Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1881-04-01
Vermont Registration Reports.

Our State Registration Reports are de
prived of much Of their value by the uncon-
scionaby long time that intervenes between
the collection of the statistics and their publ
cation-the figures of any one year not
appearing until the third or fourth year fol
lowing. The reports for the years 1877 and
1878 have just been issued by the Secretary
of State is a single volume, and the statistics
have of course lost considerably in interest
Still the figures arrayed are of Il good deal OF
value and brief glance al them will repay
the time Taking the first of the three
grand epochs of life, we find that there were
in 1877, 1875 births and in 1878, 6sIO-
there being in each year almost exactly 2OO
more of the males than OF females lhe
average of births in 1878 was one 10 IA peo-
pie. Grand Isle county was the most prolihc,
showing proportion of TO 35-s and next
comes franklin, 3S.2, Rutland, Al and
Chittenden, 42.s: while Essex comes last,
showing proportion Of only to 66.l
There were l0j plural and 81 illesitImate
births.
The number of marriages was a6l5 IN le''
and 2760 IN 1S1S-the proportion IN The lat
ter wear being bride or groom to every ~
of the proportion. OF the total number
2Os3 we're unions of those married for the
first time; l04 bachelors disregarded the
elder Weller's advice and married widows;
334 widowers married maids and 23y were
subse quent marriages. Under this head the
statistics of divorce naturally fall. In 1871
there were lis divorces and IN 1873 there
were 1877 ratio TO marriages of to 10
in the former year and to IA in the latter.
of the divorces in 1878, the wife was the
libellant in las cases and the husband IN ~
Seventy divorces were granted ior 1ntolef-
able severity" 80 for desertion 43 for
adultery and l3 for refusal 10 support.
There were 1892 deaths in 1877 and
1896 in 1878, the decedents being almost ex-
actly equally divided rs TO sex, in both
wears In 1873 the proportion OF deaths was
one to every 6,5 of inhabitants. The aver
age are of the dcccdents was i2-Ol. In the
civil sub b-divisions of the State, i.amoIlle
county makes the best showing, the average
are of its decedents being 5l.52 years, and
Franklin the worst, its average being only
1904 Chiltenden county shows an average
of "a 3y of the total number ot deaths
l21s OF nearly one fourth. were OF children
between the ages of one and five years "A
shocking disproportinn, due, the compiler "i
the report thinks, to inherited weakness and
disease, the want of proper nourishment, ana
violation Of the laws ot hygiene oi the
causes of death consumption leads with 'Si
victims. Although dreaded beyond most
others and made the subject OF larger medi-
cal inquiry than any other disease, 1t Is e'i-
IDENTIFY carrying oil its victims n surely and
in as great numbers as ever. II IS a curious
and interesting fact that that part of the State
bordering on Lake Champlain l. much ircer
from this terrible and fatal disease than the
rest of the commonwealth By lar The
greater number OF casrs are reported from
the valley of the Connecticut river. Women,
too ,ppear to be more subject than men to
the disease, the proportion being 5Ol males
to i27 females. Diphtheria was the next
most fatal disease, claiming iO3 victims, AMI
| old age follows with 3i9 an"table il'iSira
ton of the general hcalthiness oi our Stale.
/ No less than elccen deaths OF centenarIans
were reported, the oldest being aged one
I h,,nJroJ anil fnur \,ars and twenty seven
days.