[761] Fawcett, Manual of Pol. Econ. (4th ed., London, 1874), 143.
[762] Bodio, Del Movimento della populazione in Italia e in altri stati d'Europa (1876), 136, 137; Farr, Vital Statistics, 68-75; and idem, in Report of the Registrar General: quoted by Ogle, "On Marriage Rates," etc., Jour. of the Royal Statistical Society, LIII, 254 ff. Cf. Newsholme, Vital Statistics, 45, 46.
[763] Ogle, op. cit., 256-63. Cauderlier, Les lois de la population, 71-74, 113, 114, has also shown in the case of England that foreign commercial relations must be considered in determining the condition of material well-being.
[764] Oettingen, Die Moralstatistik, 89-94, and authorities there cited; Bertillon, Annales de démographie internationale, I, 24; Cauderlier, op. cit., 61-78, 102 ff., giving statistics for Germany, Belgium, England, and France. Cf. Mayo-Smith, Statistics and Sociology, 100, 101.
[765] Ogle, op. cit., 255; cf. Oettingen, op. cit., 93, 94.
[766] Willcox, "A Study in Vital Statistics," Pol. Sci. Quart., VIII, 76, 77. Cf. idem, "The Marriage Rate in Michigan," Pub. Am. Stat. Assoc., IV, 7; and Crum, "The Marriage Rate in Massachusetts," ibid., 328, 329.
[767] Willcox, loc. cit., 76, 77, 79-82. On the increase of divorce among the southern negroes see idem, The Divorce Problem, 21-23, 29-32.
[768] Bertillon, op. cit., 20-28, 88-102; Wright, Report, 150.
[769] See table in Wright, Report, 145.
[770] See the table in Bottet, La famille, 47 ff. His figures do not agree with those quoted from Wright's Report: According to his table, 3,010 separations were granted in 1883; 3,790 separations and divorces in 1884; 4,640 in 1885; 6,270 in 1886; 7,983 in 1887; and 7,430 in 1888. Compare Keller, "Divorces in France," Procds. of the Am. Stat. Assoc., I, 469 ff., who summarizes Turquan, Résultats statistiques de cinq années de divorce. See also "Divorce: from a French Point of View," North Am. Rev., CLV, 721-30, by Naquet, author of the law of 1884; and the vigorous criticism of Brun, "Divorce Made Easy," ibid., CLVII, 11-17. In 1897, 7,460 divorces were decreed; while in 1900 there were only 7,157; Dike, Rep. of the Nat. League for Protection of the Family (1903), 11.