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MASS. EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETIN 340 



Trend in Population, Industrial Establishments, and Wage Earners, 1837 - 1933 



1895 = 100 



20 27 33 



Milton. With rapidly increasing 

 population, the number of establish- 

 ments and employees has been on the 

 decline until 1927. Since then there 

 has been some increase in these items 

 to the end of the period. 



Natick. The population shows a 

 gradual rise, but the number of em- 

 ployees has been declining since 1920. 



Needham. Since 1885 the popu- 

 lation has been rapidly increasing. 

 The number of employees rose gradu- 

 ally until 1927, but declined into 1933. 



North Attleboro. Since 1895 

 when North Attleboro became an in- 

 dependent town, the population and 

 number of employees have been on 

 the increase, but the latter declined in 

 the depression period. 



95 03 10 20 27 33 



Norwood. Beginning with 1875 

 when statistics became available, both 

 population and number of employees 

 showed a very rapid rise. After 

 reaching its peak in 1920 the number 

 of employees shows a slight decline. 



73 CS 85 05 lO 2 27 33 



