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Show Inmates of County Jails The Census office has issued a bulletin bul-letin oh the subject of prisoners in coimiy jails. It shows that the total number of prisoners in countv jails June 1. 181)0. was 19.53S; the number reported in 1SS0 was P',('.1, an increase in ten years of G,S47, or at the rate of 5o.'.)5 per cent. The increase in the total population was 4.S0 per cent. In 1.HS0 the ratio of prisoners in county-jails county-jails to the population was 253 in each million; in IStiO it was 312. The increase, in-crease, therefore, has been o!) to the million. The largest increase has been in the north Atlantic division, where it was 9o to the million. Of the total number of pris-' pris-' oners in county jails 13,061 wtre whi'e and 5,577 coloied. Of the latter 5,3'JS I were negroes, 131 Chinese and lbs i Indians. About four fifths of the negro prisoners were in jail in the south Atlantic At-lantic and south central divisionp. Of j the i:$.!'(l w hite prisoners, 0,084 were j native born, and 3,7ir foreign born, ! w hile the birthplace of 512 is unknown, j The foreign population of the country, j or their immediate descendants, the j bulletin says, contributes, directly or j indirectly, 0,813 persons to the popula- timi of the county jails, or 1.234 more I than the entire native white popula- tioir Of the total number of prisoners, j 17,S0I are men and 1,737 women. j Urttda'reel'ii. |