246 FLORIDA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY- ITH ANNUAL REPORT

race and nativity. The figures for 1900 are not quite -as accurate as those for 1910, for the former census did not give the total number of persons over 10 in each county, and that has been estiniated, on the assumption that the proportions of different'age
groups were the same as in 1910. The counties used in computing the regional averages are the same as already stated in the regional descriptions. Three regions are represented by two or three counties each, five by only one, and two not at all.
 As in all other tables from here on in which different regions are contrasted, the highest number in each line is printed in heavy type and the lowest in italics, to show which regions lead or lag behind in any one particular.

 TABLE 24.
 Percentages of illiteracy in the adult male population of central Florida in 1910, and in the total population over 10 in 1900, 1910 and 1915, by regions, race and nativity.



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 ADULT MALES, 1910 j 1
All classes ---------------- 12.41 19-51 16.21 18.91 11.41 7.81 9.41 8.5 11.31 13.9
All whites ---------------I 3.51 6.31 2.01 4.11 2.21 5.5 3.71 17 4.01 5.3
Native whites ------------ 3.6] 5.71 1.71 3.71 2.21 1.21 3.81 1.41 2.2 4.9
Foreign whites -----------I o I 18.91 6.21 9.81 1.81 11.31 1.9 3.711 10.31 8.2
Negroes --------------- 27.41 30.21 26.01 34.9 25.61 T6.ol 32.11 21.011 24.01 25.9
 PERSONS OVER 10
 1900
All classes -------------- 15.81 21.0 21.41 21.01 12.41 11.11 12.21 6.6 15.01 21.9
All whites --------------- 4.0 10.11 2.61 6.11 4.31 6.91 8.21 1.711 5.41 8.9
Native whites, with native I I i
 parents ---------------- 4.21 9.71 2.61 6.3 4.9 2.01 8.511.8 4 9.0
Native whites, foreign or I I I I I I I 8 .
 mixed parents ---------- 1.21 6.91 0.6 3.01 0.71 2.61 2.41 1.511 2.1 3.6
Foreign whites ------------0 1 26.0 4.3 6.71 2.41 19.11 5.71 0.911 14.7 11.6
Negroes -----------------_ 34.9 35.2 32.31 46.01 26.6 24.61 39-71 17-911 31.11 38.4
 1910
All classes --------------_ 11.0 18.xl 14.4! 15.21 9.91 8.11 7.9 6-31 10.31 13.8
All whites ---------------_ 2.9] 6.21 1.7! 3.31 1.91 6.21 3.61 1.411 4.11 5.5
Native whites -----------_ 3.01 5.91 1.61 3.11 1.9] 1.71 3.61 1.11 2.21 5.0
Foreign whites -----------I o I 14.81 4.81 S.91 1.71 15.3! 3.21 4.511 13.51 10.5
Negroes ---------------- 26.91 30.0! 22.9T 31.21 23.01 14.71 29.11 17-11] 21.81 25.5
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All classes ---------------1 14.6] 14.01 17.1 13.2 ? 1 6.81 2.5] 4.211 9.81 14.7
White ------------------.- 3.31 4.8] 2.41 2.11 1.1! 4.01 0.41 0.611 2.51 4.4
Colored --- -- I 36.61 24.2] 27.81 33.4 ? 1 18.31 13.21 13.311 25.2] 30.6