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GERMAN EMPIRE: — PRUSSIA

II. Movement of the Population.

The following table shows the movement of the population years.

for the five

Year

Marriages

Total Births 1 Still-bom

1

Illegitimate

Total Deaths incl. Still- born

Surplus of Births

1892 1893 1894 1895 1896

245,447 248,348 250,960 253,729 264,822

1 1,143,904 1 37,401 1,195,293 39,043 1,182,833! 39,789 1,208,215 40,288 1,226,107 40,823

88,287 92,092 94,022 93,432 97,305

752,055 785,520 719,582 729,917 707,500

391,849 409,773 463,251 478,298 518,607

In 1896 3 '33 per cent, of the total births were still-born, and 7 '94 percent, illegitimate.

The emigration from Prussia by German ports, Dutch ports, and Antwerp was in 1892, 76,196; in 1893, 53,471 ; in 1894, 24,203 ; in 1895, 20,564; in 1896, 19,459 ; and in 1897, 13,497. The following table, indicating the emigrants from each province in 1897, shows that the northern provinces contribute most largely :—

Hanover

2,321

Hesse-Nassau

928

Brandenburg (with

Berlin)

2,024

Silesia.

726

Posen.

1,560

Saxony

726

Rhine.

1,166

Westphalia.

480

Schleswig-Holstein

1,155

East Prussia

456

Pomerania.

979

Hohenzollern

14

West Prussia

962

III. Principal Towns.

The following table gives the population of the principal towns as at the census of December 2, 1895 : —

Towns

Population

Towns

Population

Berlin

1,677,304

Krefeld

107,245

Breslau

373,163

Essen ....

96,128

Cologne (Koln).

321,564

Kiel ....

85,6Q6

Frankfort-on-Main

229,279

Kassel

81,752

Magdeburg.

214,424

Erfurt

78,174

Hanover

209,535

Wiesbaden ,

74,133

Dtisseldorf.

175,985

Posen

73,239

Konigsberg.

172,796

Duisburg.

70,272

Altona

148,944

Gorlitz

70,175

Stettin

140,724

Frankfort-on-Oder

59,161

Elberfeld.

139,337

Potsdam

58,455

Charlottenburg.

132,377

Miiuster

57,135

Barmen

126,992

Spandau

55,841

Danzig

125,605

Bochum

53,842

Halle-on-Saale.

116,304

Miinchen Gladbach '.

53,662

Dortmund.

111,232

Liegnitz

51,518

Aachen

110,551