The people of Boston.
Subtitle: W.P.A. project no. 17567.
By: Submitted by the City Planning Board, Boston, Massachusetts. August 1939.
Published: 1939
Place of publication: [Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Boston (Mass.) -- Population.; Boston (Mass.) -- Statistics, Vital.
Description: <U+2026>.Volume 1 gives a table showing the population by age (under 1 / 1-7 / 8-16 / 17-21 / 22-40 / 41-55 / 56-65 / 66 up), sex, number of families, quasi-families, quasi-population (quasi-families and quasi-population are families/people living in hotels, clubs, institutions and lodging houses) and total population for the nine districts that comprise Boston (East Boston, Charlestown, City Proper, South Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, West Roxbury, Hyde Park,^

and Allston-Brighton = these neighborhood designations do not match current neighborhood boundaries); 200 plus pages are devoted to giving the population for the same categories as above by census tract and block; Appendix 1 gives tables on the possible correlation between mortality (death) and population density for 75 homogeneous census tracts in 5 residential groups (High Rental // Miscellaneous // Suburban // Three Decker // Low Rental); 9 folded street maps show each of the 9 districts with the census tract boundaries and numbers and black dots indicating population density; Volume 2 is Population Trends; among the tables are: Population by Color, Nativity, and Parentage 1890, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 // Population by Age Groups and Sex (for the same years) // Birth Rate Residents Only Including Sex for each year 1920-1938 // Death Rate Residents Only Including Sex (for same years) // Marital Conditions 15 Years Old and Over by Sex (Single, Married, Widowed, Divorced,^

Unknown (1900, 1910, 1920, 1930) // Families by Size (number of persons / 1890, 1900, 1930) // Gainfully Occupied Male and Female 10 Years and Over by Occupation, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 for Agriculture; Forestry-Fishing; Minerals Manufacturing Industry; Transportation, Communications Trade; Public Service; Professional Service; Domestic Service; Clerical // Gainful Workers 10 Years and Over by Age and Sex, 1910, 1920, 1930 // Population of Voting Age by Sex, Color, Nativity // Automobile Accident Deaths, Residents and Non-Residents, every year 1912-1939, and more<U+2026>.
Notes: At head of title: ... Office of the City Planning Board ...
Reproduced from type-written copy.
Table of contents: title: I. Population distribution.; title: II. Population trends.