304 Of the Checks to Population Bk. ii. 



mon average in other countries, being about 1 in 

 26.* 



According to the paper of M. Herman already 

 quoted, the proportion of boys dying within the 

 first year is at Petersburg j-, in the government 

 of Tobolsk g3L., in the town of Tobolsk i, in the 

 Archbishopric of Vologda -^, in Novogorod -^-, 

 in Voronesch -^, m Archangel f. The very small 

 mortality of infants in some of these provinces, 

 particularly as the calculation does not seem to 

 be liable to much error, makes the smallness of 

 the general mortality more credible. In Sweden, 

 throughout the whole country, the proportion of 

 infants which die within the first year is £ or 

 more.f 



The proportion of yearly marriages in Russia to 

 the whole population is, according to M. Herman, 

 in the towns, about 1 in 100, and in the provinces 

 about 1 in 70 or 80. According to Mr. Tooke, in 

 the fifteen governments of which he had lists, the 

 proportion was 1 in 92. £ 



This is not very different from other countries. 

 In Petersburg indeed the proportion was 1 in 

 140 ;§ but this is clearly accounted for by what 

 has already been said of the extraordinary number 

 of the males in comparison of the females. 



The registers for the city of Petersburg are sup- 

 posed to be such as can be entirely depended 



* Tooke's View of the Russ. Emp. vol. ii. b. iii. p. 147. 

 f Memoires Abreges de l'Academie de Stockholm, p. 28. 

 + View of Russ. Emp. vol. ii. b. iii. p. 146. 

 § Memoire par W. L. Krafft, Nova Acta Academice, torn. iv. 



