351 England and Wales 6.5 Sweden and 9.6 Norway Scotland 10.1 Denmark 11.0 German 14.8 States Wurtemburg 16.4 Catholic. Italy 5.1 Spain 5.5 France 7.2 Prussia 6.5 (Catholic) Belgium 7.2 Austria 11.1 Ireland 3.0 We have divided Prussia into Protestant and Catholic because statistics are kept according to the religious creed of the people; and we discover that, whilst among the Catholic portion of the empire there is but a percentage of six and a half of illegitimate births, among the Protestants it runs up to ten per cent. And the same remark is applicable to Ireland. The Scotman, whose statements are based on the report of the British Registrar-General, publishes the following statistics: "The proportion of illegitimate births to the total number of births is in Ireland 3.8 per cent.; in England the proportion is 6.4; in Scotland 9.9; in other words, England is nearly twice, and Scotland nearly thrice worse, than Ireland. Something worse has to be added, from which no consolation can be derived. [373]