The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-02
STATE STATISTICS.
Fourth Annual Report Of the State
Board Of Health.
SOME INTERESTING FACTS WHICH
IT EMBODIES.

Maine Stands at the Head of tho New En-
land List as to tho Number of D,vor,..
anGranted-In 1895, the Oldest Groom,
was "a and the Oldest Bride. 1e-
Twenty Brides Were Less Than IL
The Death Rate Low.
DR.. A. G. Young, secretary of the
Maine Board OF Health and registrar of
vital statistics. has just issued the fourth
annual report Of births, marriages, d.
vorces and. deaths. 1t is for the year 1895.
The report says:
This, the fourth report of the depart
ment Of vital statistics. gives the results
of the registration of the births, mar
riages, divorces, and deaths In Maine
during the year 1895. MANI. of the figures
herein presented are very satisfactory
when compared with those of the three
preceding years, and with those exhibit
ed by the reports of our other states in
which trustworthy system exists for
the registration Of vital statistics. In the
first registration year, 1892, an excep-
tionally 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
diminished. In 1892, tho number of
deaths was IL, 147; in 1898, 11,134; in 1894
II, 0l2, and 1895, 10, 464. The death rate
for the four years has been, respectively,
1887, 1884, 1866 and 1888. There were,
therefore. in 1895, 54s fewer deaths than
in 1894, $40 fewer than In 1898, and 1888
fewer than in 1899. It is to be hoped that
thessdeatA-rate Of 1896 indicates more near
ly than that of any preceding year the
normal death-rate of the state, or the
mean death-rate in the absence Of unus-
uaI epidemic influences.
The number of births registered in 1895
is larger than that In any previous year,
it was larger than that OF the preceding
year by 1922, while the birth-rate was
az. S3 a. compared with 81 90 in 1894. In
the three years 1s92-94, the greatest varia-
ton in any one year from the average
number for those three years was only
Ill. The considerable increase in the
number Of births Is undoubtedly due in
some measure to the greater care on the
part Of town clerks to make their records
as complete as possible.
The marriaRe-rate of the state has
varied but little in the four years 1s92-95
1t has been, respectively, $3.50, $40, S.46
and 8.67.
The number Of divorces deoreed in 1895
| in, IN "a
Der of marriages solemnized during the
Same year, is larger than In any of the
other New England states.
The population Of the State of Maine
in 1890, was, az given by the eleventh
census. 1861 ,Os6. In 1850, the population
fore, gain of 10, 100 in the decade be-
tween the last two census enumerations
In this report the birth-rates, marriage
rates, and DEATH rates from all causes, are
stated as 30 many among each 1000 of
the population as shown by the census of
1880.
Death-rates from individual causes, or
from groups of diseases are expressed as
per 10000.
The following Is a general summary Of
the births, marriages. and deaths in 1895:
| BIRTHS.
Sex-Males. 1909; females, 7l44; not
ct ated, 16. Total, IA, 1852.
Pare ntage-American, $500; foreign,
2977. one parent foreign, 226l; not stated,
215. Total, 14,762.
Whole number of births, 14,762.
| Birth-rate per 1000, %. 33.
| MARRIAGES.
| Groom and bride both American, 1905.
| Groom and bride both foreign. GA.
| Groom American, bride foreign, 408.
Groom foreign, bride American, 4lS.
| Net. stated, 224.
Whole number of MARI ages, 5729.
Marriage rate per 1000, 500.
DEATHS.
stated, 10. Total, 10,464.
| Parentage-American, 1896; foreign,
1888; not stated, 2S1. Total, 10.464.
| Death rate per 1000 of population, IL. 49,.
| As the total number Of births Restored
in Maine in the year 1895 was IA, 762 and
| the number Of deaths was 10, 464, the
natural increase Of births over deaths was
1898.
| MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
The number of marriages registered in
the state during the year 1895 was 5729
ls94.) We have therefore, for the year
1895, marriage rate Of 1874 (persons
married) to every 1000 of population. or
at thesrate Of S.67 marriages per 1000 per-
| sons.
Marriage-rates-The marriage-rate was
higher in Aroostook county than else
where in the state, as in the preceding
year, 1t being for that country 21.90 per
1000. The lowest marriage-rate, that of
IL. 40 per 1000. was in Shgadahoc county.
Comparing the marriage-rate of Maine,
1874 per 1000, with that of the other New
England states, we find that for the same
year. 1895, it was in New Hampshire
lO.52; in Vermont, 49, 81; Massachusetts,
10. 4S; Rhode Island. 1872; and Connecti-
@ ut, 1862
Seasons-The largest number of mar
riages 682, was solemnized in October.
while the smallest number in any one
month, 307, occurred in March.
Ages of the Marie d-The largest num-
Der, both Of grooms and brides, was be-
| tween 90 and 25 years of age. While still
underss15 years of age, 20 brides were mar
ri ed n the aoa.poriod on x-anrc 49,