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PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION.
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marriages than usual to take place, supposing the number of houses to remain the same, instead of five or six to a cottage, there must be seven or eight, and this, added to the necessity of harder living, would probably have a very unfavourable effect on the health of the common people.


Neumark of Brandenburgh.
 
  Annual Average.     Births.     Burials.     Marriages.     Proportion  
of Births to  
  Marriages.  
  Proportion  
  of Births to  
  Burials.  
5 yrs to 1701 5433 3483 1436 37 to 10 155 to 100
5 yrs to 1726 7012 4254 1713 40 to 10 164 to 100
5 yrs to 1756 7978 5567 1891 42 to 10 143 to 100


"Epidemics prevailed for six years, from 1736, to 1741, which checked the increase."


Dukedom of Magdeburgh.
 
  Annual Average.     Births.     Burials.     Marriages.     Proportion  
of Births to  
  Marriages.  
  Proportion  
  of Births to  
  Burials.  
5 yrs to 1702 6431 4103 1681 38 to 10 156 to 100
5 yrs to 1717 7590 5335 2076 36 to 10 142 to 100
5 yrs to 1756 8,850 8,069 2,193 40 to 10 109 to 100

 

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