The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-03-07
VIOLENT DEATHS INCREASE:
MORTALITY RECORD ISSUED
BY BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
tuberculosis Leads Table
With Rate of 1894 Per
100000.

Deaths from violence are on the In
crease,
The number or males that meet death
by violence is several times greater than
the number of females that die by vio-
lence.
The death rate from cancer shows
a general increase. and this is true OF
foreign countries, as well as of this
country.
Boston. Mass. shows the highest
death rate from cancer Of any city
whose statistics are In the possession OF
the Census Bureau.
tuberculosis OF The lungs holds first
rank as the deadllest malady affecting
the population Of this country. Next
10 IL stands pneumonia, and third on
khe list is heart disease.
The death rate OF the United states
and. in fact, OF tho civilized world. -
showing a tendency TO decrease.
Report Issued.
The Bureau Of the Census has just
published its seventh annual report on
mortality statistics, which presents the
figures for the calendar year 1896, to-
gethe- with comparative data for the
years 1907 10 1905. inclusive.
The statistics in the report do not
cover the entire country. but are re-
stricted to that portion OF It termed the
registration area that IS, 20 States
in which the laws requiring the regis
tration OF deaths have been accepted as
giving practically complete mortality re-
turns, and to those cities in nOnregistra-
ton districts in which satisfactory re-
aurns are required by the loca! authort-
aies.
The death rate from suicide showed a
marked decrease in 1906, while from 1902
90 1905 there was a large Increase each
year. The number OF suicides In 1906,
according to the report, was 1908. OF
which 4,Su were males and 1872 fe-
males. The largest number Of male sui
cides for any fiye-year-age period were
between the ages OF thirty-five and
ahirty-nine, and the largest number OF
female suicides were between the ages
twenty-five and twenty-nine,
Fifteen States.
The registration area in 1905 consisted
fif fifteen registration States, the Dis
Irict Of Columbia and seventy-seven
registration cities in nonregistration
States. The States were California.
Maryland. Massachusetts, Michigan,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
South Dakota, and Vermont. The esti-
mated population Of the entire registra-
ton area IN 1903 was 40996.317, OF ass
per cent OF the estimated population OF
continental United States. OF this num-
Der 1885, lSZ persons. or S9.3 per cent
OF the total population, were in regis
tration States, and 1888, 535 persons or
SIS per cent, were in registration cities
in nOnreg1stration States.
Pulmonary tuberculosis was the cause
of 65,341 deaths IN the registration area
for 1906 and the death rate per 10000 Of
population was 1894. as compared with
rate Of 1882 for 1906. A part of the
decrease was due TO the inclusion of
new States with q low mortality rate
but there was also a genuine decrease
IN the rate IN the o registration area
Colorado Leads.
The States with the lowest mortality
rates were South Dakota, $50 and Mich
igan Sol. Those with the highest rates
were colorado, 1923. and California. 23I5
The high rates IN the two Inter States
the report says, must not be construed
as indicating the prevalence of tuber-
CulOsis among the native population as
these States have many climatic aTvan-
Tages for cOnsumptives, and u IS prob-
able that large number OF the deaths
are 20 be counted 10 legal residents of