Dr. G. Mayr has proved that during the period named there was a close connection between the movement of the price of grain and the figures for vagrancy. (See p. 42 of this work.)[348]
Flanders, 1839–1848.
Ducpetiaux had given proofs of the same correlation. (See pp. 33–37.)
France, 1840–1886.
Lafargue has proved that vagrancy and mendicity follow in general the curve for bankruptcies. (See p. 235.)[349]
Hesse, 1895–1900.[350]
| Years. | Number of those Convicted of Vagrancy and Mendicity. | |
| Absolute Figures. | To 100,000 of the Population. | |
| 1895 | 2,583 | 21.96 |
| 1896 | 2,244 | 21.49 |
| 1897 | 1,968 | 18.49 |
| 1898 | 1,658 | 15.60 |
| 1899 | 1,267 | 11.82 |
| 1900 | 1,442 | 12.95 |
In this period the economic depression in Germany, dating from about 1890, began to decrease.
Netherlands, 1860–1891.
Since there are no statistical investigations of the course of vagrancy and mendicity I have composed the following chart from the official data. [[551]]