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Interesting Statistics Bohemians Live in All Wards of Chicago

DennĂ­ Hlasatel, July 28, 1912

At the last meeting of the School Board, a report of the school census was presented, according to which Chicago now has 2,381,700 inhabitants.

The school census, which was under the direction of Mr. William L. Bodine, shows that in Chicago there are 882,516 persons who have not yet reached maturity; of these 443,854 are male and 438,662 are female.

Bohemians are listed as having 3,666 foreign-born and 42,745 American-born persons under twenty-one years of age.

We hereby express our thanks for these reports to our Bohemian school 2commissioner, Mr. J. B. Dibelka, who was so kind as to furnish us with a copy of this detailed school census report. Mr. Dibelka is a member of several important committees in the Board of Education. He is a member of the real-estate committee, chairman of the committee on vocational training courses, etc., Mr. Dibelka worked for the introduction of the Bohemian language as a course of study in the Chicago high schools. He informs us that teaching of the Bohemian language will be started in two high schools after the summer vacation. Teachers of the Bohemian language will be appointed next month.

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