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STETTIN. 
In 1X71, when Stettin was still encircled by ramparts and moats such as 
surround Königsberg and the greater part of Dantzig at the present day, its 
population numbered only 76,000. Two years later the fortifications were 
dismantled. Their sites are now occupied by wide streets and promenades, and 
the population has increased to 227,000 (end of 1906), or to about three times 
the figure at which it stood in 1871. A large part of this increase has, however, 
followed from the incorporation within the municipal area, on April 1st, 1900, 
of the three outlying communes of Grabow, Bredow, and Nemitz, with a 
combined population of about 48,000. 
The population at each census since 1871, together with the rate of inter 
censal increase, is shown in the following Table :— 
Year. 
Population. 
Increase. 
Increase per cent. 
1871 
1875 
1880 
1885 
1890 
1895 
1900 
1905 
76,280 
80,972 
91,756 
99,543 
116,228 
140,724 
210,702* 
224,119 
4,692 
10,784 
7,787 
16,685 
24,496 
69,978 
13,417 
62 
133 
8-5 
16-8 
21-1 
49-7 
6'4 
* Including Grabow, Bredow and Nemitz. 
During the 25 years 1881-1905 the mean annual birth-rate has been 
34*3 per 1,000 inhabitants, as against a death-rate of 25 2, so that the 
mean annual rate of natural increase during that period has been 9T per 1,000. 
Both the birth-rate and the death-rate have on the whole been declining 
since 1891, the latter more rapidly than the former, with the result that 
the natural growth of the population has been proceeding at an accelerated 
pace. In the five years 1891-5 it amounted to 9 2 per 1,000 inhabitants per 
annum ; in the succeeding five years it was 10'o, and in 1901-5 11*8 per 1,000 
inhabitants. This acceleration in the rate of natural increase has been in some 
part due to a decline since 1901 in the mortality of infants under a year old. 
In that year there were in Stettin 356 deaths of such infants to every 1,000 
births, a rate of infant mortality higher than that recorded during the last 
15 years in any other large German town except Chemnitz. 
The following statement shows the birth-rate, death-rate, and infant 
mortality rate of Stettin for each of the last five years for which the figures are 
available : — 
Y ear. 
Birth rate per 1,000 
of population. 
Death rate per 1,000 
of population. 
Infant mortality rate 
per 1,000 births. 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 
1905 
37 9 
35-0 
32-3 
34-0 
32-0 
25-8 
214 
21-6 
23-3 
22-4 
356 
241 
287 
265 
263 
While the area comprised within the municipal boundary of Stettin is 
large (about 16,500 acres), the space actually built upon is only 1,511 acres, or 
less than one-tenth of the whole, including private yards and gardens ; and