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7.22 per cent of the total number of births were illegitimate, in
Sweden, 10.52 per cent, and in Denmark, 9.45), yet the average
proportion for Europe is much more favourable, although both
Germany and France, as well as a few other countries,, [[** sic]] have
a higher illegitimate percentage than Norway. In Russia, the
number of illegitimate births is strikingly small — 2.78 per cent
—, which may be chiefly ascribed to the very early marriages in
that country. In Norway, too, the number of illegitimate births
was considerably lower in former times than it has been during
the last 50 years, amounting, during the last third of the previous
century, to only about 5 per cent of the entire number of births.
The number of births at which more than one child came
into the world, seems to be about the same in Norway as in
Europe generally.
With regard to the frequency of births at the various seasons
of the year, it may be remarked that the largest number of
children are born in September, and the fewest in November, the
number for the years 1866—1885 being 176 and 141 respectively
in the 24 hours, for births in general. Of the four quarters of
the year, the spring quarter, March to May, showed the greatest
average number of births in the 24 hours, viz. 163, while from
June to August, there were 151. The annual average for the
above period of 20 years was 158.50 per 24 hours. This greater
frequency of births in the spring quarter, which is also found in
several other countries, has both social and physical causes.
The number of births is not dependent only on the number
of married, or rather adult women, but also on their fecundity.
This is comparatively good as far as Norway is concerned.
According to a calculation for the years 1871—1880, there is the
following annual number of births per 100 women of ages from
15 to 50: in Norway 12.90, Sweden 12.50, Denmark 13.20, Galicia
17.50, and France 10.60.
If, on the one hand, the number of married women in
childbed be compared with the total number of married women of
ages from 15 to 50, and on the other, the number of unmarried
women in child-bed, with the total number of unmarried women
of the same ages, the comparison will be found to be favourable to
Norway, the percentage of fecundity in married women being
relatively high, while it is not so in a corresponding degree in the
case of the unmarried women.
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