From January 1, 1792, to September 22, 1794, there are
3,449 deaths, that is to say, a yearly average of 63 deaths to one
thousand inhabitants, that is to say, 22 extra per annum, while the
mortality bears mostly on the poor, for out of 2,073 persons who die
between January 17, 1793, and September 22, 1794, over one-half,
1,100, die in the hospital. - (Louis Guibert, "Ancien registre des
paroisses de Limoges," pp. 40, 45, 47.) - At Poitiers, in year IX.,
the population is 18,223, and the average mortality of the past ten
years was 724 per annum. But in year II., there are 2,094 deaths, and
in year III. 2,032, largely in the hospitals. Thus, even on
comparing the average mortality of the ten years of the Revolution
with the mortality of years II. and III., the average rate has almost
trebled. - The same applies to Loudens, where the average death-rate
being 151, in year II., it rises to 425. Instead of the triple for
Chatellerault, it is double, where, the average rate being 262, the
death-rate rises to 482, principally in the military hospitals.
("Statistique de la Vienne," by Cochon, pr?fet, year IX.) - At Niort,
population 11,000, the annual mortality of the ten years preceding
1793 averaged 423, or 38 per thousand.
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