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 AREA AND POPULATION

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The German languago is spoken by the majority of inlialjitants in fifteen cantons, the French in live, the Italian in one (Tessin), and the Ronmansch in one (tlie Grisons). In 1888 2,083,097 spoke German, 634,613 French, 155,130 Italian, and 38,357 Ronmansch. The number of foreigners resident in Switzerland at the date of the census was 229,650, of whom 112,342 were German, 53,627 French, 41,881 Italian, 13,737 Austrian, 2,577 British. 1,354 Russian.

The chief occupations of the population in 1888, with the numbers em- ployed, their families and domestic servants, were: —

Occupation

Men

Women

Men and Women

Members of Family

Domestic Servants

16,357

Total

Agi-iculture.

388,467

92,566

481,033

609,040

1,106,430

Jliniug, sylviculture, Ac.

10,682

28

10,710

16,482

243

27,435

Food manufacture.

37,363

6,752

44,115

52,531

4,703

101,349

Dress, dkc.

40,666

67,534

108,200

76,456

2,041

186,697

Building and furniture.

105,747

1,620

107,367

162.353

3,763

273,483

Textiles ....

61,087

106,435

167,522

99,723

2.901

270,146

Machinery

66,897

15,075

81,972

113,256

3,274

198,502

Chemicals, bookbinding,

(fee

15,873

2,743

18,616

24,449

1,347

44,412

Tra<le ....

54,037

38,256

92,293

103,484

17,730

213,507

Transport

45,689

2,307

47,996

77,825

2,175

127,996

Public officials, sciences,

(fee

35,817

14,836

50,653

64,084

12,689

127,426

Not determinable.

6,608

8,261

14,869

12,416

1,254

28,539

No relation to occupation Total.

12,679

36.022

48,701

151,304

11,827

211,832

881,612

392,435

1,274,047

1,563,403

80,304

2,917,754

II. Movement of Population.

The following table gives the total number of births, deaths, and marriages, with the surplus of births over deaths, in live years: —

Years

Total Births

Stillbirths

jrarriages

Deaths

Surplus of Births over Deaths

1893 1894 1895 1896 1897

88,100 87,317 88,184 91,673 93,369

3,203 3,175 3,211 3,246 3,291

21,884 22,188 22,682 23,784 24,954

61,059 61,885 59,747 56,096 59,690

23,838 22,257 25,226 32,331 33,679

In 1897 the illegitimate births numbered 4,424, or 4 7 per cent. The number of divorces was 1,012, or 2"13 per thousand of existing marriages.

The number of cmigi-ants in five years was: — 1894, 3,849; 1895, 4,268; 1896, 3,330; 1897, 2,508; 1898, 2,288. In 1896 the most numerous class of emigrants was that of those employed in agricultuie, 977; domestic servants, 284; those in trade, 263; innkeepers^ 178; tailors, 129. Of the whole number, 2,007 were males, of whom 415 were married, and 1,323 were females, of whom 369 were married. The cantons which supplied the largest contingents of emigi-ants in 1897, were Bern, 470; Zurich