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Show GERMAN LOSS i INPWTli Berlin Correspondent Reviews a Effects of War on Empire's 1 Vital Statistics. I EXCESS OF WOMEN! Marriage Chances Will Be 1 Greatly Reduced Will Be Large Number of Invalid m Men. I AMSTERDAM, Feb. 7. (Corre- B spondence of The Associated Press.) IS "From the beginning of the war up m to the end of 1916 thcro were over a M million more deaths in Germany than m is normally the case," says the Berlin jg correspondent of tho Mnasbodo in a M statement on thq effects of the war on tho vital and population statistics g of the German empire. S "For the first thro years," con- S tinuos the writer, "tho entire loss by M mortality is said to havo been 3.700,"- ffi 000. Thus instead of the normal in- m crease of 2,400,000 there was on M August 1, 1917, a decrease of 600,000 55 to which another 700,000 was added as IS a result of the decline in birth fig- gj ures that still continues Tho abso- lute decrease in tho population after three years therefore would havo been h 2 per cent .of the number at the be- W ginning of the war. ' SB "Other phenomena are to -bo ex- IP -pected for tho near future. Instead of g 14,000,000 tho men between the .ages ig of 17 and 45 will only number 12,- i 700,000; and instead of 800,000 as now, m the excess of women over men will ffi bo 2,100,000. It is not yet known how M tho war losses win be spread over the S various ages but It looks as if there Sj will be 1100 women to every 1000 men K of marriageable age. For these rea- M sons, and in view of the fact that fH there will be a large number of in.- m valids among tho men, the marriage m chances must be termed greatly re- 1 duced, a fact which will in its turn M produce further shifting on the labor B market, that on their part will again m react on the population movement. si Infants Not Affected. jpS "The war is not regarded 5t any m rate by experts as harmful for in- H fants. Natural feeding is far more 8 general than formerly in all classes of H tho population, and the results are fg good, as the food authorities apportion am to tho mother the food for the child, m as, for example, one litre of milk per H day. Infants have a right to 'one litre ij of milk daily, 50 gramms of sugar and li 200 gramms of flour a week and one m pound of oatmeal a month, and can do m well on that. "The food question becomes more H difficult in the child's second year, as Hi vegetables and fruits are scarce, at (Si any rate in the large towns, so that in the potato has to take the place of H these. 'i ue counsel is now heard more 1 frequently to restrict gymnastic exer- iH cises and, following tho example of fil the marmots to substitute the food pf that is lacking by sleep, and to see ffi that the children get long nights of H |