On criminal abortion in America / by Horatio R. Storer.

  • Storer, Horatio Robinson, 1830-1922.
Date:
1860
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Credit: On criminal abortion in America / by Horatio R. Storer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In Sweden, it has lessened by one-ninth in 61 years. In Prussia, by a third in 132 years. In Denmark, by a quarter in 82 years. In Eng- land, by two-sevenths in a century. In Russia, by an eighth in 28 years. In Spain, by a sixth in 30 years. In Germany, by a thirteenth in IT years. In France, by a third in 11 years.* Or, in other words : In Sweden it has lessened by a fifth ; in Prussia, by a fourth ; in Den- mark and England, by a third; and in Russia, Spain, Germany, and France by a half, in a single century. For the sake of convenience, larger bodies of statistics existing con- cerning it, and from the fact that it represents the extreme of the alleged decrease, we take France for our comparisons. In France at large, according to the official returns as analyzed by Le- goyt, the increase of the population which, from 1801 to 1806, was at the rate of l-28 per cent, annually, from 1806 to 1846 had fallen to about -5 per cent.f The exact ratio of decrease after this point is better shown by the figures themselves. The increase from 1841 to 1846 was 1,200,000; from 1846 to 1851, 380,000; from 1851 to 1856, 256,000. In England, during this latter period, with a population of but one-half the size, the returns of the Registrar-General show a relative increase nine times greater.^ In thirty-seven years, from 181V to 1854, the mean annual increase in France was not more than 155,929, yet in five years, from 1846 to 1851, it had fallen to 76,000 yearly, and from 1851 to 1856, to 51,200, and this with a population ranging from twenty-nine to thirty- four millions. A comparison of these facts, with those obtaining in other European States, will make the above still more evident. We now quote from Rau.§ Hungary, according to Rohrer England, from 1811 to 1821 . from 1821 to 1831 . Prussia, from 1816 to 1827 . from 1820 to 1830 . from 1821 to 1831 . Austria, (Rohrer) 1*30 Scotland, from 1821 to 1831 . . 1-30 Netherlands, from 1821 to 1828 . 1-28 Bate of Increase. Per Cent. 2-40 1-78 1-60 1-54 1-37 1-27 Rate of Increase. Per Cent. Saxony, from 1815 to 1830 . .1*15 Baden (Heunisch,) from 1820 to 1830 1-13 Bavaria, from 1814 to 1828 . . 1-08 Naples, from 1814 to 1824 . . 0-83 France (Mathieu,) from 1817 to 18-27 0-63 France,morerecently,(DeJonnes) 0-55 * Moreau De Jonn£s, Elements de Statistique, 185G, p. 202. | Journal des Economistes, March and May, 1847. % Edinburgh Review, Jan. 1857, p. 312. Med. Times and Gazette, May, 1857, p. 462. I Lehrbuch der Politischen Oekonomie.