The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-05-07
Registration Law Work.
ing Well Here.
) MORTALITY RATE IN THE STATE
Was 1872 Per 1000 In 1911
Some Interesting vi.
tally Statistics.
NEW LOW RECORD WAS MADE

> WASHINGTON, May 3.-"Ken-
tucky's birth and death registration
law, which went into effect Jan. 1,
1911, has operated most successful
ly," said DIR. G. l.. Wilbur, Chief
Statistician for Vital Statistics of
the Bureau of the Census. I'm the
first year of the operation of that
law II has raised Kentucky into
that small group of States which
have almost complete registration.
In only about dozen States,
including Kentucky, do the births
reported exceed the census figures
of infants under one year old. From
cursory examination of the re-
ports, better registration work
could be done in Louisville, how
ever. The showing in the cities is
not just what it could be. But,
considering the short time the law
has been in force, the registration
reports for the State have been
highly commendable."
In a report on mortality Stats
tics for 1911, made public by the
Census Bureau to-day, Kentucky
and Missouri appear. in the returns
for the first time. Twenty-three
States are dealt with.
Kentucky's death rate during
1911 was 1872 persons in each L.
900. The death rate for the entire
registration area of the United
States in that year was 14.2 per l.
600.
The death rate from all causes
in the city of Louisville per 1000
population follows: 1911, 1911;
1910, 1871; 1909. 1915; 1908, II.
The annual average death rate
in Louisville from 1906 to 1910
was ia per 1000; from 1901 to
1905, 10.
The total number of deaths re-
turned for the registration area of
the United States for the year 1911
was 839,2S4. The estimated mid
year population of this area was
5a,275,977, or 63.1 per cent. of the
total population of the United
States, and the death rate for the
year was 14.2 per 1000. This is
the lowest death rate ever recorded
for the registration area.
The registration States formed
less than one-half of the total num-
Der of States in the Union. To-
gether with the District of Column
bia, which is included in totals for
the group of registered States, but
tion city, they comprised somewhat
more than one-half of the total es-
tmated midyear population of 1911
(54.3S5, 234. or 579 per cent?
Out of the total of S39,2S4 de-
cedents. 779,77O. or 92.9 per cent
We're whites and 56,431 were ne
groes (the latter including all mix
lures of white and negro blood +.
p while only 1859 were Indians, L.
O6O Chinese and 664 Japanese. The
percentage of deaths OF white per-
sons and of white population is
higher in the registration area than
in the United States as whole.
because none of the Southern
States where the greater proper
tions of negroes are found is as yet
included as a whole in the registra-
tiOn area.
Out of the total of S39,2S4
deaths at all ages, 1,296-an un-
necessarily large number-were of
unknown or unstated age. No less
than 1.O54 of these were reported
from the rural part of the registra-
ton States, a condition suggestive
OF carelessness on the part of local
registrars in rural districts in ac-
cepting certificates of death with
out the statement of the ages of the
decedents Deducting the unknown
or unstated ages, there remain
S27,9SS deaths at known ages, of
which 149,322, or 17.S per cent.
were OF infants under one year of
zee, 2O9,4S2, or % per cent, were
Of children under five years of age,