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GEKMAN empire: — KINGDOM OF SAXONY

The

growth of the

population is shown in

the following table : —

Year

Pojiulation

2,760,586 3,182,003

3,787,688

Density

per Sq.

Mile

Annual Increase per Cent.

1 Year

1900 1905 1910

Population

Deiisitj^

per Sq.

Mile

Annual Increa.se l>er Cent.

1875

1885 1895

471 543

654 5

1-99 1-41 1-63 ,

4,202,216 4,508,601 4,806,661

726-8 779-1 830-6

2-19 1-46 1-32

The conjugal condition of the population was as follows in 1910

Males

Females

Total

Children ....

784,656

790,512

1,575,168

Adults —

Unmarried

553,954

557,231

1,111,185

Married ....

916,325

914,939

1,831,174

Widowed

54,793

193,603

248,396

Divorced or separated

14,265

26,473

40,738

Saxony contains (1900) 47,009 Lusatian Wends, most of them in the district of Bautzen. In 1900 there were 161,534 foreigners (exclusive of Germans belonging to other German States).

The movement of the population is shown in the following table : —

Year

Marriages Total Births

Stillborn

4,759 4,599 4,374

Illegitimate

Total Deaths

Surplus

of Births

1909 1910 1911

38,541 I 141,480 38,907 134,699 41,236 ; 130,257

20,982 20,115 19,799

75,786 72,251 79,750

60,935 57,849 46,133

The population of the principal towns was, 1910 (including the munici- palities incorporated up to July 1, 1912) : —

Leipzig ,

. 589,850

Zittau .

. 37,084

Reichenbach .

. 29,685

Dresden

. 550,565

Freiberg

. 36,237

Criminitschau

. 28,818

Chemnitz

. 287.807 '■

Meissen

. 3o,8()5

Meerane .

. 25,470

Plauen .

. 121.272

Bautzen

. 32,754

Glauchau

. 25,155

Zwickau

. 73,542

Religion. — Although the royal family is Roman Catholic, the vast majority of the inhabitants of Saxony are Protestants. In 1910, Lutherans, 4,501,510 ; Roman Catholics, 233,872 ; Reformists, 16,531 ; other Christians, 30,548; Jews, 17,587 ; unclassified, 6,613. Of the Lutheran Church, the chief governing body is the * Landes-Consistorium ' or National Consistory at Dresden ; and it also has a representative Synod {Synode) with 35 clerical and 42 lay members (1901).

Instruction. — In 1911, there were 2,303 public Protestant and 56 Roman Catholic common schools, 58 private and chapter schools, and 1,948 advanced common schools (Fortbildungsschulen), or altogether 4,365, with a total attendance of 97] ,915. In addition there were 1 technical high school at Dres-

den (winter term, 1911-12, 1,135 students), 1 mining academy at Fieiberg