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and six times in another, that the female births have exceeded the males. In Russia the proportion is as high as 108.9 to 100.33*(B) It is a singular fact that with Jews the proportion of male births is decidedly larger than with Christians: thus in Prussia the proportion is as 113, in Breslau as 114, and in Livonia as 120 to 100; the Christian births in these countries being the same as usual, for instance, in Livonia as 104 to 100.34*(C) It is a still more singular fact that in different nations, under different conditions & climates of Naples, Prus Prussia, Westphalia, France and England, the excess of male over female births is less when they are illegitimate than when legitimate.35*(D)

In various parts of Europe, according to Prof. Faye and other authors, "a still greater preponderance of males would be met with, if death struck both sexes in equal proportion in the womb and during birth. But the fact is, that for every 100 still-born females, we have in several countries from 134.6 to 144.9 still-born males." Moreover during the first four or five years of life more male children die than females; "for example in England, in during the first year, 126 boys die for every 100 girls,—a proportion which in France is still more