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GERMAN EMPIRE: — PRUSSIA
II. Movement of the Population.
The following table shows the movement of the population years.
for the five
Year
Marriages
Total Births 1 Still-bom
1
Illegitimate
Total Deaths incl. Still- born
Surplus of Births
1892 1893 1894 1895 1896
245,447 248,348 250,960 253,729 264,822
1 1,143,904 1 37,401 1,195,293 39,043 1,182,833! 39,789 1,208,215 40,288 1,226,107 40,823
88,287 92,092 94,022 93,432 97,305
752,055 785,520 719,582 729,917 707,500
391,849 409,773 463,251 478,298 518,607
In 1896 3 '33 per cent, of the total births were still-born, and 7 '94 percent, illegitimate.
The emigration from Prussia by German ports, Dutch ports, and Antwerp was in 1892, 76,196; in 1893, 53,471 ; in 1894, 24,203 ; in 1895, 20,564; in 1896, 19,459 ; and in 1897, 13,497. The following table, indicating the emigrants from each province in 1897, shows that the northern provinces contribute most largely :—
Hanover
2,321
Hesse-Nassau
928
Brandenburg (with
Berlin)
2,024
Silesia .
726
Posen .
1,560
Saxony
726
Rhine .
1,166
Westphalia .
480
Schleswig-Holstein
1,155
East Prussia
456
Pomerania .
979
Hohenzollern
14
West Prussia
962
III. Principal Towns.
The following table gives the population of the principal towns as at the census of December 2, 1895 : —
Towns
Population
Towns
Population
Berlin
1,677,304
Krefeld
107,245
Breslau
373,163
Essen ....
96,128
Cologne (Koln) .
321,564
Kiel ....
85,6Q6
Frankfort-on-Main
229,279
Kassel
81,752
Magdeburg .
214,424
Erfurt
78,174
Hanover
209,535
Wiesbaden ,
74,133
Dtisseldorf .
175,985
Posen
73,239
Konigsberg .
172,796
Duisburg .
70,272
Altona
148,944
Gorlitz
70,175
Stettin
140,724
Frankfort-on-Oder
59,161
Elberfeld .
139,337
Potsdam
58,455
Charlottenburg .
132,377
Miiuster
57,135
Barmen
126,992
Spandau
55,841
Danzig
125,605
Bochum
53,842
Halle-on-Saale .
116,304
Miinchen Gladbach ' .
53,662
Dortmund .
111,232
Liegnitz
51,518
Aachen
110,551
