Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 13, 16 January 1894 — SOCIAL STATISTICS. [ARTICLE]

SOCIAL STATISTICS.

* * Carrol D. Wright has a ralu- : 9 1 *ble paper inihe PopuIarScience { Montbiy respecting aoeial stati* * stics of cities. based upon the r ■ last census figures. He gives • the population and area of fifty r ! cities. with distribution of popu- i 5 ; Ution by sqnare miles and acres. j r ! New Tork contains an area of 25. j * 640 acres; Ghicago, 102, 764, 5 ! acres; Philadelphia. 82. 809 1 acres; Brooklyn, 16, 934; Balti1 more, 18,16320, Boston. 22,579. j ( New Tork contains a popnlaiion 9 to eaeh acre of 58.87; Chicago, * * 10.70;V Phi!adelphia, 1*2.64; 0 Brooklyn, 47.62; Boston, 19.86; a Baltimore, 23.92. Comparisons r | with regard to density of popur ‘ Uiion of different cities caonot * be made with any accuracy unless y the exact area of dense popu- * | Uiion is known. In twenty-two r | of the cities name the population 0 I is 15.9 to the acre. r Boston, Worcester and Holy1 oke are cities in whieh all the \ a streets, Mr. Wrigbt says, are * paved. Denver has no paved i streets; Dallas, Tex, 4.7 of its r | streets paved; St. Paul,4.1;and 0 i Minneapolis, 3.1. The average 0 | early cost of construction and I m * » I 1 j repairs per head of population in i cities having over 100,000 inhabi- ; * tants is 11.54. The average ‘ auaual expenditure for street - ; cleaning varies from five cents in f Butfalo and eight cents in Chi1 cago to seventy-one cents in New t; Tork and 62 cents in Cincinnati. t j The annual cost of eaeh electric , i lamp various from $68 in,Chicago j and $58.46 in Denver to $237.25 r in Boston and $440.67 in San , Francisco. In thirty-five cities ) : owning their own water works the | average cost of constructions to f | eaeh head of population is $21.36 ) i The cities of Washington and 3 j Cambridge have more miles of , i sewers than of streets. In New - I Tork there are 72.65 patrolmen , to eaeh square mile of t€rritory, ’ in Chicago. 93; Philadelphia, 11.01; Brooklyn, 34.01; St. Louis k 18.72; Rostou 19.25: Baltimore, 1 21.81; New Orleans, 4.66; Wash- ’ ington, 35.64. In New Tork, the i number of arrests to eaeh patrolr man is 25.53; iu Chicago, 27.37. - Pbiladelphia, 35.09; Brooklyn, ( 31.52; St. Louis. 32.98; Boston, i 48.41. The fire department l costs per head in New York, 5 $1.06; Chicago. 0.64; Philadel- . phia, 0.60; Brofoklyn, 0.70; St. Louis, 0.62; Bosten, 1.78; Balti- . more, 0.35.