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Statistic Views (yfthe Mortality 



Table of the proportion of deaths to the population^ and of the 

 annual mortality among each miUion of inhabitants in tJie 

 principal States of Europe. 



According to this table, and many others of a more detailed 

 nature, there annually dies : 



1 inhabitant in 28 in the Roman State, and the ancient Venetian pro» 

 vinces ; 1 in 30 in Italy in general, Greece, and Turkey ; 1 in 39 in the Ne- 

 therlands, France, and Prussia ; 1 in 40 in Switzerland, the Austrian Empire, 

 Portugal, and Spain ; 1 in 44 in European Russia and Poland ; 1 in 45 in Ger- 

 many, Denmark, and Sweden; 1 in 48 in Norway; 1 in 53 in Iceland; 

 1 in 58 in England ; 1 in 59 in Scotland and Iceland. 



These numbers present the following results : 

 The smallest chances of life and its shortest duration are not, 

 as one might believe, amongst the effects of the rigorous cli- 

 mate of Norway, or the marshy soil of Ireland ; it is in the 

 beautiful climate of Italy that life is reduced to its minimum 

 extent. On the contrar}^, it is among the icy rocks of Iceland, 

 in the midst of the eternal fogs of Scotland, where man attains 

 his greatest age. 



Of all the European States, the British isles are, in this re- 

 pcct, the most favoured ; of each million of inhabitants, they only 



