AREA AND POPULATION.
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Principal Towns
Population
Principal Towns
Population
Naples
447,065
Florence
114,363
Milan
242,457
Bologna
109,395
Turin
204.715
Messina.
103,324
Rome ....
201,161
Leghorn
96,471
Palermo
194,463
Catania
68,810
Genoa
127,986
Ferrara
67,9S8
The population of the city of Venice and its dependent islands, inscribed on the registers of the municipality on the 31st December 1864, amounted to 122,942 inhabitants, composed of
Native Males, present 54,212
„ Females „ . 59J072
„ Males, absent . . . . . . .1.521
,, Females ,, . . . . . . . 913
115,71!
Strangers ......... 7 224
Total .... 122,942 -The number of inhabitants of the city of Rome is ascertained every year at Easter, in an enumeration made by means of the parish priests, who keep the registers of souls. At Easter, 1869 the population of Rome was 220,532. Exclusive of 10,207 soldiers' 328 prisoners, 637 ' heterodox persons,' and 4,682 Jews, the popu- lation was returned at 204,678. The latter total comprised 105,569 men and 99,109 women; 7,480 clergy and ' religious,' and 197.198 belonging to the Civil State. The births were stated as 5,276, or 23-9 per 1,000 of population; the deaths at 5,874, or 26-6 per 1,000; the marriages at 1,564, or 7"1 per 1,000 during the year past. The returns of ] 869 stated that there were in the city of Rome 22 seminaries and ecclesiastical colleges, containing 841 persons; 61 religious institutions for men, containing 2,959, and 72 for women, containing 2,256 persons; nine lay colleges, con- taining 298 persons; 68 conservatoires, nunneries, &c, containing 1,738 persons; seven charity institutions for men, containing 878, and 12 for women, containing 1,216 persons.
The population of the States comprising the present kingdom of Italy, with the exception of Venetia and the Roman territory, amounted to, in the year 1788 : —
Sardinian States ...... 3,200 000
Lombardy
Tuscany .
Parma and Modena
Bomagna .
Umbria and the Marches
Naples and Sicily
Total
1,100.000
1,000,000
570,000
140,000
620,000
6,000,000
12,630,000
