Evening journal., 1915-04-12

enumerated in 1910, 5.192.535. or II
per cent. were reported as gainfully
employed the percentage for males
and females being STA and 54,7 re-
spectivoly. The corresponding per-
centages for native whites were 779
and 1872. OF the gainfully employed
Negro males. 3O.9 per scent.-almost
one-third-were farm laborers, and
25 per cent we're farmers. The other
leading occupation groups for Negro
males, with the percentage OF the
total represented by each, we're as
follows: Laborers. building and
hand trades. %; laborers. saw and
planning mills. 2.9 laborers, steam
railroad. 2.7; porters, except in
stores, l.6; draymen. teamsters and
eXpressmen. l.6; coal mine opera
tives, 1.2; laborers. porters and help
ers in stores, IL; walters, IL;
laborers, road and street building and
repairing. IL: cooks. 10; delivery
men, stores. 10: carpenters, 10.
For females, the leading capacities N
which employed, with the percentage
represented by each. were as follows;
Farm laborers, 4S.l; laundresses mot in
laundry, l7.9; cooks. l0,2; farmers, 80;
drcssmakers and seamstresses mot in
factory, 10; school teachers, IL.
Farms operated by Negroes in 1910
numbered S93,370 and were valued at
ISL ll2. .OOO. 600. The total number OF
farms in the United States in that yeaI
was 6,36l .502 and their value was $40.
99l 40 600. Ninety eight and six -tenth'
per cent. of the Negro farms we're situ'
ated in the South The increases be
tween 1900 and 1910 in number anc
value of farms operated by Negroes were
, at the rate of 1916 per cent. and 1884 pei
, cent, respectively, while the correspond
, ing increases for farms operated by
( whites were % per cent. and 1915 pei
= cent. respectively The average acreagl
2 per farm operated by Negroes was 4T.3
, as compared with an average acreage o
l53 for farms operated by whites Three
fourths Of the Negro farmers were ten
ants and one-fourth owners, in 1910
while more than two-thrds of the whit
farm operators we're owners. Mississippi
showed the highest aggregate value o
, farms operated by Negroes followed b.
. Georgia, South Carolina and Texas.
= The bulletin presents for the first
E time data regarding mortality among
2 ! Negroes. All previous publications
/ have given statistics for the tota
z colored population. which included
e the Chinese. Japanese. Indians. anC
. other non-whites. The death rate In
o. 1910 for the registration area" whict
D in that year comprised $50 per cent
4 of the total population of the United
q States. but only 1877 per cent. of tn,
> Negro population. was 25.5 per cent
/ per / 1000 population for the Negroes
( and t46 per cent. per 1000 for The
n whites; decrease Of 3.9 per cent. fol
4 the former and 2.5 per cent. for thu
;. latter. as compared with 1900.
The average death rate amoni
Negroes in 80 northern cities, eacl
having a Negro population of at leas
i, $500 in 1910, was 25.1 per cent. pc
e 900 as compared with 1871 per cent
i for the whites. a decrease of 20 pc
= cent for the Negroes and 2.5 per cent
I. for the whites. A similar comparison
n for "a southern cities shows a rate o
. 29.6 forNegroes, a decrease of 40 pc
4 cent, and 1863 per cent. for whites,
!, decrease of 90 per cent. when com
: pared with 1900.
= Deaths caused by malaria. tuber
= culosis of the lungs. other forms o
Il tuberculosis, pneumonia, and whoop
ing cough are relatively more numer
Gus among Negroes than smon
. whites: while the mortality due Z
: measles, scarlet fever. diphtheris
. cancer, appendicitis. diarrhoea, an
: violence Cincluding suicide) is notice
ably higher among whites.
Religious Bodies.
The latest statistics OF religion
bodies which have been collected b
the Bureau OF the Census relate Z
. the year 1906. In that year ther
: we're 36.770 Negro church organiza
il tions with 3.6S5.097 communicates o
& members. Between 1890 and 1870
r the number OF Negro church organi
z cations increased by S6.7 per cen
n and the number OF communicates o
IS memher BY 37.s per cent, the in
" cree Negro population during tn
sane riod being 2s.1 per cent.