Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-11-01
VITAL STATISTICS.
Report Of Registrar Young
for Young 1895.
A Large Increase Of Births Di-
vorces Exceedingly Large.
The Death Rate Was Smaller Than Usual
tuberculosis Was One Of Nest Fatal Diseases.

Maine Board of Health and registrar
of vital statistics, has just issued the
fourth annual report of births, .mar-
riages, divorces and deaths:
This, the fourth report of the depart
ment Of vital statistics, gives the re-
suits of the registration of the births,
marriages. divorces, and deaths in
Maine during the year 1895. Many of
the figures herein presented are very
of the three preceding years, and with
those. exhibited by the reports of our
other states in which a trustworthy
system exists for the registration of
vital statistics. In the first registra-
ton year, 1892, an exceptionally high
death-rate was due to the epidemic
prevalence of influenza. Since then the
total number of deaths in the State
and the death-rate have steadily dim
finished. In 1892, the number of deaths
was II, 147;. in 1898. 11,1S4; in 1894. II, o12,
and 1895. 10,464. The death rate for the
four years has been, respectively, 1887,
1854, 1886 and 1888 There were, there
fore, in 1895, 54S fewer deaths than in
1894 $40 fewer than in 1893, and 1852
fewer than in 1892. 1t is to be hoped
that the death-rate of 1895 indicates
more nearly than that of any preced-
ing year the normal death-rate of the
State, or the mean death-rate in the
absence of unusual epidemic influences.
The number of births registered in
1895 is larger than that in any previous
preceding year by 1922, while the birth
rate was 2233 as compared with 21.O9 in
1894. In the three years 1924, the
greatest variationin any one year from
the average number for those three
years was only Ill. The considerable
increase in the number of births is I'M
doubtedly due in some measure to the
greater care on the part of town clerks
to make their records as complete as
possible. i
The marriage-rate of the State has
varied but little in the four years
1925. 1t has been, respectively, $50, !
S.7e. SAC, and s.67.
The number of divorces decreed in
1895 was 6S1, which, in proportion to the
number of marriages solemnized DUR.
ing the same year. is larger than in any
of the other New England states.
The population of the State of Maine
in 1890, was, as given by the eleventh
census, 661, OS6. In 1880, the population
of the State was 64S,936 There was,
therefore, gain of Il, $50 in the decade
tions.
In this report the birth-rates, mar
riage- rates, and death-rates from all
causes, are stated as so many among
each 1000 of the population as shown
by the census of 1890.
Death-rates from individual causes.
or from groups of diseases are ex-
pressed as per 10000.
The following is a general summary
Of the births, marriages, and deaths in
1896:
Sex-Males, 1902; females, 7144; not stat
ed 16 Total, 14.762.
Parentage 5000; foreign, 297
one parent foreign 2261; not stated, 215
Total, 14,762
Whole number of births, 14,7e2.
Birth-rate per 1000, 2233.
MARRIAGES.
Groom and bride both American, 4065.
Groom and bride both foreign, GA.
Groom American, bride foreign, 40S.
Groom foreign, bride American, AIS.
Not stated ga.
Whole number of marriages, 5729
Marriage rate per 1000 $3.50.
..'. DEATHS
Sex-Males, 5226; females, 522S; not stat
ed. 10. Total, 10,464.
Parentage.-Amercan, 1896; foreign, 11Ss;
not, stated, 2S1. Total, 1O,464.
Whole number of deaths, 10, 1884,
Death rate per 1000 of population, 1855.
AS the total number of births regis
tered in Maine in the year 1895 was A.
762 and the numberof deaths was 10,464,
the natural increase Of births over
deaths was 1928.
The following table shows the num-
Der of births and deaths in each coun-
ty, and the preponderance of births
over deaths. In none Of the preceding
registration years has the number OF
births been greater than the number Of
deaths in every county in the State.
Births by sex and months by coun-
ties:
GRAND TOTAL OF BIRTHS BY COUN-
TIES. as.
Androscoggin-Males, 63S; females, COG.
Total, 1914.
Aroostook-Males. 1000; females, GAG. To-
tai, 1916.
Cumberland-Males. 1893; females, 1852;
not stated, /. Total. 2146.
Franklin-Males, 1871; females, III. To-
tai, 1852.
Hancock-Males Ss1; females. S91. To-
tai. 49,
Kennebec-Males. SIC: females. 49S; not
stated. 1. Total, 1915.
Knox-Males, 81; females, SO4; not stat
ed, l. Total, 622
Lincoln-Males, 1Se; females, 1877. Total.
376.
Oxford-Males, 3OO females, 2sS. Total.
$685.
Penobscot-Males, 1872; females, 6S1; not
stated, 6. Total, 1919.
Observation-Disclosures, 1865; females, l67. To-