The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-12-09
SEVENTH CENSUS.

ABSTRACT OF THE SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CENSUS.
Among the documents accompanying the
Presidents Message to Congress- is the second
annual report of Mr.. Kennedy, Superintendent
of the Census This paper contains great va
riety of statistics, all of which will excite Gu
riosty and attention and most of which, we
presume, will be found valuable and useful
The present report, in connection with that of
last year, embraces nearly all the important
results of the census; although owing to the
difficulties existing in Congress for the past
three years, relative to the public printing, no
provision has been made for publishing them,
and months, perhaps years, are likely to elapse
before the details will appear in a corrected
and official shape. Below we give an abstract
of the most important statements contained in
Mr.. Kennedys report.
The following is a list of subjects into which
the paper is divided;
Contents of Report of James C. G. Kennedy,
Superintendent Census
/. Population of the United States, progress
Of considered in comparison with that of Eng
land France Prussia, and Belgium.
2. House accommodations considered with
reference to the United States and England
and Ireland
8. Law of mortality, with statistical tables,
illustrative thereof in the United States Eng
land, and France; and tables comparing the
white free colored, and slaves with respect tn
persistence or expectation of life.
a. Report on the Nativity of the Inhabitants
of the several States with respect to each other,
and with reference to foreign countries
5. Deaf mutes, number and increase consld-
cred
g. Blind, number Of and increase.
7, Insane and idiotic, separately considered,
as to number and increase.
g. Education, number of teachers and taught
Academies colleges and schools.
9. Paupersm The number of paupers ina
tive and foreign and cost of maintenance, in
this and other countries
10. Statistics of crime, showing the number
of criminal convictions tof natives and foreign
ers) within the year, and the number in prison
on the LIST June, 1850
IL. Religion number of churches value, and
accommodations in the several States. denom-
nationally considered
~. Estate, real and personal, of the several
States
10. Agriculture, containing history Of the
origin, introduction, extent of cultivation, i'm
ports and exports of the principal agricultural
productions of the several States.
Ia. Railroads History of introduction ex-
tent, cost and capital Of the railroads in the
United States; also, dividends and cost of
transportation, compared with those of Europe,
as TO cost, &c.
Is. Telegraphs History Of the first intro
duction the progress and extent of teegraphs
cost OF construction, with rates of charges
View OF European magnetic telegraphs.
10. Estimated cost of work, and necessary
appropriations to complete the same.
II. Concluding remarks
The review Of the popgress of our popula-
ton contrasts the circumstances Of our ad-
vancement, in that respect with those devel-
oped by the statistics of other countries, and
more particularly with Great Britain Enough
has already been said relative to the popula-
ton OF the United States. as shown by this
census. That of the United Kingdom was in
1881, 27,6l9s66. The increase in fifty years
had been lO,3l79l7; rate per cent in fifty
years sS; annual rate of increase per cent.
1877.
The population of Ireland in 1921, was
6,sOl ,s27 In 1881 it was 7,7s74Oi increase
s65,57l; increase per cent l4.l9. In 1871 it
was 8 i75,l24 increase 4O7, 723 increase per
cent, 525. In 1851 it was 6,5i5,794; decrease
1868, 800 decrease per cent 90.
The number of houses in the United States
inhabited by free persons is 3,s63,427.. 10
Great Britain, 3,366,9a4 In Ireland there
are l,0i5735 inhabited houses, Of which .
considerable proportion are mere hovels Inc
proportion Of inhabitants to dwellings II about
the same in the United States and Great bTit'