The debt per capita is as high as the cost of current administration relatively to other cities.
On the 18th of January 1906 the currency in circulation amounted to $502,420,485, which is more than $95 per capita.
The state apportionment to the districts was $5 per capita of school population in 1906-07, and was $6 in 1907-08.
The following table gives the total and the per capita cost of each enumeration.
According to a special report of the census the cost of the city government of Milwaukee in 1906 was smaller per capita than that of any other city in the country with a population of over 300,000.