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RACIAL PROBLEMS

IN

HUNGARY

By

SCOTUS VIATOR

Appendice 6

 

 

 

 

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APPENDIX VI

EDUCATION STATISTICS

 

 

 

non-execution of the education laws.

A. — Non-Attendance at School.[1]

 

1869.

1881.

1890.

1900.

1906.

 

 

p.c.

 

p.c.

 

p.c.

 

p.c.

 

p.c.

 

2,304,887

 

2,119,676

 

2,524,569

 

2,936,750

 

3,153,736

 

Children attending

1,093,077

 

1,656,337

 

2,057,812

 

2,384,122

 

2,507,916

79.5

Attending no school

1,211,810

52

463,339

21

466,757

18.4

552,628

l8.8

645,820

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It will be seen that during the last twenty-six years school attendance instead of improving, has grown steadily worse, and the erection of new schools has not even kept pace with the growth of the population despite the appalling growth of emigration in recent years. Magyarization is beyond all question the chief cause of this lamentable state of things.

 B. — Imperfect Attendance at School, and its causes (1905-6).[2]

 

Total Number of

Number of Schools (with pupils) in which Instruction

 

Schools.

Pupils.

Lasted

Lasted  less than Eight Months

 

 

 

9-10 Months.

8.9 Months.

Owing to Infectious Illnesses.

Owing to want of  

Owing to Other Reasons.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Room,

Teachers.

 

State

2,046

290,593

1,387  

207,715

495  

59,762

93

16,791

19  

1,793

10  

605

42  

3,927

Communal

1,473

239,902

662  

161,270

533  

53,025

67

8,593

16  

2,250

21  

1,245

174  

13,519

Confessional

12,734

1,298,358

4,039  

482,502

6,235  

611,418

579

64,920

84  

7,874

211  

12,025

1,386  

119,619

Total

16,561

1,848,176

6,302  

865,551

7,328  

727,631 : 748

91,131

119  

11,917

247  

14,115

1,817  

137,831

 

C. — Illiterates.

 

1869.

1880.

1890.

1900.

 

 

p.c.

 

p.c.

 

p.c.

 

p.c.

Could neither read nor write

8,343,116

63.11

7,844,861

57.14

7,865,604

51,98

8,025,242[3]

47.99

Could only read

1,282,759

9.70

893,857

6.51

542,244

3,58

 

 

Total population

13,219,350

 

13,728,622

 

15,133,494

 

16,721,574

 

From this table it will be seen that though the proportion of illiterates to the total population has steadily decreased, the actual number of illiterates has positively increased during the last thirty years.


 

[1] See Ung. Stat. Jahrb., i. p. 312; x. p. 340 ; xiv. p. 339

[2] Ung. Stat. Jahrb., xiv. (1906), p. 351. Thus not merely do 645,820 children still attend no school at all, but 254,994 of those actually attending are admitted to have attended for less than eight months. How much less is not of course stated, but in many, many cases four months is the maximum.

[3] Arrived at by subtracting literates (see Ung. Stat. Jahrb., ix. p. 301) from total civil population of Hungary (ix. p. 16).