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 RELIGION

891

The percentage of stillborn to total births in Hungary is 2*3 in 1897. The rate of illegitimacy is 9"1 per cent, of the whole.

The following are the emigration statistics of Hungary for five years : —

Year

Through Hamburg and Bremen

Accorfling to United States statistics

1893 1894 1895 1896 1897

13,566

5,427

17,536

14,808

9,676

26,219 9,000 23,684 25,879 13,791

III. — -Principal Towns.

The following were the civil and military populations of the principal towns on December 31, 1890 : —

Budapest

505,763

Pecs (Fiinfkirchen)

35,449

Szeged

87,410

Kolozsvar (Klausenburg) 34,858

Szabadka

73,526

Mako.

32,669

Debreczen.

58,952

Brasso (Kronstadt)

32,549

Pozsony (Pressburg)

56,048

j\Iiskolcz

32,288

Hod-Mezo-Yasarhely

55,626

Bekes-Csaba.

32,244

Kecskemet.

49,600

Kassa

32,165

Arad.

43,682

Szentes

30,797

Temesvar

43,438

Felegyhaza.

30,444

Nagyvarad (Grosswarde

in) 40,750

Fiume ,

30,337

Zagrab (Agram). ,

40,268

Religion.

In Hungary there is perfect equality among all legally recog- nised religions. These are : — The Roman and Greek Catholic, the Evangelical (Augsburg and Helvetian), the Greek-Oriental, the Gregorian- Armenian, the Unitarian, and the Jewish. Each has the independent administration of its own affairs.

The following figures relate to 1897 for Hungary Proper : —

'riests secular : —

Memljers of orders : —

Roman Catholic Church

. 5,276

Male

. 2,323

Greek Catholic Church

. 2,251

Female.

. 3,165

Greek Oriental Church

. 2,236

Protestant clergy

. 3,569

Jewish clergy

. 1,601