FRENCH STATISTICS.
The statistical tables of births, marrirges, and deaths, for 1879, just published in Paris, compared with 1878, shows scarcely any change, and corroborates the general impression that the French peopled hare almost ceased to multiply. Legitimate births numbered* 869,400 in 1878, and the same again in 1879 ; illegitimate, 66,900 in 1879, and 67,700 in 1878 ; deaths, 839,800 in 1879, and 836,000 in 1878. The total increase of population is 96,000. While illegitimate births throughout France, compared with legitimate, arc 7-J- to 100, in Paris they rise to the proportion of 32 to 100.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2609, 1 August 1881, Page 3
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95FRENCH STATISTICS. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2609, 1 August 1881, Page 3
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