The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1919-08-29
sTORK FAR AHEAD
0F GRIM REAPER.
Report Shows Births in 22 States
Exceed Deaths by 44
Per Cent.
BlRTARATE 24.s PER 1000
Rep0Ffs From Registration Area Show
HirtfA Aof 14,ss4 Pairs Of Twlns
Y si2d 1855 Sets Of TripIets
In 1917.

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WashIf jyton.---In the birth-registra-
on ar&1 Of the United States 1861
" in{aIts were born alive In 1917,
spres16 Ing d birth rate Of 248 per
600 WI plation.
The hI number of deaths In the
line a was 778222, or 14.1 per
900. y births exceeded the deaths
7 "a r cent. For every state In
le re ration area, for practically
1 the les and for nearly all the
,unflo the births exceeded the
sathsl most cases by considerable
ropQs b. The mortality rate for
Ifapf nder one year Of age aver
;eiI per 1000 living births.
III1 regolng are among the facts
'oiI1 8gp.& the census bureaus
innS phtplHy ion Of birth statistics.
Th9 Nhilat,istratlon area, estab-
Shed 1Blsfghas grown rapidly. 1t
Inir disihsl917 the six New Eng
i'd tntes.s Indiana, Kansas, Ken
6l Maryland, Michigan Washing
r tseonsin and the District OF Co
ID md had an estimated popula-
81 $4,000, 900. or about SO per cent
estimated total population of
hited States In that year.
Comparison With 1916.
he birth rate for the entire birth.
&istration area fell below that for
9 by two-tenths Of one per 1000
pulation; but the death rate was
Bs by six-tenths of one per thousand
|an iff 1916. Thus the excess of the
nth rate over the death rate for 1917,
hich amounted to 1916 per 1000. was
mewhat greater than the correspond
excess for 1916, 10.1 per 1000,
hough 1t fell slightly below that for
%, 109 per 1000.
II the birth and death rates prevail
g In any one Of these three years
.]fe to remain unchanged, and II no
ration were to take place to or
d the area to which they relate, Its
hlation would increase at the rate
lightly more than ] per cent per
hm, or little more than 10 per
tn decade. This would be about
the rate-21 per cent--by which
entire population of the United
increased between 1900 and
e total number Of births report
,2Ss, or PAS per 1000, were of
[lfants, and 73,504, or 25.8 per
Fere of negro infants. The
ties for the two elements Of
platlon were 1877 and 22.5 per
Ipeetively.
fant mortality rate-that is.
er of deaths of infants under
Of age per 1000 born alive
lt the birth-registration area
e was 93.8 in 1917, as against
'6 and 100 in 1915. This is
I1ft to saying that in 1915 and
~ cry ten infants born alive
!se fore reaching the age of
Varees In 1917 the corre-
I7|z was trifle more than
l1IS nong the twenty states
he5< d from ey,4 for Min
les71 Maryland, and for
he IN separately the
owe ,st rates were 66.3
or q 1905 for New
Han
I1 rality rates vary
great sexes and for the
vanic les The rate for
male 1917, 1887 per 1000
livlnE as pearly So per cent
graHici lat for female infants,
which y 83.a When the COM
parison lde on the basis of race
Of natlo y of mother a minimum Of
aa.2 peI 1000 births is shown for in
fants + mothers born In Denmark,
Nervzfk kpd Sweden, and a maximum
e II flor infants with mothers born
] n1, while for negro children the
IL ~ 13S.0
l|4 reports from the registration
res Dow DE birth Of 14S94 pairs Of
vim Ind 155 sets Of triplets In 1917
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