SEOTION XII.
CAUSES OF DEATH.

Table 7, Part II, gives the number of deaths in the
United States, and in each state, state group, and regis-
tration city, during the census year, from each reported
cause. The causes of death in this table are arranged
in alphabetical order and given more fully than in any
other table.

Table 8, Part IL, gives the number of deaths reported
in the United States, the registration area and its subdi-
visions, and in each state and territory, during the census
year, from each specified disease and glass of diseases,
by sex and age.

Table 9, Part II, gives the same data for the United
States, by color and race,

Table 10, Part II, gives the same data for the regis-
tration area, by color and race.

Table 11, Part II, gives the same data for white per-
sons in the registration area, by birthplaces of mothers.

Table 12, Part 11, gives the number of deaths reported
in each registration state during the census year, from
each specified disease and class of diseases, by birth-
places of mothers.

Table 13, Part I, gives the number of deaths in the
United States, the registration area and its subdivisions,
and in each grand group, during the census year, at cer~
tain ages, and from certain specified diseases and classes
of diseases, by months.

Of 1,039,094 deaths reported as occurring in the
United States during the census year, 40,539; or 39 per
1,000, were reported as due to unknown cause. In 1890
the proportion reported as due to unknown cause was

40.7 per 1,000, and in 1880 it was 49 per 1,000. In the ||

registration area the proportion reported as due to
unknown cause in the census year 1900 was 9.5 per
1,000, being slightly less than the proportion in 1890
(9.7 per 1,000).

These figures show some slight improvement in the
accuracy with which the cause of death is reported, but
leave much to be desived in this respect. In addition
to the deaths necessarily classified under ‘cause un-
known,” a large number of cases in which the cause of
death is reported as inanition, debility, atrophy, dropsy,

heart failure, and other indefinite or symptomatic terms ~

ean not be properly classified except as unknown or
ill defined. This is true even in the registration area
where the record of deaths is fairly complete in number.
The nomenclature and classification of diseases used
in the tables are the same as those employed in the
Tenth and Eleventh censuses, but the list of titles for
which detailed information is presented has been in-
ereased by the addition of a number of diseases.

The following table shows the principal reported
causes of deaths in the United States in the census
years 1900 and 1890, in the order of their frequency,
with the proportion from each cause per 100,000 from
all causes:

Deatns ‘rom Certain Causes, ann Prorortion pros Each
Cause, Per 100,000 ros Arn Causes.

1900 1890
CAUSES OF DEATH,
Number. | PFOPOT-|f Number, [PEROT
Consumption?.. ‘111, 059 } 10,688 }} 102,199 | 12,146.
Pneumonsa. 105,971 | 10,198 || 76,490 | 9,001
Heart diseasc?. e9f315 | 6,671 || 44,959 | 5,343.
Diarrhea) diseases:. 46,907 | 4,514 47,201 5,610
Unknown cause. 3,901 |[ 94,286 | 4,075
Disenses of the kidney’. 3,634 || 19,457 | 2,912
‘Typhoid fever. 85,379} 8,405 27,058} 8, 216.
Cancer 29,475 | 2,887 |f 18,686 | 2,203.
Old age. 1,222 | 2,812, 16,591 | 4,972
Apoplex: "26,901 | 2,680 ‘14,999 | 1,783.
Inflammation of the and meningitis.| 25,604] 2,470 17,77 | 2,118
Cholera infantum 25,576 | 2,462 27,510 3,269"
Paralysis 28,865 | 2,297 16,570 | 1,96%
Bronchitis. 20,298 | 1,946 || 21,422] 2,546
Denility and atrophy. 7,282 | 1,608 |] 25,636 | 8,035.
Influenza... 16,645 | 1,602 12,957 1,540:
Diphtheria 16,475 | 1,586} 97,815 | 3,908
Convulsions: 16,505 | 1,492 16,598} 1,978
Malaria! fever .. ‘M4, 874) 1,481 18, 594 2,210
Premature birth.. ‘14,720 | 1,417 7, 686 908.
“Diseases of the stomach® 1,298 8,080 960
‘Measles.. 1,238 0,256 | 1,100-
Croup 12,484 | 1,201 18, 802 1,087
Diseases of the liver? . 12,249 | 1,179 9,400 1,124
Diseases of the brain. uu409 | 1201 ]} 19,902 | 1,408
Tnanition. 11,382 | 1,095 6,995, 83L
Dropsy -. 11,264} 1,084 10,070 1,197
Whooping cough 9,958 958 8,482 | 1,002
Peritonitis 7s. | 722 | 4,005 | 98
Railroad avcidents .. 6,930 667 6,756 684
Sopticemia .. 6,776 652 8,748 445,
Burnsand scalds 6,72| 662 |} 8,850 458
Scarlet fever. 6,883, 609 5,969 709
Suicide . 5,408] s20 |} 9,982 [07
Drowning 5,387 ‘518 5,104 Gor
Appendicitis 61m { 492 |}. .
5,067 | 488 |}. 4,508} 586.
4,672 450° 2,407 286
4,302 ald 4,838 516
4,v7s} 402} 3,388 803.
Gunshot wounds 4,060 80 2,552 803

Mneluding general tuberculosis
2Including pericarditis,
2 Including cholera morbus, colitis, dinrrhea, dysentery, an¢ enteritis,
4Including Bright’s disease.

Simoluding general) ‘paralysis of the insane,

SIncluding gastr

TIncluding faundies, and inflammation and abscess ofthe liver.

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