The Portland daily press., 1894-08-22

in the State during the year 1892. This
gives marriage rate of 8. Sc to every l.
| 600 OF population, or one marriage among
every lis persons.
The marriage rate was higher in An
droscoggin county than elsewhere in the
State, for that county being 9.7s per l.
| 600. and 7.24 for York county was the
| lowest marriage rate.
AS to the ages of the persons contract
| ing marriages, the largest number both
| OF 9rooms and brides were between 20
and 20 years of age. While still under
| Is years of age "a brides were married; in
| the age period 1920 years, there were
| 1874 grooms and /, 597 brides
In S46 marriages the bride was older
| than the groom; sos widowers and $40
| l6S women were REMARKED after having
been divorced from former marriage.
| Seventeen men and 10 women contract
ed marriage the fourth time.
| The three Oldest grooms were all 81
years of age. The bride in one OF these
marriages was 60, in another 46, and in
the third only 50 years old.
! The Oldest bride was So years old, and
the man who became her husband was
36 years old.
Five hundred and fifty-two divorces
were decreed in the year 1892, and this
is at the rate of not quite one divorce to
| every ten marriages solemnlzed Within
the same year. The wife was the libel
liant in 40 divorces, and the husband in
| 142. In the divorces granted for adj
| ultery the husband was the libellant AZ
times and the wife % times.
| Two divorces were granted before the
married life had iaste1 6 months; be-
| oft 70
| years marriage; IT'S after from to 10
years: after 10 to 20 years; So after 30
] to 80 years; and 90 after more than 80,
| years married life.
DEATH RATE.
In the year 1892 1911 deaths were
registered in the State, which is equiva-
lent to death rate of 1887 for every
1000 of population as returned by the
census of 1880. Based on the estimated
population for 1899 the death rate
would be IS 3d.
The death rate of Aroostook county
was lower than that of any other county,
being only II; 4s. while the older eoun-
ties, Cum berand, kennebec and York,
show death rates of 90, 2s, 90, SO and
%. 20 respectively.
The death rate in the cities was 20. 46
as compared with that of the rest of the
State with the cities subtracted. which
death rate was II. 46.
For the year 1892 the death rate of
Maine was 1887; of New Hampshire
20.86, of Massachusetts 20. 81; of Connec-
ticut 10. The average death rate IN
| some European countries for the five
years. 1sS7-91, was as follows: England
and Wales 1910: Ireland, 1870; France
21.9; German Empire 23.9; Holland.
2o.3;. Denmark 1e1; Norway. III; and
for the years 1SS7-90, Sweden 1853; Hun
gary 80. The largest numb Der of deaths
occurred in January, 1887, and February
and March followed with diminishing
mortality, 1892 and 1895 deaths respec-
lively. The smallest number of deaths
in any one month was $50 in November.
This excessive fatality in the early
part of the year represents apparently,
not normal or customary late winter
and early spring death rate in the State,
but was due mostly, and perhaps
wholly, to the widespread prevalence of
epidemic influenza, and its accompani-
ments and sequels.
it appears not far from the truth to
affirm that the epidemic of influenza Oa
grippe) cost this State 1000 lives in 1852,
and raised the recorded death rate cor
respondingly. N
Companions are made showing like
mortality from the same cause in GER
tain Obner StaGeSl
There was preponderance of female
deaths save for the age period 1880
years. -
From the following table it will be
seen that the proportionate mum per of
deaths of aged people is large 10 il
lustrate this the following arrangement
will serve to compare Maine with Mas
sachusetts as regards the percentage of
deaths at several age periods
Age Groups, Maine, 1892. Mass. 1892
Under one year of
age: .-.........: 14.o per cent. 21.s per cent
From 1-5 yrs OF
age, --.. o.0 " " 3.3 8 :"
From 20-50 yrs. of
age, .....-.... ZU.0 Z4.b 8"
From 5000 yrs of
age. 4l.4 Z7,O 50
This comparison brings out sharply
the relatively large mum Der of deaths of
aged persons in Maine. Does this indi-
cate superior degree of heathfulness
in the State? An explanation of ouly
part of the diff erence is to be sought in
that direction. Is it attributable to the
influence of the epidemic of influenza
and it's accompanying diseases of the
respiratory organs which proved so fatal
to the aged part of the population? The
death rate from influenza was consider
ably greater in Maine than in Massa-
chusetts, but the combined death rate
from Influenza, pneumonia, and bronchi-