The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-16
MARRIAGE STATISTICS.
When and Where Men and Women Marry
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DR.. Bertillon, q French physician, has re-
Gently published work containing the re-
suits of his studies of the comparative statis-
tics OF matrimony and celibacy, considered
from many points OF view. In estimating
the chances of marriage he has worked upon
the plan OF comparison, not by groups only,
but by groups and corresponding ages OF
ceibates, widows and widowers, and divorced
persons at the same period OF life. He has
also spread his researches over several cOun-
seems to have found the requisite figures
more accessible. In Holland, then, men be-
tween the ages OF % and a marry in the
ratio Of 46 to the 1000 per annum. while
those who have already become widowers at
that age marry again in the ratio Of 213 to
the 1000. Marriage by men is most eagerly
sought between the ages OF Is and 80, the
ratio then being 10 to the 1000, and of
the widowers between the same ages 1927 to
the 1000. From the age of 35 the
chances Of marriage diminish, but those
OF the widowers always remain three or four
times greater than those Of the celibates
Singularly enough, the chances Of divorced
persons for remarriage are greater than
either. From 80 to 80 their chances for mar
rage exceed those Of celibateS in the ratio OF
1856 to 112, and continue to increase very rap
idly until the age OF As, when they are six
times greater than those of celibates, and sur
pass even those of widowers. The records Of
the parish registers of Switzerland show sim
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any age four times more frequently than the
celibates al the same period Of life, and after
the age of As the chance Of marriage of d.
vorced persons are even greater than those Of
widowers. Among women the same facts ex-
ist, although In minor degree. In Holland,
from the age of IS to q the chances of mar
rage for widows are double those Of maidens.
From Is to 20 the marriages are most numer-
Gus, but those Of the widows still remain the
greater Between the ages Of 80 and SIS the
chances of divorced persons exceed even those
of widows, and are from two to five times
greater than those OF maidens. These results
are confirmed by a comparison with the regis
tiers of Switzerland.
More generally speaking, he says that In
France, Italy and Belgium, the greatest fire.
quency of marriage among men ls from the
age Of Is to 35 In England 1t is from 20 to
| 3d. In Paris, however the number OF mar
riages only reaches its maximum among
| those past 40. and among women past %
and this surpasses that OF the whole country
| In France, too, comparison between the
ages of married couples shows that the ma
| jority of women past 80 take younger hus.
bands than themselves; husbands OF 60 gen,
orally choose wives under 40. When the
| man is Is, the wife is six or seven years
younger. Women who marry men of from
| 10 to so, are generally about twelve years
younger than their husbands, and twenty
years younger than husband Of Co. That is
to say, the older the husband, the younger
the wife. The fecundity Of marriages is not
| far from double as large in England as II
France. As mortality, DR.. Bertillon says