Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-22
national DEATH RATE
Statistic. From the Census
Bureau Show q Marked De.
crease Since 1890.
Science and Sanitation is In.
creasins the Averafe Length
Of Life.
Death Rate From Consumption
and Contase Gus Diseases
Growing Less.

Y washington. Aug. 22.-Accordins I,
the mortality statistics issued by tn,
census bureau yesterday. Chicago is on,
OF the healthiest large cities in tn,
country. The deaths in Chicago for 1870,
We're 21,5S3 with census population O
l'osS,516. Hhis gives mortality rate O.
only 1862, whereas the rate in 1890 wa.
1911
10 show what this rate of 1862 death.
per thousand annually means, it is onl,
necessary to quote few of the rates fol-
other large cities which the bulletir
gives as followse New York, 2o.4; Bos
ton, POI; Philadelphia, PIP; Washing.
ton, 22s; San Francisco, POS; New Or.
leans, ESQ; Cincinnati. 1911; ST. Louis
l.s; Indianapolis, 1911; Cleveland, III
milwaukee. with a death rate of 1919
st. Paul with 81, and Minneapolis witt
l0.S are the only cities of the first rank
Which have better showing than Chi.
cago. Looking into the classes of deaths
in the city. the total of 1888 may be
subdivided variously as follows: Male
1915; female, 1880; white 26.S54; col.
ored, 679; native, 1885; foreign, 1858
There is, of course, shown the usual
mortality among little children. OF the
1858 deaths in the city last year, no less
than 9.4OS or more than one-third, were
OF children under years of age.
w. A. King, chief of the vital statis-
tics division, says:
The most important feature of the
results presented is found in the de-
crease in the general death rate in the
registration area of 1.S per 1000 of popu-
lation. a decrease of nearly 10 per cent,
and the decrease in the rates from the
particular diseases to which the general
decrease is due.
The effect of the advances made in
medical science and sanitation and in
the preventive and restrictive measures
enforced by the health authorities is
still more strikingly shown in the COM
parativd rate for the registration cities
of the country taken together. In 1890
the death rate in 21 registration cities OF
5000 or more people was 81 per 1000; in
1900 the rate was 1876 per 1000 in BAL
cities of 5000 population and upward, a
reduction of "a per 1000. The gross pop
ulation of the cities comprehended was
14,95S.254 in 1890, and q, 663,631 in 1900.
The average age at death in 1890 was
I'LL years; IN lSOU II was 3o.2 years.
The total number OF deaths reported
in 1900 was 1,oss.094; in 1900 it was SAL
419. The increase therefore was 1855,
or 2s.5 per cent. AS the percentage of
increase in the population was but 20.7,
this indicates more complete return Of
deaths than in 1890.
1.-The record of deaths upon which
these statistics are based was obtained
from two different sources-namely. the
return by the enumerators Of deaths re-
ported to them at the decennial enumer-
alton, and the registration OF deaths re-
corded under local laws and ordinances.
In the non-registration states no COM
parison with 1890 are made"
The cities with a population above
100000 show the following death rates
for 1900 and 1890. respectively: