Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1891 — INTERESTING CENSUS BULLETIN. [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING CENSUS BULLETIN.

Twenty-Eight of the Largest Cities in Eng. land and the Edited States Compared. Some interesting and significant figures concerning the growth of municipal population have been brought together at the census office for the purpose of comparison. The twenty-eight largest cities in the United States were selected, and also the largest twenty-eight cities in England as shown by the census of 1891 in England and of 1890 in the United States. The figures show for the United States a population of these twenty-eight cities in 1893 of 9.697,960, and in 1880 of 6,094,636. an increase of 3,003.324. The per cent, of this increase was 44.86. The twenty-eight cities have a total area of 583,833.60 acres, and the population to each acre is 16.61 The same figures for England show for twenty-eight, cities a population in 1881 of 8,437,214, and 1891 of 9,379,711, *an increase of t»42,497i The per cent, of this- increase was only 11.2. The twenty-eight English cities cover an area of only 258..809 acresmaking the population ,to each acre 36.2. One would naturally expect front the far greater population to each acre in the English cities than in those in this country. that the.city containing tiio greatest number of persons to an acre would not be in this country. •Curiously enough, however, tho city containing the greatest number of persons to an acre in the United -Slates is 4 licgiipiiy T I!n_ T whcre..Um-iuuw-ber is 103.47. In England, Liverpool ranks highest in this respect, showing 99.4 persons to the acre. The cities showing the largest increase of population are in tho United States, Chicago,where the increase In the decade was 596,665, and in England, London,where the increase is 395,512. The largest’'increase by per cent, is shown by Omaha, in the United States, where tho per cent, of increase is 300.23, and in Great Britain, Cardiff, where the per cent, is 55.7. The least number of persons to at; acre is shown in the United States by St,. I’aul, where tho number is 4.05 per acre, and in England by Huddersfield,where, thq number is 8.1. In the United States non o of these twenty-eight cities show an actual loss. In England the only city showing an actual loss in population during the decade is Liverpool, where there was a total loss of 34,557, or 6.3 per coni.