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The most numerous class of dissenters is the Lutheran
Free Church, numbering 8194 members, next to them the
Methodists, 8187, and Baptists, 4228, while 1374 belonged to various
communities with a methodist-baptist form. In 1891, there were only
1004 Roman Catholics, and in addition to these, a few hundred
Quakers, Jews and Mormons; while 5095 were entered as belonging
to no religious sect at all.

        

BLIND, DEAF & DUMB, ETC.



At the time of the last census, there were in all 2565 blind
persons, of whom 1287 were men, and 1278 women. To this
class are reckoned only those who cannot see to walk about. The
ratio is thus 1.28 in every 1000 inhabitants. Although this
proportion, compared with most other civilised countries, is rather
large — Sweden has 0.83, England and Wales 0.81, Scotland 0.70
— yet it shows considerable improvement since 1845, when the
relative number of blind persons in Norway was 2.07 per 1000
inhabitants. The majority belong to the higher age-classes, the
number only beginning to rise rapidly at about the age of 55.
Of the ages 85—95, there were 40.60 blind persons per 1000
inhabitants, of a greater age, as many as 64.60 per mille.

In 1891, the deaf and dumb numbered 2139 persons, 1176
males and 963 females. The ratio — 1.07 per 1000 inhabitants
— as compared with that of other countries, is a more favourable
one, it is true, than that of the blind, but several European
countries have a much smaller figure to show, e. g. England and Wales
0.49, Scotland 0.53. Sweden has 1.11 and Austria 1.29.

In 1891, there were 1357 persons of the male sex, and 1074
of the female sex, 2431 in all, who were idiots from birth or
early childhood. Of other mentally diseased persons, there were
5318. The total proportion of mentally diseased persons was 3.88
per mille of the population.

        

IV. GROWTH OF THE POPULATION.



It will be seen from the previously recorded (pp. 86 f.) results of
the censuses, that the growth of the Norwegian population, as time
has passed, has been rather unequal. During the period 1801—1815,
the latter half of which was an unhappy and disturbed time for

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