282 
DR. W. FARR'S ENGLISH REPRODUCTION TABLE. 
§ 
t-—— = '01070, or 100,000 spinsters and widows bear 1,070 illegitimate* children. 
/ao + v 20 
Pc 
30 
'30 
30 
/so + V ; 
30 
•24634. 
•33652. 
•02850. 
^=•16303. 
4 40 
8 ~^= -21048. 
U 40 
7 -^—= '01024. 
ho + v io 
Estimated female population of the child-bearing ages in Norway, 1871. 
Ages. 
Total women. 
Wives.+ 
Spinsters 
and widows.+ 
15-55 
475,446 
231,644 
243,802 
15-20 
84,855 
911 
83,944 
20-25 
74,974 
14,701 
60,273 
25-30 
66,583 
32,689 
33,894 
30-35 
55,272 
37,839 
17,433 
35-40 
55,063 
40,932 
14,131 
40-15 
51,170 
39,823 
11,347 
45-50 
46,076 
34,861 
11,215 
50-55 
41,453 
29,888 
11,565 
Births of children at the various ages of their mothers in Norway, 1871-72. 
Ages 
of motliere. 
Births registered. 
Mean of two years, 18 
t 
4* 
71-72. 
After reducing the relative proportions of total 
legitimate and illegitimate births to the same 
as in England, 1871-72. 
Legitimate. 
Illegitimate. 
Total. 
Total. 
Legitimate. 
Illegitimate. 
15-55 
47,027 
4,649 
51,676 
51,676 
48,826 
2,850 
15-20 
277 
210 
487 
487 
358 
129 
20-25 
5,216 
1,654 
6,870 
6,870 
5,856 
1,014 
25-30 
11,493 
1,539 
13,032 
13,032 
12,089 
943 
30-35 
11,650 
717 
12,367 
12,367 
11,927 
440 
35-40 
10,669 
348 
11,017 
11,017 
10,804 
213 
40-45 
6,219 
145 
6,364 
6,364 
6,275 
89 
45-50 
1.446 
32 
1,478 
1,478 
1,458 
20 
50-55 
57 
4 
61 
61 
59 
2 
* The terms legitimate and illegitimate in this paper are used in a sense to some extent conventional, 
since posthumous children, though legitimate, are counted with the illegitimate. 
f The population at the several ages is here divided into the classes of married and unmarried in the 
same proportions as existed at the Census of 1865. 
J There were 11,750 births of legitimate and 2,550 of illegitimate children the ages of whose mothers 
were not stated; they have been distributed proportionally over all the ages. 
