The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-16
TABLE Of MORTALITY
STATISTICS IN ]. S,

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Average death rate in the Uni. >,
8 ted States Is 1866 per 1000 Of pop. ::
% Hlation. %
Annual deaths-1,2s0.OOO les. .
o timated).
Compared with other countries g,
mortality rate in this country is .,
. lower than In any other country :
. n the world excepting Norway .
. and Sweden. .
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Special to The Evening Times.
Washington, D. c., July 16.-The
bureau of the census has just publish
ed report presenting mortality sta
tistics for the United States for the
five calendar years 1900 to 1904. This
report was prepared under the super
vision of the late William A. King,
chief statistician for vital statistics.
The annual compilation of statistics
OF mortality was authorized by the act
of congress establishing the permanent
census Office. The statistics however
do not cover the entire country, but in
accordance with the provisions Of the
act, are restricted to what is termed
comprises those states and cities which
have laws requiring the registration
OF deaths affOrding satisfactory and
comparable data. In 1904 it included
II states and 334 cities which had at
least 5000 population in 1900. The IL
registration states are Connecticut,
District OF Columbia, Indiana, Maine,
Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hamp-
shire, New Jersey. New York. Rhode
island and Vermont: the 1874 registra-
tiun cities include, in addition to the
cities An the registration states con-
siderable number which are in nonreg-
istration states.
These states and cities, composing
tia registration area, included in 1904
a population of 32,996, $3.50, or only a
trihe more than two-fifths of the es-
timated population of the United States.
For the remainder of the United States
are have at present no mortality statis-
tics which are sufficiently reliable and
complete to be included in this report
The registration area. however, IS
gradually increasing in extent, as the
various states and cities come to real
iEa the importance OF having adequate
registration laws and of effectively en-
forcing them.
The number of deaths reported in
the registration area in 1900 was $780,
S3S, and the death rate per 1000 of
population was 176. In 1901 the rate
declined to 1876 and in 1902 to lG. The
rate increased in 1908 to 162 and in
for the five years was 1876 per 1000
The average annual death rate in
the registration area OF the United
States was less than the rate in any OF
the foreign countries specified except
Norway and Sweden.
The average annual death rate in
the registration areas was l7.S per
1000 in the cities of 5000 or more
population in 1900 and 1913 per 900
in rural districts, which as the term
is here used, includes everything out
side of these cities Rhode Island is
the only registration state in which
the rate was as high in the rural dis
tricts as in the cities. But in New
Hampshire. Massachusetts and Con-
necticut, the urban rate exceeded the
rural by less than 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 re-
sort 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.