Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-11-08

rate as low has been recorded fol
any previous years of registration.
The early publication of the data
relating to the mortality OF the year
1908 for the registration area of the
United States was only made posi-
Bile by the increased promptncss OF
the returns from the state and city
Offices, most of which now make
monthly reports.
The registration area embraces
the registration states and separate
registration cities, in non-registra-
ton states accepted by the Census
Bureau as having approximately
complete registrations of death
based upon the requirement Of COM
pulsory burial permits. For the
year 1908 the registration states
were: California, Colorado, Connec-
ticut, Indiana, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Dakota, Vermont, Washington and
Wisconsin.
The District of Columbia and "a
registration cities in non-registra-
ton states, together with the regis
tration states mentioned, made up
the aggregate registration area for
1908, whose total estimated popula-
ton for the year was 45.02S,767 OF
over one-half (51.S per cent? of the
total estimated population of the
continental United States, which was
S6,S74,990. The addition of Ohio
for the year 1909 has still further
increased the percentage of the pop
ulation reporting to 55.2 per cent,
and other areas may be included for
the calendar year 1910, for which di-
rect comparisons of the mortality
statistics can be made with the pop
ulation enumerated by the Thir-
teenth Census.
The total number of deaths re-
turned for the year 1908 from the
aggregate registration area was
691,574. For the preceding year
the number of deaths was 6S7,03i
or only 4.54O less than the 1906
returns, although the registration
area for 1908 was increased by
Washington and Wisconsin. The
year 1908 was one of remarkably
low mortality throughout the United
states so far as can be determined
from the available registration rec
ords and was marked by genera
absence of severe epidemics and Of
unusual mortality from other causes
Females contributed slightly
larger proportion of the deaths IN
1908 than they did in 1907, but tn,
actual number of deaths of male'
registered for 1908 was less than fo
1907. The percentage of males wal
54.3 and of females 45.T. The fig
ures for age periods show a some
| what increased per cent of death
of infants under year for 1908
| Tut the rations for each of the in
dividual years from | to are identi
cal for 1907 and 1908. A clos
agreement appears in the subse
quent five year periods, although
there was a slightly more favorabl
showing for 1908 for the age period
| from 10 to 40 years.
Nearly one-fifth of all the death
that occurred were those of infant
under one year of age and over one
fourth are children less than fv
years of age. ...
For both 1907 and 1908, 93.3 pc
cent of all deaths were those o
white persons. which shows the un
equal division of the registration
area In this respect. Maryland |
the only registration state with
considerable proportion .(23.6 pc
cent? of colored population.
Nearly one-fourth of all death
registered were those of person
born outside of the United States
The states having the largest pr
portion Of nativo-born Americans o
native stock, are, DR.. Wilbur states
the ones In which IL is the mos
difficult to secure the passage of ef
fective registration laws. There
fore, the actual mortality of Ameri
cans of native parentage is not full,
represented In the registration area
although over two-thirds of TIT
deaths registered were of natiy,
born persons, and one third We're o
native born with native parents.
1t appears that the month of max
imum mortality in 1908 was Janu
AIRY, with G1,763 deaths, and that o
minimum mortality was June, will
1901 deaths.
The death rates of the individual
registration states vary for the yea'
| 1908 from 1874 for California Il