AREA AND POPULATION
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The German languago is spoken by the majority of inlialjitants in fifteen cantons, the French in live, the Italian in one (Tessin), and the Ronmansch in one (tlie Grisons). In 1888 2,083,097 spoke German, 634,613 French, 155,130 Italian, and 38,357 Ronmansch. The number of foreigners resident in Switzerland at the date of the census was 229,650, of whom 112,342 were German, 53,627 French, 41,881 Italian, 13,737 Austrian, 2,577 British. 1,354 Russian.
The chief occupations of the population in 1888, with the numbers em- ployed, their families and domestic servants, were: —
Occupation
Men
Women
Men and Women
Members of Family
Domestic Servants
16,357
Total
Agi-iculture .
388,467
92,566
481,033
609,040
1,106,430
Jliniug, sylviculture, Ac.
10,682
28
10,710
16,482
243
27,435
Food manufacture .
37,363
6,752
44,115
52,531
4,703
101,349
Dress, dkc.
40,666
67,534
108,200
76,456
2,041
186,697
Building and furniture .
105,747
1,620
107,367
162.353
3,763
273,483
Textiles ....
61,087
106,435
167,522
99,723
2.901
270,146
Machinery
66,897
15,075
81,972
113,256
3,274
198,502
Chemicals, bookbinding,
(fee
15,873
2,743
18,616
24,449
1,347
44,412
Tra<le ....
54,037
38,256
92,293
103,484
17,730
213,507
Transport
45,689
2,307
47,996
77,825
2,175
127,996
Public officials, sciences,
(fee
35,817
14,836
50,653
64,084
12,689
127,426
Not determinable .
6,608
8,261
14,869
12,416
1,254
28,539
No relation to occupation Total .
12,679
36.022
48,701
151,304
11,827
211,832
881,612
392,435
1,274,047
1,563,403
80,304
2,917,754
II. Movement of Population.
The following table gives the total number of births, deaths, and marriages, with the surplus of births over deaths, in live years: —
Years
Total Births
Stillbirths
jrarriages
Deaths
Surplus of Births over Deaths
1893 1894 1895 1896 1897
88,100 87,317 88,184 91,673 93,369
3,203 3,175 3,211 3,246 3,291
21,884 22,188 22,682 23,784 24,954
61,059 61,885 59,747 56,096 59,690
23,838 22,257 25,226 32,331 33,679
In 1897 the illegitimate births numbered 4,424, or 4 7 per cent. The number of divorces was 1,012, or 2"13 per thousand of existing marriages.
The number of cmigi-ants in five years was: — 1894, 3,849; 1895, 4,268; 1896, 3,330; 1897, 2,508; 1898, 2,288. In 1896 the most numerous class of emigrants was that of those employed in agricultuie, 977; domestic servants, 284; those in trade, 263; innkeepers^ 178; tailors, 129. Of the whole number, 2,007 were males, of whom 415 were married, and 1,323 were females, of whom 369 were married. The cantons which supplied the largest contingents of emigi-ants in 1897, were Bern, 470; Zurich
