Baxter Springs news., 1919-07-25
R1pori Shows Births In q States
Exceed Deaths by M
Per Cent.
DIRTR RATE GAG PER 1000
Rsp6rts From Registration Area shoN
nlrth of 14,ss4 PaIrs Of TWlns
and iBs SETS Of TrIplsts
IN 1917.

ton area OF the United States 1,SbS.-
742 lnfants were born alive In 1SlT'
representing q birth rate Of 24.0 per
1000 population.
The total number Of deaths In the
same area was 770222, or 141 per
1000. The births exceeded the deaths
BY 74.l per cent. For every state In
the registration area, for practically
all the clties and for nearly all the
counties, the births exceeded the
deaths, In most cases by considerable
proportions. The mortality rate for
satants under one year Of age aver
ged 9S.6 per 1000 living births.
The foregoing are among the facts
..rouglt out by the census bureaus
annual compilation Of birth statistics.
The blrth-reglstratlon area. estab-
lIshed In 1915, has grown rapidly. II
comprised In 1917 the six New Eng
land states, Indiana, Kansas, Ker
tucly, Maryland. Michigan Washi
tom. Wisconsin and the District Of
lumbia, end had an estimated popula-
tIon OF 65,OOOO0O. or about 5S per cent
OF the estimated total population Of
the United States-ln that year.
Comparison With 1918.
The birth rate for the entire birth
registration area fell below that for
1915 by twotenths Of one per 1000
population; but the death rate. was
less by six-tenths Of one per thousand
than In 1916. Thus the excess Of the
birth rate over the death rate for 1917.
which amounted to 10B per 1000. was
somewhat greater than the correspond
ing excess for 1915. 10.1 per 1000,
although It fen slightly below that for
1916, 109 per 1000.
II the birth and death rates prevail
ing IN any one Of these three years
were to remain unchanged, and II no
migration were to take place to or
from the area to which they relate. It's
population would increase at the rate
OF slightly more than 1 per cent Der
annum, or q little more than 10 per
cent In a decade. This would be about
N the rate-21 per Gently which
entire population Of the United
eraies increased between 1900 and
OF the total number Of births report
ed 1,28O,2 ,2S8. or 24.5 per 1000. were Of
white infants, and 7S,604. or 26.6 per
1000, were Of negro infants. The
death rates for the two elements Of
the population were 1877 and 22.6 per
1000 respectively.
The infant mortality rate-that II,
the number Of deaths Of infants under
one year Of age per 1000 born alive
throughout the birth-registratiOn area
as whole was 9S.0 in 1917. as against
1O1 in 1915 and 100 In 1915. This is
equivalent to saying that In 1915 and
1915 of every ten infants born alive
one died before reaching the age. Of
one year, whereas in 1917 the CORE
spending ratio was q tritie more than
one In eleven. Among the. twenty states
these rates ranged from 67.4 for Min
nesOta to 1199 for Maryland; and for
the white population separately the
lowest and the highest rates were 06.S
for Washington and 109.6 for New
Hampshire.
The infant mortality rates vary
greatly for the two sexes and for the
various natlOnalltIes. The rate for
male infants in 1917, 1897 per 1000
living births, was nearly IS per cent
greater than that for female infants,
(which was only 1873. When the COM
parisou Ii made on the basis Of race
or nationality Of mother minimum Of
)08.2 per 1000 births Is shown for In
Eants with mothers born In Denmark,
Norway and Sweden. and q maximum
Of 1726 for infants with mothers born
In Poland. while for negro children the
rate was 1886.
The reports from the registration
area show the birth Of 1884 pairs OF
twins and 155 sets Of triplets In 1917
In all, 29,253 infants, or a little more
than 2 per cent Of the total number
porn.
Number for Family.
The reports for 1,241,722 Of the
births occurring in 1917 contained In
formation as to number Of child in
order Of birth. OF these reports SS0,-
0a2 were for the first child born to
he mother, 264.O44 for the second
child, 1D1,52S for the third, 144ySu
Tor the fourth, and 06,9S1 for
the nth. In the remaining 210e10
cases, or 17.6 per cent Of the entire
aumber for which information upon
this point was obtained, the total num-
Der Of children borne by the mother
was SIX or more; In 1874 cases It was
ten or more; in 1000. fifteen or more;
h 60 cases, twenty or more.
The total number Of children borne
hy the mothers who gave birth to
lhase 1,24l,722 infants In 1917, In
whose cases data were available a. to
nreFiOus births, was 4.0o8.90e. The
rsnorts for 1.194.621 Of the births Oc-
euTring IN 1917 contained Information
~ % the entire number Of children
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