The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-09
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

Chrious Statistics of the Inst Half Century.
The Vienna correspondent of an English
paper writes:
"In the fifty years between 1910 and 1861
the population of Vienna more than doubled;
mainly through the immigration of foreigners,
to the number of 20g $50 persons. These in
cluded the immigrants from the provinces of
the Empire, Hungary, Bohemia, Venetia,
Galicia, etc. But while the population has
doubled within the last half century, the num-
ber of houses has increased only by one-third
from the 1000 already erected in the year
1910. OF the children born within the same
period there has been a surplus of boys over
girls-no less thans s15, 8SS;while the proportion
of illegitimate to legitimate births has
been steadily on the increase. On an
average of the fifty years, 92S more men
died than women every year, making
in all 4S,557 more men and boys
than women and girls The population in SGi
had reached the number of $50, 241, and is
now roughly estimated at 100000. OF the
Former return 459, no were Roman Catholics,
T,61S Jews, 1889 Lutheran Evangelical,
2221 Reformed Church, 1913 Greek Church,
III Armenians, "a Unitarians, and 93 pro-
fesing II is oellaneous creeds-Mohamedan
Fire Worship, the Goddess of Reason, etc.
Since the Prussian conquests of 1866, the
opulation-especially its Israelitish element
has been greatly augmented by immigration
from Frankfort, Saxony. Nassau, Hesse
and other lands that have passed under the
dominion of the Pickehaube; while illegiti-
macy has reached the eliminating point
fifty-two per cent. of all the children born in
the Kaiserstadt last year having been bas-
tards-a rate that leaves the alleged profigacy
of Paris, Pesth, Florence, Naples, and Bucha-
lest far in the rear.
During the half century in question one
II H.. 4
age of 112, and one old lady that of 116
while thirteen persons have passed the hun
dred and fifth year, and seventy-four of both
sexes have overstepped the limits of CEN
tury. The percentage of marriages has,
regret to say, decreased to one-half of the
proportion it bore to the population in 1910.
Hungary is notable for inconceivable
backwardness in civilization. The population
of Hungary averages per square (German)
mile 2800, against 3200 in Western Austria,
although the latter contains much mountain
GUS and uninhabitable country while the
former consists of chiefly fiat and easily-cult-
vated land. Forty per cent. of this popula-
ton is married, against 36 per cent. in the
Austrian monarchy (proper). To every 100,-
600 inhabitants are annually born 1887 children
against 1866 in the monarchy, and 3490 in
Great Britain), Hungary, being the most phi
loprogenitive of all European Kingdoms; and
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girls nor are illegitimate births SO frequent
as in Austria proper
''Of every 100000 inhabitants, there die
yearly in Great Britain 22OO, in France 1880,
in Prussia 29OO, but in Magyar-Hungary
5240 that is, twice and half times as many
respectively as in England, and 10, 700 males
to every 1O, 900 females. In the sister cities
of Pesth- Ofen, in which resides all that is
most civilized of the Hungarian nation, of
1000 children born in the twin capitals, 4S7
die within twelve months of their birth, and
in one year (1SG3), of 9402 children under five
years of age, 457S, or more than half, died
''In the year 1868 (since which reliable sta
tistics are wanting) there perished by vio-
lence in Pesth and twenty other Hungarian
counties four thousand and seventy-six hu.
man beings, of whom ffty-seven were pub
hcly executed, against nineteen done to deatf
by the eXecutioner in Austria proper, Galicia
Dalmatia, and Venetia combined.
''In Hungary half the force of the laborint
classes is wasted in unnecessary labor, result
ing from the abominable condition of tn
roads and other means of communication
throughout the country. The horses use
for the traction are SO weakly built and in
capable of enduring severe fatigue, tina
twice as much time as is needful is consume
in performing land carriage over roads tina
would disgrace Asiatic Turkey"