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MÜLHAUSEN IN ALSACE. 
Mülhausen is the second town in size in the Reichsland, as the provinces 
of Alsace and Lorraine, annexed by Germany in 1871, are called, and is an 
important centre of the cotton industry. It is emphatically a town of working 
people. The handicrafts which elsewhere occupy great prominence are here 
comparatively insignificant ; there is no large leisured class ; industry and, in a 
secondary degree, the wholesale handling of merchandise are the distinguishing 
marks of its economic life. The population in 1905 was 94,498. 
Owing partly to its geographical position, and also to its dependence upon a 
single industry, Mülhausen’s growth has for a long time been very equable. 
The movement of population since 1875 has been as follows :— 
Year of Census. 
Population. 
1875 
1880 
1885 
1890 
1895 
1900 
1905 
58,463 
63,629 
69,759 
76,892 
82,986 
89,118 
94,498 
Increase. 
5,166 
6,130 
7,133 
6,094 
6,132 
5,380 
Increase per cent. 
8-8 
9-6 
10-2 
7-9 
74 
6-0 
The birth-rate and the death-rate have declined equally during the past 
twenty years. The average birth-rate during the period 1881-1885 was 
36 per l’OOO of the population, and during the years 1901-1905 it was 28-5, 
showing a fall of 7 5 per 1,000 ; while the average death-rates at the same 
periods were 27 3 and 19*8 respectively, showing a decline of 7'5 per 1,000. 
These rates and the infant mortality rate have been as follows during the 
five years 1901-1905 :— 
Year. 
1901 
1902 
1903 
1904 
1905 
Birth-rate per 1,000 
of Population. 
31-8 
28-7 
27- 6 
28- 4 
26-0 
Death-rate per 1,000 
of Population. 
19-7 
191 
201 
19- 9 
20- 4 
Infantile Mortality 
per 1,000 Births. 
181 
212 
211 
205 
200 
The deaths from tuberculosis in 1905 were equal to 2'74 per 1,000 of the 
population, comparing with 2'28 in 1904 and 2’0< in 1903. 
The general aspect of the streets of Mülhausen is unpretentious and in no 
way suggestive of a large town or in keeping with its industrial impoitance. 
There are spacious private gardens, still withheld from the builder’s hand, yet 
little public planting has been done The villa residences in which the well -to- 
do families live form a colony apart, lying beyond the railway and the canal to 
the South, R quarter from which factories are excluded. 01 the factories some