TABLE 8.-Summary of statistics of public, society, and school libraries of 1,000 volumes and over in 1903.

TABLE 9.-Summary of statistics of public, society, and school libraries of 1,000 volumes and over in 1903.

TABLE 10.-Summary of statistics of public, society, and school libraries of 300 volumes and over, and less than 1,000 volumes, in 1903.

TABLE 11.-Growth of public, society, and school libraries, 1875–1903.

NUMBER OF PEOPLE PER LIBRARY.

United States....

2,039 21,432 2,988

6

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7

10 11 12 13

18,8163,503| 17,8774,026 17,3765,385 14,118,6,869 11,632 North Atlantic division.. 1,127 11,834 1,545 10,2321,769 9.837 2,000 9,659 2,473 8,5103,006' 7,3€6 South Atlantic division 223-29.873 289 28,394 3014 29, 138 322 29,505 421 24,811 548 19,949 South Central division 138 54,712 200 49,219. 229 47,917 255 47,416 374 37,647 484 30,871 North Central division 482 30,804 815, 24,7461,00 21.9241,195 21,1161,728 15,2402,24 12,056 Western division 69 18,907 139 15,791 181 16,727 254 15,256 3871 10,572 547 8,035

47 13,570 74 8.846 86 7.687 93 7,161
1111 6,256, 167, 4,209
54 6,154 78 4,633 87 4.928 122 3.205 143 2.878 169 2.498
33 10.042 42 7.910 51 6,518 67 4,970 96 3,580 119 2.916
307
5,381 4:26 4.539 462 4,846 494 5.415
571 4,913 624 4,763
34 7,595 65 4,681 67 5,157 74 5,162 82 5,226 89: 5,108
67 8,634
6.954 1:26 5,923' 154 5,331 197 4,611 223 4,291
310 14,977 397 13,889 471, 12,734 572 11,463 718 10,122 924 8,290
53 19,234 74' 17,271 90 16.055 94 17,362 154 12,232 200 10,084
222 17.495 291 16,292 329 15,982 330 17,761 401 15,715 491, 13,456

Maryland

TABLE 12.-Growth of public, society, and school libraries, 1875-1903.

NUMBER OF VOLUMES PER 100 INHABITANTS.

N. A. div.:
Me

N.H

Vt

Mass.

R. I
Conn

N. Y
N.J.

Pa

1,980,445 43 2,959, 798
262,993 26 436.581
1,216,507 31 1,900,229

S. A. div.:

Del

Md.

D. C.

Va

26 19,401, 199 35 25,977,643

50 10,722,466 6813,754, 092
27 2,753,420| 34 3,400,818
8 846, 838 9 1,122,366|
14 4,129,203 20 6,259, 810
949,272 45 1,440,557)

28

211,644 33
190,146 57
119.483 36
2,128,724 129
210,063 81
394,750) 68 663.070

41 33,051,872 47 44,591,851 59 54,419,002 68
79 17,647,723 91 23,410,577 11127,805,980 126
38 4,015,087 43 5,303,237 51 6,025,022 55
10 1,360,451 11 1.886,731 13 2,524,283 17
28 8,016,780
43 14,542,460, 53
48 2,011,831
68 3,521,257 80

353,549 54 435,378 66 328, 606 91 415.930 73 204,817 62 273,511 3,489, 159 180 4,452,771 199 5,450,397 204 6,633,285 236 7,616,994 256 387,157 127 457,253 135 580,805 152 700,672 163 851,394 187 97 885, 429 119 1,102,082 134 1,547,667 170 1,824,442 191 54 3,961,848 66 5,251,347 80 7,496,509, 103 9,079,863 119 34 641,686 44 801, 152 49 1,150,774 61 1,464,551 B 40 2,220,306 42 2,964,761 51 3,974,577 63 4,550,312 19 68,533 41 83.763 133,755 70 842,174 143 985, 330 99 1,303,964 105 756,288 508 1,197, 169 588 1,493,055 648 1,793,910 632 2,504,783 899 2,712,693, 925 236,955 17 307,235 19 340,559 21 341,225 20 489,646 26

41,300 31 60,562 39 366,634 43 600,544 61

3211,211,710
52 2,779,596