Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-08-21

towns, the population, number of births,
rate per 1000 Of population. sex, paren.age /;
number OF malriagas.a nativity; number Of
deaths, sex, nativity and rate per thousand |;
and then recapitulatjon by counties.
Another table gives the births by counties
showing the proportion Of males to females.
ALI the counties but four show an excess of
males over female births. The four counties
are Franklin, Piscataquis, Waldo and
Washington.
The next table shows the births by sex
and months by counties. The smallest
number of births was in January, 10l6, and
the largest number for any one month was
in March with 1915.
Other tables show the number of births in
cities, with rate; percentage of American
and foreign births by counties, by cities
twin births by months and counties, by
sex and parentage; still births by sex and
parentage by counties and by seasons. The
registrar makes the following summaries
and comparisons:
OF the whole number of births Of which
the sex was certified, 1874 were males and
6, ,730 were females. In ia births the sex
was not stated. For each 100 girls born
there were 1867 boys.
This preponderance of the births of boys
over girls conforms with the results of the
registration Of births almost every rywhere.
Thus, the number of boys to each 100 girls
is, in Massachusetts (ls92), los 6; in Yer
mont QS92), 1855; in Rhode Island
IlS90), 1886 England anl Wales l04 3 !;
France, LOG Germany, t0G , I.aly ,I07I;
Sweden, l05, Greece. 1l2.
Birth Rate.
The birth rate for the State was 2l. .2l for
each 900 Of population.
The birth-rate of the different counties
varied widely. 1t was the highest in Aroos-
took, 80. .4G, and the lowest in Waldo, IA 30.
In Ave counties, Aroostook, Cumberland.
Piscataquis, Washington and York, the
birth-rate was above that of the whole
State.
For the purpose Of comparison it may be
stated that the birth-rate of Massachusetts,
was 27.7 in 1892; Rhode Island, 24.7 in
1890; Connecticut, 23.3 in 1890; England
and Wales, 31.2 Qss7.9D Ireland and
France, each 228 (lSS7.9l; Germany,
36.5 (8s7-9D; Norway, 30.5 QSS7-9D f;
Holland 33.4 (lSS7-9D; Italy, 37.6 l8S7-
9l); Hungary, 43 {lSS7-9O.
Of the total births in the State, 6l.94 per
cent. we're of native parents; 1916 per
cent. were of foreign pafentage; 1903 per
cent. were of parents one of which was
foreign; while of 6.57 per cent, the nation
ality was not stated.
Lincoln county had the largest percen-
tage of native-born parents, to wit, $50
per cent.
Waldo was a very close second with
81. 10 per cent. of native parentage, and
only I.27 per cent. in which both parents
were foreign-born.
In Hancock county, in 87.97 per cent. of
the births, the parents were native-born.
In Franklin the percentage was 84.63,
and in Oxford 1920.
Low percentages Of native born parents
are shown in Androscoggin county, where,
| in 80. Is per cent. of the births, the parents
were native-born, and 48 23 per cent. were
| foreign-born, and in Aroostook county with
| 40 per cent, and in York county with 50.66
per cent. of the parents native-born.
Comparing the parentage of the births in
our twenty cities with that of the rest of the
| State, we find that in the cities, 40 "a per
cent. of the births were of American paren-
tage, while. in the rural parts of the State,
the percentage of American-born children
was 71.84.
The largest percentage of foreign-born
parents was in Lewiston, 6S.03, and in
Biddeford, G5.Sl per cent.
The lowest percentage of foreign-born
parents was in Belfast where no birth was
reported, in which both parents were for
eign, in Rockland with 7.84 per cent, and
in Ellsworth, with 10 per cent. of the births
with parents both foreign.
Comparing the statistics of the other New
England states with our .94 per cent. of
American-born parents we find that in New
Hampshire (lS90) 80 OF per cent. of the
births were Of American parentage; in
Massachusetts (1s92) 33.ll per cent; in
Rhode Island (1S9O) 47.02 per cent; in
Connecticut (lS92) 422 per cent. ; in Yer
mont (ls92) 776l per cent. of the parents
were American-born.
In 1892, 1873 twin births occurred.
In 43 instances the twins were both
boys; in Al, both girls; in 45. a
boy and girl. In IS cases the pare ntage
was American; in SO, foreign; and in 10
instances the parentage was mixed. OF the
276 children, 80 were still born.
70 or the 27O ,still-born children, LAG were
1 males, and 96 females. In 28 the sex was
not stated. With the exception of IA still
. births, as to which the nativity of the moth
er was not stated, 159 were of American
mothers, and 81 were of foreign mothers.
/ The largest number of still-births, 32,
| was returned in January, that month in
which the smallest number OF living chill