. Denmark; its medical organization, hygiene and demography . comparing the numerical strength of the different periodsof age with those of the whole population. By investigating thereturns mentioned above for the period 1879—1888 it is found, thatthe mortality of adult deaf-mutes is somewhat greater than that ofthe working classes of the rural districts—classes, to which the deaf-mutes principally belong, deaf-mutism in Denmark prevaling espe-cially amongst the lower classes, and nearly three fourths of the popu-lation of Denmark being rural (see list of literature no. 3). Distribution in the
. Denmark; its medical organization, hygiene and demography . comparing the numerical strength of the different periodsof age with those of the whole population. By investigating thereturns mentioned above for the period 1879—1888 it is found, thatthe mortality of adult deaf-mutes is somewhat greater than that ofthe working classes of the rural districts—classes, to which the deaf-mutes principally belong, deaf-mutism in Denmark prevaling espe-cially amongst the lower classes, and nearly three fourths of the popu-lation of Denmark being rural (see list of literature no. 3). Distribution in the Different Parts of the Country. Dividingthe country into three parts, viz., the Metropolis, the other towns,and the rural districts, it was found in 1886 that the rate of deaf-mutes was respectively 45*0, 534, and 67*5 per 100,000 inhabitantsof each part. It is, however, only apparently, that the one part DISTRIBUTION OF DEAF-MUTES IN THE RURAL DISTRICTS OF THE DANISH COUNTIES. T?i4 Jiqufe*- indicate num2>ei* cf deaf-mutr^ w7t<zbUu/ils. 2h*arm-ly(Japt Emit f^Lti-h^r erf Cape-nhtzqe) DEAF-MUTES. 395 of the country is more heavily burdened with deaf-mutism than theother, as these figures are the result of a comparison of the numberof deaf mutes bom in the different parts with the number of inhab-itants living there. As now the population of the towns of Denmark,and especially that of the larger ones and of the capital—as is alsothe case in most other countries—has increased to a great extentthrough immigration from the rural districts, (the larger townsexerting now-a-days a great attraction upon the rural population), therate of deaf-mutes must necessarily appear lower in the larger towns,and especially in the Metropolis, (which exerts the greatest attraction),and higher in the rural districts, when calculated as stated the other hand, a calculation based upon a comparison of thenumber of deaf-mutes living in the different parts of the countrywi
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