war's effect upon education and ijterature 



85 



signiflcant. Crime in general decreasecl 14 per cent in 1870, convict- 

 ions 15 per cent, tbefts 9 per cent and suicides 11 per cent. Astbefts 

 include the ligliter forms of crime, these percentages are in accord 

 with the theory based iipon Prussian statistics, that the more serious 

 the crime the less there is of it in war relative to other crime. Civil 

 law suits and divorce suits foUow, as the rule, the proceedings in 

 criminal courts, as indicated in last part of table 25. 



TABLK 25. — Crimes in Badén ' 

 Population in 1867 : 1.438.872; iu 1871 : 1.461.562 (1.5 o/o inorease) 



Crime in general 



Convictiona in general . . . 



Tiiefts 



Divorces 



Suicides 



Law suits in Civil Courts. 



11.601 

 6.304 

 5.712 



» 



193 



11.801 



5.991 



5.497 



» 



209 



12.450 



6.602 



5.089 



97 



221 



32.245 



"War time 



10.647 



5.580 



4.617 



93 



195 



30.944 



11.374 



6.072 



5.479 



108 



208 



31.064 



Peace time 



12.811 

 6 . 845 

 6 . 022 



14.455 

 8.072 

 6.344 



» 



203 



WAE AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS 



WAR IN RELATION TO BIRTH, DEATH AND MARRIAGE RATES 



Table 26 gives the birth, death and marriage rates of England, 

 Scotland and Ireland and of the United Kingdom, for theyears 1913, 

 1914 and 1915. 



In the last column of the table are given the decreases in birth rate 

 and increases of death and marriage rate from 1914 to 1915, which 

 are doubtless due mainly to the war. It will be noted also that the 

 decreases and increases vary according as the countries are said to 

 have taken part in the war. Thus, the increase of death rate (1.7) and 

 marriage rate (3.6) of England and Wales are greater than those of 

 Scotland, which in turn exceeds that of Ireland. The only exception 

 is the large decrease in birth rate (2.2) of Scotland. The large increase 

 of marriage rate for England and Wales should be noted. 



* Statistisches Jahrbuch fiir das Grosslierzogtlium Badén, 1871, Carlsruhe, 1873. 



