“The Rhenish provinces alone, then, have nearly twice as many as the four Eastern provinces together! This explains the figure, 5.59, for this district given in the table above, taken in connection with the noteworthy care given to the poor. Can the connection between the ratios given above and those of the occurrence of crimes against property be denied?” [56] In this connection he treats of housing conditions, for which he gives the following figures. Dwellings to 1 league: Posen 258 Rhenish Provinces 901 Prussia 230 Brandenburg 304 Pomerania 218 Westphalia 579 Silesia 546 Saxony 529 Total 1252 Total 2313 A more detailed summary of the number of inhabitants shows us that there were: =================+======+========+==========+========+=======+============+===========+======= |Posen.|Prussia.|Pomerania.|Silesia.|Rhenish|Brandenburg.|Westphalia.|Saxony. | | | | | Prov. | | | -----------------+------+--------+----------+--------+-------+------------+-----------+------- |Inhab.| Inhab. | Inhab. | Inhab. | Inhab.| Inhab. | Inhab. | Inhab. | | | | | | | | In each dwelling | 9.8 | 9.8 | 10.1 | 7.9 | 6.9 | 10.0 | 7.2 | 7.5 In the cities | 11.2 | 13.2 | 11.6 | 13.3 | 10.4 | 14.0 | 8.7 | 9.8 In the hamlets | 8.8 | 10.6 | 10.0 | 8.1 | 6.1 | 9.6 | 7.0 | 6.8 In the villages | 9.3 | 8.4 | 9.3 | 7.0 | 5.7 | 7.7 | 6.7 | 6.5 =================+======+========+==========+========+=======+============+===========+======= In these figures von Valentini sees a parallelism with those for small holdings, and draws the conclusion that this isolation of households is one of the best preventives of crimes against property. VIII. A. VON OETTINGEN. [57] In chapter IV (“Die ungeordnete Geschlechtsgemeinschaft und die Prostitution”), the author treats of the influence of the fluctuations of price in certain important articles of food upon crimes against property, against morals, against persons, and incendiary crimes (Prussia). [58] Percentage.