The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-08-23
IRISH CENSUS FIGURES.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.'
A glance through the new censtus re-
port Of Ireland reveals some interesting
statistics. The centenarians in 1901
numbered 497 Q94 males and 300 fe-
males), as compared with 578 In, 1901
and $50 in 1881. The commissioners
state that only one in every 1000 males
aged from Is to 20 and seven in every
1000 females of that age were married.
Spinsters aged 20 and upward were
relatively more numerous in the Coun-
ty Of Dublin, where they amounted to
52.2 per cent of the total number OF fe-
males of those ages. and were proper
tionately fewest in Kerry, in which
county the percentage was 33.1 The
proportions of husbands In every hun
bred males aged 20 and upward ranged
from 36.2 in County Kildare to 56.2 in
the county borough of Belfast. In the
county borough of Dublin the percen-
tage was 47.3.
In the County Of Dublin 346 only Of
the females aged 20 and upward were
married, while in Mayo the correspond
ing percentage was 3o.3. A summary
of the general results of the inquiry as
regards the conjugal conditions Of the
people shows that the decrease in the
proportion of married persons noted in
1891, as compared with 1881, still contin-
ues; that the highest proportion Of
married persons is in Connaught. and
that the natural increase in population
in Ireland is at the present time very
small.
The Roman Catholic clergy, which
numbered $500 in 1891, showed an in-
crease of 200 in the decade The indef1-
mite and non-productive class is re-
turned as containing 2,494,958 persons,
or $3.50 per cent Of the population, as
compared with 54.s9 per cent in 1881. It
embraces persons without specific oc-
cupation, persons retired from business
those retired by rank, degree or prop
erty, inmates Of almshouses and lunatic
asylums, and children 1882, $50 Of the
whole class being under Is years of
age).
Large numbers Of persons Of Is years
of age and upward who were in pre-
vious census tabulated as students"
are included in the foregoing class.
The information with regard to the
permanently diseased is very exhaust
i've. For instance, the causes Of blind
ness during the decade are given as
smallpox, 1928 cases; measles, 46 cases;
scalatina, Is cases; fever, As cases;
influenza, q cases; opthalmia, 1874 cases
rheumatic affections IS cases; anepro-
sis, IL cases; cataract, 400 cases; conse-
quence of childbirth, II cases; mechan-
ical Injuries being responsible for the
oir6 no ~ sv,
warehouses; was equal to 96.5 in every
10000 of the population. as against 80
in 1891.
There were relatively more paupers
in warehouses; in Munster than in any
of the other provinces, the proportion
being 1928 In every 10000 Of the popu-
lation. Prisoners in prisons and BRIDE
wells represent 10 in every 10000 Of the
population in Leinster, 40 in Munster,
3.8 in Ulster and "a only in Connaught.
The military quartered In Ireland on
census night, 1901, numbered 21,235, or
AIS to every 10000 of the population
From the census returns for County
Dublin it appears that the city or coun-
ty borough Of Dublin covers an area of
1911 acres, or 0.04 per cent of the total
erea OF the country The lumber of
persons in the City Of Dublin according
to the census of 1891 was 26s,65o, and
according to the recent census 290,638
Q4o,3SS males and 15o.25o females), or
81 per cent more than In 1891.
The number of distinct families in
the city at the time Of the late enumer-
alton was 1928, the average number
Of persons in family being thus 4.6.
The number Of Inhabited houses was
81, O31, showing an average of So per-
sons to each house. The number of
tenements of one room in the city was
N,747, comprising 3,278 cases in whicA
l room had only one occupant; 1920
where l room had 2, 3, or 4 occupants;
1876 cases in which there were 5, 6 or
Z occupants;an 573 cases where the
occupants exceeded in NUMBER, inclu-
ding AT cases of 10 persons, 10 of II per-
sons, and of IL or more persons in one
room.
or the total population of the city in
1871 BIB per cent were Catholics; 1913
per cent Protestant Episcopal'ans, ia
per cent Presbyterians, 0.S per cent
Methodist S, and IL per cent members
Of other religious denominations In
1891 Catholics formed 822 per cent.
Protestant Episcopalians 14.4 per cent.
Presbyterians ia per cent, Methodists
or per cent, and members of all other
denominations 1.3 per cent. OF the pop-
ulation of the city as then constituted
the number Of children attending
school in 1891 was 1881, or 452 per
cent OF persons aged years and I'M
der 20; in 1901 the number was 46.535
or 55.4 per cent Of the persons aged +
and under 20.