626

AUSTRIA

The rate of illegitimacy varied in 1910 from 37-3 per cent, in Carinthia, 25-5 and 24-2 in Salzbnrg and in Styria, 22 6 in Lower Austiia, to 7 7 in Tyrol, 6*5 in Carniola, and 3-9 in Dalmdtia.

Emigra-TIOn Statistics.

Year

Austrians

Au.strians and Hungarians

To United States

To Canada To Brazil i

10,170 j 1,068 12,3122' 2,711 13,904 ^ 5,372"^ 20,123 1 4,008 9,769 ; — 12,105 1 —

To Argentina

1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911

136,354 177,354

57,734 129,808 148,738

90,134

313,167

386,528 102,795 298,874 273,742 160,751

296,208 352,983 66,074 270,191 258,737 159,057

6,120

4,659

2,551

4,5522

5,236

4,780

1 Sofai

as data are av£

lilable

2 Austrians.

III. Principal TdwNs.

Population according t

the Census

of 1910: —

Austria : —

Vienna .

2,031,498

Linz . . .

67,817

Reicheuberg

36,350

Prague .

223,741

Pola . .

58,081

Salzburg

36,188

Lemberg

206,113

Przemysl

54,078

Drohobyez .

34,665

Trieste .

229,510

Innsbruck

53,194

Tarnopol .

33,871

Krakau .

151,886

Smichow

51,791

Stanislau .

33,328

Graz . .

151,781

Budweis

44,538

Wiener

Briinn .

125,737

Kolomea

42,676

Neustadt

32,874

Czernowitz

87,128

Laibach

41,727

Prossnitz .

31,462

Pilsen .

80,343

Aussig .

39,301

Gorz . . .

30,995

Konigliche

Mahrischo-

Stryj. . .

30,942

Weinberg(

i 77,120

strai

I 36,754

Troppau

30,762

Zizkow .

72,173

Tarn6w .

36,731

Trient . .

30,049

Religion.

The leading principle is religious liberty, and the independence of the Church as regards the State, saving the itghts of the sovereign arising from ecclesiastical dignity.

The Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs vpill grant legal recognition to any religious bodies if their doctrine worship, constitution, and designation contain nothing illegal or immoral (Statute of May 20, 1874).

Tlie Catholic Church has 7 Latin archbishojaies, 1 Greek -Euthenian, and 1 Armenian archbishopric, 23 Latin and 2 Greek-Kuthenian bishoprics. The Greek Oriental or Orthodox Church has 1 archbishopric and 2 bishoprics. Protestants have 6 superintendents of the Augsburg confession, 3 oi the Helvetian, and 1 of the mixed. The following hgures relate to 1910 : —

'riests, secular : —

Members of orders ^ : —

Roman Catholic Church

. 18,7551

Male.

10,903

Greek Catholic Church

. 2,763

Female

26,554

Greek Oriental Church

565

Protestant clergy .

366

Jewish congregations

562

1 Including Armenian Catholics. - Including Greek Catliolics and Oriental Catholic.^