Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-01
Figures for Maine for the
Year 1903.
A Summary Of Or. A. 6. Young's
18th Annual Report.
Our Deaths, Marriages, Births and Divorces
According 10 Official Figures.


nor and Council. the 18th annual report
| relating to the births, marriages, d.
vorces and deaths which were regis
tered in Maine during the year 1908.
The number OF births registered 70,
the year is 80 less than in the pre-
ceding year. The number Of marriages
mumbcr of couples marrie,D during tn,
year was 600, which vas :95 larger
than the preceding year. The number
of deaths recorded in the State, i'll 1903
was 11,OO9, or 336 more than in the pre-
ccdlnG year compared with the previ-
Gus year, among the chief causes of
death there were "A more from in
fluenZa, 20 more from diseases of the
nervous system, IS more from diarrheaI
diseases, GO more from typhoid fever, C2
more from ncphritis aud Brights dis
ease. SO more from wi:ooning cough, Sc
more from diseases of heart. 10 more
from rheumatism, l. more from pneu-
nionia. more from diabetes, s more
from measles, and ) NOR. from scarlet
fever. On the other hanl, there was 4
smaller number of deaths from the fol-
lowing causes: from tuberculosis in al
its forms SO fewer; from bronchitis, 81:
from peritonitis, &c; ami from cancer,
Il.
The whole number Of births for the
year WAS 14,533. divided rs follows:
Males. 14O6; females, 1908; not stated
IA. The parentagc Was as follows:
American, S634: foreign. 1852; one par
ent foreign. 26OO; not stated, 167. The
birth rate per 1000 was POSI- per cent.
Tine 1yhnln IF ny.,.i.,
5000. divided as follows: Groom anu
bride both American, 1901: groom and
bride both foreign, G54; groom Ameri-
can and bride foreign. AZ; groom for
eign and bride American. 534 not
stated. 81. The marriage rate per 1000
was $50 per cent.
The whole number OF deaths was H.
O09, divided as follows: Males, $500;
females. 53iS; not stated, . The
rarentaec was as collows: American,
9425; foreign. 1872: not stated, H. The
death rate per 1000 vas 15.S5 per cent.
The increase of births over deaths dur
ing the year was i121. The number of
living children born was II 453, and the
number of still births, CT.
OF the whole number Of living chill
7,406 were males and 1888 were females
In IA births the sex was not stated.
For each 100 girls born there were 1858
boys. The bilth-rltc Of living children
for the State WAS 20.o1 for each 900 of
population. The aynrag" birth-rate in
the cities per 1000 popuia. on was 21.42
as compared with 2O.522, the birth-rate
of the rest of the State.
The birth-rate of the different cou,,-
tics varied widely. AS it invariably
has been every year since the rcgistra-
ton began. it was The highest in Aroos-
took, 35.45. and the lowest in Waldo,
11.20. In seven counties, ArooStook,
Franklin. Oxford, Penobscot, Piscata-
quis, Washington and York. the birth
rate was above that of the whole State
Of the total births in the State. 1919
per cent. were of native parents; 2l.12
per cent. were of foreign percentages:
1899 per cent, were of parents one of
whom was foreign; while of Lie per
cent. the nationality was not stated.
Waldo county had ihe largest per-
centagc Of native-born parents. to wit.
92.G5 per cent, and only 0.73 per cent. in
which both parents were foreign born.
Lincoln followed with SS.7S per cent. of
of native parcntage, and only 81 per
cent. in which both parents were. for
ciCn-bOrn.
In Hancock county. in S7.43 per cent
of the births the parents were native
born, and in Isl per cent, foreign born.
In Knox. the percentage of natiyc-
born parents was 1911: in Somerset.
1919; in Franklin. 69.72;; and in Piscata-
quis, $50.
Comparatively high percentages Of
foreisn-born parents are found in An
droscoggin county. 43.I per cent: in
York. 1888 per cent: in Cumberland.
2S?S per cent. and in Kennebec, 22.42
per cent.
Comparing the percentage of the
births in our twenty cities with that OF
the rest of the State, we find that. in
the cities. 40.82 per cent. of the births
were Of American p:trcntage, while in
the rura! parts of the State the per-
centage of Amercan-born children was
6921
The largest percentage Of foreign-born
parents was in Biddeford, 1854; and in
Lewiston, 53.45.
In Ellsworth only 1.61 per cent of the
births had both parents forcign-born.
and in Belfast there were no foreign
births.
The largest number of births in any
one month was 1864 in April. the
smallest was $50 in December: the
largest quarterly total was 1881 i'm the
second quar- ter:'the smallest. $50 in
the last quarter. The three consecu-
tive months in which the largest num-
Der of births occurred We're March.
April. and May. 4,043.
In 1893, $50 twin-births occurred: in
81 instances the twins were both boys;
in sc. both girls: in 81. a boy and Il
girl, and in l instance the sex was not
stated. In 1O3 cases the parentage
was American; in AZ, foreign: in 81 in
stances the parentage was mixed; and
in it was not stated. OF the $50 chill
dren. 3o7 were born alive, and 80 We're
Still-born.
In Appleton triple birth occurred.
also in Old Town.
OF the 677 still-born children. 50" were
males and 215 were females. In IL the
sex was not stated. With the eXcep-
ton of six still-births, as to which the
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