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PRUSSIA 



The following table contains the number of marriages, 

 deaths, and births annually in 10,000 persons, with 

 the rates per cent, of the natural and actual increases, 

 and in the last column the proportion of emigrants to 

 the natural increase. 



In the first of these decades both the death-rates and 

 the marriage-rates were quite abnormal. In the years 

 1870 and 1871 the mortality was greatly raised by 

 Prussia's losses in the field and from sickness in the 

 camp during the war with France; while in 1872 it 



