I. Wherever I
have compared the mortality of the Revolution with that of the ancient
regime I have found the former greater than the latter, even in those
parts of France not devastated by the civil war; and the increase of
this mortality is enormous, especially in years II. and III. - At
Troyes, with 25,282 inhabitants (in 1790), during the five years of
1786, 1787, 1788, 1789 and 1792 (1790 and 1791 are missing), the
average annual mortality is 991 deaths, or 39 per thousand
inhabitants; during the years II, III, IV, this average is 1,166 or 47
per thousand inhabitants; the increase is then 7 deaths per year,
nearly one fifth. (Documents provided by M. Albert Babeau.) - At
Rheims, the average mortality from 1780 to 1789 is 1,350, which, for a
population of 35,597, (1790), gives 41 deaths per annum to every
thousand inhabitants. In the year II., there are 1,836 deaths which
gives for each of the two years 64 deaths to every thousand persons;
the increase is 23 deaths a year, that is to say more than one-half
above the ordinary rate. (Statistics communicated by M. Jadart,
archiviste at Rheims.) - At Limoges, the yearly average of mortality
previous to 1789 was 825 to 20,000 inhabitants, or at the rate of 41
to a thousand.
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