New-York tribune., 1912-01-28
GREAT SCOURCES ARE
PROVING LESS FATAL
Tuberculosis and Typhoid Rates
Show Decline in 1910 Death
Statistics.
INFANT MORTALITY HEAVY
More Males than Females Sue.
cumbed in Area Covered,
Census Bureau Figures
Indicate.

Washington. Jan. 27.-More males than
females. more married persons than single
and more infants than adults died during
1910 according TO the death statistics gath
cred by the Census Bureau in IT'S rcgistra-
ton area. containing about 55S'S,S9o per-
sons, or little more than half the CONT
mental population of the United States.
Infant mortality, as usual, was r1ost con-
spicuous in the figures. OF the NS.4l2
deaths registered for 1910 s65,674 were single
persons. 276 694 married, 1885 widowed 4'SSV
divorced and S.S1s "of unknown or unstated
conjugal conditions" Among the single
are included children below the age Of mar
riage. The total number Of r1aics was 45S-
757 and S65,655 females.
Classified by color 75S,3OS were deaths OF
white persons 49, 499 negroes. 1.0S5 Chinese
SS6 Indians and 664 japanese. The few ne
groes reported means a small number were
IN the area Of registration. The maximum
death rate was reached in March and the
minimum in June.
tuberculosis in different forms claimed
$500 persons, or 4,474 more than in 1909
This increase was said to be due to the in
creased area now covered by the Census
Bureau. since the death rate for each 100000
reputation Tor lSlU was blsHNlN ASSS N'''"
that Of the previous year
Deaths by Age Periods Outlined.
Classified according 10 ages, the 1910 death
census shows
Infants under one year. 154S7S; $3.50 were
one wear old. l4.727, two years old: 8;S0S
three years old 6.331, four wears old: NJ
si9 were under five years 1898, sve to nine
YEARS old 235 262 were under ten years old'
Sl.50S, ten to nineteen; 62,957 twenty to
twenty-nne; 6S957. thirty to thirty-nine
1885 forty 10 forty-nine: S1.5iO hfty 70
seventy TO seventy-nine; 5l,46i, eighty 70
eighty-nine, and 1874 were ninety years oiu
and over
Among the deaths tuberculosis (ali forms
was the most important causa, being re-
sponsible for 1O7 per cent of the total; or
Sanic diseases of the heart followed with
sB per cent: diarrhea and erterirs. Is per
cent; pneumonia 0obar and uudehne6 81
per cent; acute nephritis. Brignts disease,
Sc per cent: accident SIS per cent: cancer
and other malignant tumors (all forms) 81
per cent; cerebral hemorrhage apopleXy, 49
per cent; bronchopneumonia, 81 per cent
premature birth, 20 per cent; congenital de-
bility, 10 per cent: old age, IL per cent;
typhoid fever, 1.6 per cent bronchitis (acute
and chronic) 16 per cent; dipntheria and
Group. IA per cent; diseases Of the arteries
L. etc, Ia per cent; suicide IL per cent, and
NIO per cent each for influenza diabetes,
.psralysis without specified cause other
y diseases Of the stomach (ca1cer excepted
and nalformatons.
Causes by Age Periods Classified.
For infants under one and one and two
years Of age diarrhea and enteritis were
the most important causes of death, the
percentage being 200. $50 and 1919, respec-
lively. Diphtheria and GROUP caused the
largest proportion Of deaths Of children
three and four years old. the percentage
being 1864 and 1872, respectively For the
entire group of children under Eve years
OF age, Ithe leading causes were diarrhea
and entefitis, 26.3. and for children from
FIVE to nine diphtheria and Group, 1874.
Diarrh9a and enteritis caused 2tS per cent
of all deaths among children under ten
years old
tuberculosis caused by far the largest
proportion Of deaths at each ten-year age
period from ten to fifty years. thus:
At ten TO nineteen years Il formed A5
Per cent of the total deaths; at twenty 10
twenty-nine years, $50; thirty to thirty
nine, 2S.5; forty to forty-nine. lS.S fifty TO
ffty-nine, sixty. TO sixty-nins,. seventy to
seventy-nine. eighty TO eighty.nne. ninety
and over. the percentages. were 1912, 81, "a,
os and o.. respectively.
Organic diseases of the heart constituted
the most important causes Of death at each
age period between fifty and uiuety years
Of age and also at the period ninety years
and over. "Old age" 10 which the larg-
est proportion (276 per cent? of deaths
ct this period is assigned is TO ,arge ex-
tent equivalent TO the statement that the
cause Of death is unknown. The percentage
OF deaths from this cause at the age Pc
riods. fifty to fifty mine, sixty to sixty-nine,
seventy TO seventy-nine eighty to eighty
nine, ninety and over, was 1874 1872, 1913,
IA and Ill., respectively.
5riqht's Disease and Cancer.
Acute nephrItis. Brights disease. caused
from "a TO So per cent Of the deaths at the
ten-year age periods from ten TO thirty
nine years of age but 1t increased to 9.5
per cent at forty TO forty-nine years. ad-
Vancing again to III per cent at fifty to
fifty-nine years. still increasing to I'll per
cent at sixty 10 sixty-nine years. then
falling 10 III per cent at seventy TO sew
enty-nine years. decreasing again TO S5
per cent at eighty to eighty-nine years and
finally becoming 54 per cent at ninety
years and over
Cancer is not charged with any per-
centages in the age periods up "a a.usaeteen
years but II formed IL per cent at twenty
TO twenty-nine years, i3S per cen: at thirty
20 thirty-nine years, 90 per cent at forty
so forty mine years 121 per cent at fifty
TO ifty-nine years, Ill per cent at sixty to
sixty-nine years. 7s per cent at seventy
TO seventy-nine years, 45 per cent at
eighty TO eighty-nine years ana % per
cent AT ninety years and over.
Typhoid fever caused so per cent of the
deaths at the age period ten to nineteen
years, but decreased TO so per cent at
twenty 10 twenty-nine years. to 32 per cent
at thirty TO thirty-nine years, to is per
cent at forty TO forty-nine years, to IL
per cent at fifty TO fifty-nine years there
being none for the remaining age periods.
Cerebral hemorrhage, or apoplexy, began
its course with OF per cent of all the
deaths at the twenty to twenty-nne years
age period. then constantly increasing to
IL at thirty to thirty-nine years, 40 at
forty to forty-nine years. 10 at fifty TO
years, 121 at seventy TO seventy-nine years,
but falling TO 1913 at eighty to eighty-nine
years and 75 at ninety years and over.
Accident mot including injuries at BIRTH
I Now Is "Blosch" and Freekle Time