Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAP. III. Of the Checks to Population in Russia. 1 HE lists of births, deaths and marriages in Russia, present such extraordinary results that it is impossible not to receive them with a considerable degree of suspicion; at the same time the regular manner in which they have been collected, and their agreement with each other in different years, entitle them to attention. In a paper presented in 1768, by B. F. Herman, to the academy of Petersburgh, and published in the Nova Acta Accidentia, torn, iv., a comparison is made of the births, deaths and marriages in the different provinces and towns of the empire, and the following proportions are given: In Petersburgh the births are to the burials as 13 to 10 In the government of Moscow, 21 -- 10 District District of Moscow excepting the town 21 to 10s Tver 26--1(3 Novogorod 20 -- 10 Pskovsk > 22 -- 10 Resan . 20 -- 10 Veronesch . 29 -- 10 Archbishopric of Vologda . 23 -- 10 Kostroma- 20 -- 10 Archangel .............. 13 -- 10 Tobolsk ..... ....... 21 -- 10 Town of Tobolsk ..... DEGREES .... 13 -- 10 Reval . .-11 -- 10 Vologda '12 -- 10 Some of these proportions it will be observed are extraordinarily high. In Veronesch, for instance, the births are to the deaths nearly as 3 to 1, which is as great a proportion, I believe, as ever was known in America. The average result however of. these proportions has been, in some degree, confirmed by subsequent observations, Mr. Tooke, in his View of the Russian Em-' pire, makes the general proportion of births to burials throughout the whole country, as 225 225 to 100', which is % to 1; and this proportion is taken from the lists of 1793..."