The Jersey City news., 1906-07-07
The DEATH RATE.
OF new JERSEY
Bureau Of the Census Has
Just Issued Statistics Of
the Country's Mortality
In Five Years
NUMBERS HAVE DECREASED
HEALTH IN THE RURAL PARTS
OF NEW JERSEY is BETTER
THAN IN THE CITIES OUR
CONSUMPTION DATA

THAN In THE CITIES - OUR
CONSUMPTION DATA
The Bureausof Census at Washington
has just published report presenting
mortality statistics for the United States
for the FIVE calendar years 1900 to 1904.
The statistics do not cover the entire
country, but are rdeshicted toewhat is
termed the Registration area" This
area comprises those States and cities
which have laws requiring the registra-
ton of deaths and and possesses decords
affording satisfactory and comparable
comparable data. In 1904 it included
eleven States and 334 cities, which had
at least 5000 population in 1900 The
eleven registration States are Connecti-
cut, District of Columbia, Indinana,
Maine Massachusetts, Michigan, New
1ldlhpSHiEc, 1NeW JelSoy' NJ" ioih,
Rhode Island and Vermont; the 334 reg
istration cities include in addition to the
cities in the eleven registration States, a
considerable number which are in nom
registration States.
These States and cities, composing the
registration area, included in 1904 a
population of 80, $685. 9S9, or only a trife'
more than two-fifths of the estimated
population of the United States. For
the remainder of the United States we
have at present no mortality statistics
which are sufficiently reliable and COM
plete to be included in this report. The
registration area, however, is gradually
increasing IN extent.
The number of deaths reported in the
registration area in 1906 was $50, ,93Y,
and the death rate per 1000 of pqpula-
ton was 17.6. In 1901 the rate declined
to 1866 and in 1902 to 16. The rate in
creased in 1903 10 1862 and in 1904 to
16.7 The average annual rate for the
j five years was 1866 per thousand This
is exactly the New Jersey rate for the
period.
The average annual death rate in the
registration area of the United States,
the comparison being made for the years
19OO-19O3. was less than the rate in Eng
land and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Ger
many, Hungary, the Ntherlands, Bel
gium, Switzerland, Spain and Italy. II
was greater than the rate in Norway anG.
Sweden
| The average annual death rate in the
registration States was lis per 1000 in
the cities of 5000 or more population in
1900 and 14.3 per 1000 in rural districts,
which, as the term is here used, in
cludes everything outside these cities.
Rhode Island is the only registration
State in which the rate was as high in
the rural districts as in the cities. But
| in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New
! Hampshire the urban rate exceeded the
rural by less than one per 1000. The
excess was greatest in New Jersey, New
York and Maine
The higher mortality for cities is due
largely to the fact that residents of
rural districts when critically i'll resort to
the hospitals and institutions in the
cities for treatment and that the deaths
occurring in such cases are registered in
the cities, thus Increasing the urban
mortality.
The average annual rates were lowest
in st. Joseph, Mo. GO; Owosso, Mich
! GOD. Lincoln, Neb d04). and st. Paul
MINI. 900, and highest in Charleston
| $. G. (21.3); Wilmington, n G. (29.2)
and Jacksonville, Fla. (2S.1).
There were fortyfour cities in which
the average annual death rate for the
FIVE years was twenty or more per 900
Nineteen of these cities are located III
the Southern States.
tuberculosis of the lungs and pneu
monia are by far the leading causes OF
death. The average annual mortality
from tuberculosis Of the lungs. or con
sumption, 1900 to 1904, was 1926 pei
100,uvo Of population. 1t is gratifying
to note that the rate has shown mared
1 define since 1890, when it was 245 4
This indicates that the warfare against
the white plague is meeting with success
The mortality from this disease iii the
registration area in the United States is
lower than it is in Ireland, Germany
Norway, Spain and Switzerland, but
higher than in England and Wales. Scot
land, the Netherlands, Belgium and
Italy, 0f the whole number of deaths
frem tuberculosis Of the lunges $50 pei
cont. on mere than one half, occurred