia; 95,929 (8*3 per cent.) from England ; 83,373 (72 per cent.) from Poland ; 52,133 (4-5 per cent.) from Portugal ; 12,004 (10 per cent.) from Austria ; 41,136 (36 per cent.) from Sweden ; 32,088 (2-8 per cent.) from Scotland ; 28,696 (2-5 per cent) from Germany ; 21,986 (1-9 per cent.) from Turkey ; 18,163 (1"6 per cent.) from Greece ; and 14,342 (12 per cent.) from Finland.
In 1920 the population of each of 36 cities of the State was as follows : —
Cities
Popu- lation
Cities
Popu- lation
Cities
lation
Boston (capital) .
748.060
Haverhill .
53,887
Chicopee .
36,214
Worcester .
170,754
Maiden
49,103
Revere
Fall River .
120,480
Chelsea
1 43,184
Gloucester .
New Bedford
121,317
Newton
«f,0M
Beverley .
22,501
Cambridge .
109,694
Quincy
47.011
North Adams
Lowell
112,769
Fitchburg
41,018
Northampton
21,951
Springfield .
129,463!
Pittsfleld
41.7.-.1
Peabodyl .
19.552
Lvnn .
99,148
Everett
40,109
Attleboro .
Lawrence .
'.'4, '.'70
Salem.
42,515
Leominster^
19,745
Somerrille .
93,091
Taunton
87,137
Melrose
18,204
Brockton
Medford
Woburn
16,565
Holyoke
60,203
Waltham
80,891
Newburyport
15,609
1 Became ■ city January 1. 1917.
2 Became a city January 1, 1910.
The Registrar's Report for 1919 showed : Live births, 87,826, or 22-9 per 1,000 population ; deaths, 52,345, or 13"6 per 1,000 population ; marriages, 34,829, or 11*8 per 1,000 population.
Divorces granted in 1919 numbered 2,536, or 17 per 1,000 married
