The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-11-01
RATE OF MURDERS
IN VIRGINIA TOPS
THAT Of COUNTRY
Showing Made by This State
Surprising Acco1c n to ke-
port of Health board to
Governor Yesterday.
Double the Number Per Hun
bred Thousand Shown by
Country at Large--Suicide
Rate Negroes luber-
culosis Victims.

The number OF murders in Virginia
Der 100, 900 of population during the
4 year ending July, 1918. was doaoie
that Of the country at large, ana
greater than the large majority Of the
states of Union outside the Sonuh'
according to the first vital statistics
reports ever made by the Virginia
health department, and sent 10 the
public printer yesterday,
The rate was IFS per one hun
dred thousand population as against
6.s per hundred thousand Tor the
whole country. The actual number OF
murders IN Virginia for the year was
245.
Suicides, on the other hand, were
sYnaller in number in virginia imam
in the country Mt large. The rate for
Virginia was 60 per 10000. Wh'ie
that for the country was l6.2.
a fact Of interest disclosed In the
report Is that there were no murders
in Carroll county. the home Of the
Allen clan. during tle year.
T. First Report.
The eeures are included in ~" HrS{
ra.ort ,1n1ar the vital statistics law.
nassad At the last session Of The ieEls-
iature. and viii form a large poFf,ot
OF health boards report When tn4a
renort is made pubic many feiaafN-
able features concerning the heaS1
conditions throughout the state VIII
he @,oYcn. II II est nated that thH
report in one Of the most ~NAa 3StFe
and accurate which has ever been
rnrn rtfef by q state department
night that this degree Of accuracy hAa
been obtained through h gener-
o,,s 81 @Rcu Of she various TraT1s
throaahnnt the STATE. many u "hSca
had made exhaustive INQUIRIES n.y.
4 sffa+ ene phases ~ disease. DR.. free~
49, stated shat never ir the history
~ Il 4n4krtsv he'd tsAre been caa5-
ssss.as Nh absolutely accurate report on
sxss3 satisfies. bat II il estimated that
fnls first atfer8ot Of the virgins
|r.s.ara 10 compile slch hgures has re
suited in the securing 81 az least w.
ner cant Of the deaths. and SO Ter
cent Of the births.
Tuberculosis Among NegrTffs.
The State death rate from tHnSt
rnlseis ia large, but this is QUO W WV.
faet that the colored rate Is oHe "a
~ "a r,rae+ whfch has ever been re-
roraef. while the death rate Tor lne
coun.yv al large la t8S Ter 1e0 ee"
that far the State Is las, I1@ col@fF'
rnte stands nj sEs. while that ~ fhe
white population Is aS.4. The conn.
ttans shown hv those figures has lea
IN. sapar4nent TO urge the
rnent of a s-anatorlun for the care "'
cnlored c~cnsufnptNAf.
Although the rate OF deaths for fht
State ls rather high there mas ~,
a decline in the number of CASES re
nartaa. for. whereas in the previous
war there were reported SsS3 case
las, year only s.27& We're brought "
the attention Of the board.
The number OF typhoid eases snow
an alarming Increase, hut the depart
1,ent explains this by referring tn tl'
condition Of the weather durlhE to'
two yenrs. A total Of 1o,hfl ease
are Included in the statistics 1or Lh'
PAST year while IN that previous. At'@'
Was the total. The hard winter an'
.e~r,frly hot summer 81 last yea
made ideal conditions fer the spread
snr az the disease and throughout Rh'
co,,nfrv records show that there va
n great increase in the rarages OF th'
fever. The oar before, though WI
inst the reverse. and was one OF w
hes, wears In recent history for LOW
rates of sickness death RIVER
though the years figures, IN th!s r.
gard. are high. they are less by 1'SV.
than any previous Twelve th"hI'S
WIN the HAttHhtRH s&s
f,eathS From Fever.
Deaths FROM The fever totaiea SIS
which as compared with the inquire
given in the United states report 70
1900 for Virginia, IS a very sfnal
umbe In that year the govern
ment reported 9t4 deaths. or a rat
j Of 49.3 per 10000. H is generalA
needed that l0.ooa cases per yea
Is a fair averaGs and In Wow or I'M
the Virginia total Is regarded as penn
low. The rate per 100000 popula
lion ;s a44. and a decrease is note
OF sos over the number reported b
the government IN 1893
Pellagra. which is a disease OF re
cent discovery, has not been reGarde
as ANYTHING serious, but acCordlfl
to the: state health authorities is no,
proving to be a growing menace.
Is shown in the report or the oepar'
ment chat 1t is twenty-seven per Ger
as serious as typhoid, there BEN
within the past year i45 deaFhs iFo'
II.
Figures concerning the total nun
Der Of deaths. both coiored and whit
show that the former II much highs
fhan the latter. ut is a safe rule
stated Or. Freeman yesterday, y
|compute the negro death rate |
douhfing that of The whites ana SUI
3Utsacting two. The statistics SHOW TN
16boS whites died last year and tn
"1f.gS3 negroes We're reported a.
lceased. This gives death rates or II
land 1a.1, respectively, per 100000
Interpolation.
white Birth Rate Large.
In compiling the statistics on u
births throughout the State or vi
Rginia. it was discovered that whefe'
there are many more white boys boz
than girls. the number OF femai
births among the negroes Is great
III excess Of the male births, II
fgures show that 3 5.20S white brit
konk place and that 1890 neg
births were reported. The board G
tmated, however. that the real uun
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