TABLE 21.-Public kindergartens in cities of over 8,000 inhabitants-Continued.

TABLE 21.-Public kindergartens in cities of over 8,000 inhabitants-Continued.

City.

TABLE 23.-Statistics of population and school enrollment and attendance in cities of over 8,000 inhabitants in 1896-97.

TABLE 23.-Statistics of population and school enrollment and attendance in cities of over 8,000 inhabitants in 1896–97—Continued.

Belleville.

Bloomington
Cairo..
Canton

* Statistics of 1895-96.

† Statistics of 1894-95.

18,500 25,000

6-21 5,783

1, 200

1, 470 1,325

2,795

2,420 199

481.580

6-21 7,878

500

1,919

2,054

3,973

3,221 177

570, 117

15, 500 12,000

6-21 3,792

3921

983

1, 1011

b Estimated.

a Population in 1890.

* 131, 974

e Embracing the white schools of the city and all the suburban schools.

d Embracing the colored schools of the city.