Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-28
STATISTICS ON TEACHERS
One Instructor for Each Seventy 0nS
Persons Of School Age.
PERCENTAGE MUCH LARGER IN NORTH
Ratio of Teachers 10 Population Has
More Than Doubled in Last Thirty
Years and is Highest in
Big cities.

WASHINGTON, Aug. E.-The census
bureau has just published as bulletin
an analysis by Prof. Walter F. Wilcox of
Cornell university of the census statistics
relating to teachers. Calculating the school
age as from to "A the report finds that
taking the country as a whole, there is an
average of one teacher to every seventy
one pupils, of 40 for every 10000 The
computation shows that the supply of
teachers in proportion 10 school popula-
ton has more than doubled in the last
thirty years and that teachers exceed the
total number of clergymen, lawyers and
physicians.
In 1900 Nevada had the largest proper
tional number Of teachers, Vermont ranked
| second, Maine third and Iowa fourth. The
proportion of teachers was smallest in
some of the southern states During the
last decade the proportion has increased
| In every state and territory, the increase
reaching a maximum in the state of Wash
ington. The states in the north and west
showed greater increase than those Of
the south.
The proportion Of teachers in continental
United States is smaller than in England
and Wales, but greater than in Germany
France Italy, Canada Mexico, or Cuba,
and in the following states the proportion
greater S than in ENGLAND ana Mass MSss
!
! chusetts, District of Columbia, Ohio, Min
nesota, Iowa, North Dakota. South Dakota,
| Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Nevada,
| Washington, oregon and California. Dur
| ing recent years the proportion of teachers
| increased in this country to greater eX-
| tent than in England, France, Germany or
| Canada.
cities in the Lead.
The proportion of teachers in cities hav-
| ing at least 900 inhabitants is greater
than in smallerAcities or country districts.
| This condition, however, does not pre-
| vail in all districts of the United States:
| In the north Atlantic and north central
divisions the larger cities are not so well
| supplied with teachers as the smaller
| cities and the country districts, a tact
| which suggests the inference that where
| an effective educational system Is of recent
growth II has developed more rapidly in
| the cities, but where It has been estab-
| lished for a generation or more 1t has
| population in the slowly growing rural
| districts than in the rapidly growing
| cities.
The immigrant population contains pro-
! portionately fewer teachers than the negro
population. The children of immigrants
! however, have engaged in teaching to such
| an extent that the proportion OF teachers
| among adults of this class exceeds the
proportion among white children or native
parents. ,
In continental United States, as in all
| countries for which figures were obtainable'
| the greater part OF the teaching is done by
| over male is greater In this country than
| in any other.
In the larger cities of every geogra phical
division In continental United States about
! four-fifths, or so per cent OF the teacners
were women, while in the country the per-
| centage Of women teachers varied from
! sos in the south central division TO IT, in
the north Atlantic division.