┌─────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ Countries. │ Inhabitant. │ ├─────────────────────┼──────────────┬─────────────────┬──────────────┤ │ │For one Death.│For one Marriage.│For one Birth.│ ├─────────────────────┼──────────────┼─────────────────┼──────────────┤ │Department of Orne │ 52·4│ 147·5│ 44·8│ │Department of │ 30·4│ 113·9│ 26·0│ │ Finisterre │ │ │ │ │Namur │ 51·8│ 141·0│ 30·1│ │Province of Zealand │ 28·5│ 113·2│ 21·9│ └─────────────────────┴──────────────┴─────────────────┴──────────────┘ He states that he had often been tempted to attribute these discrepancies to a faulty census of the population; but more attentive researches had induced him to believe that this state of things is dependent on local causes. M. Bossi, in the Statisque du Department le l’Ain, gives a striking example of the effect of the locality. With a view to study the influences of locality, he divided the department into four portions; and from documents collected during the years 1812, 1813, and 1814, he obtained the following results:— Inhabitants. ———————————— ———————————— ———————————— To 1 Death To 1 To 1 Birth annually. Marriage annually. annually. In mountain parishes 38·3 179 34·8 On the seaside 26·6 145 28·8 In corn districts 24·6 135 27·5 In stagnant and marshy districts 20·8 107 26·1 Notwithstanding the depression of many districts, and the decrease of health amongst the classes in the manufacturing towns from which a large proportion of conscripts are taken, the annual proportions of deaths appear to have decreased. In 1784, from researches taken in France under Necker’s directions, it appeared that there was one birth for every 25·56 inhabitants In 1784, from researches taken in France under Necker’s directions, it appeared that there was one death for every 30·02 inhabitants From 1816 to 1831 there was one birth only for every 32 inhabitants One death 39·8 inhabitants