The courier-index. (Marianna, Ark.) 1917-current, 1919-07-18
laws Births in ~ States
IA 'Y,'r I,eaths by 74.4
| Per Cent,
lArE 24.6 PER 1000
/ a.oi..ratIon Area Show
=" :. se4 PAIRS Of Twins
.ss Gets Of Tr'p'ets
4 In 1917.

'on ..a United States l,3o3,
o w s born alive In 1877,
ps a birth rate Of z4'o pei
lation. .o,ths In the
GAS 1922, or al per
s,,tbs exceeded the deaths
' asot For every state In
tan area. for practically
~ and for nearly all the
shs births exceeded the
=, most cases by considerable
The mortality rate for
sder one year of age aver
uer 1000 living births.
sso,ur are among the facts
~ nv the census bureaus
|,rrjlation Of birth statistics.
[ta.registration area. estab-
,o,s has grown rapidly. II
n 1917 the six New Eng
Is. Indiana, Kansas. Ken
Iryland, Michigan Washing
pnsiu and the District of Co
4 had an estimated popula-
nOOOO, or about 50 per cent
Hmated total population OF
States in that year.
mparison With 1915
N rate for fine entire birth
Il area fell below that for
two-tenths Of one per LOO
but the death rate was
r.tenths of one per thousand
pl6. Thus the excess OF the
over the death rate for 1917,
|ounted to 1O.5 per 1000, was
greater than the correspond
4 for 1915, 10.1 per 1000.
II fell slightly below that for
per 1000.
birth and death rates prevail
Nv one Of these three years
remain unchanged, and If no
we're to take place to or
area to which they relate, It's
h would increase at the rate
u more than l per cent per
br a little more than 10 per
decade. This would be about
rate-21 per cent-by which
L population of the United
ncreased between 1900 and
total number of births report
RS8, or 24.5 per 1000, were of
fants, and 1854, or 25.S per
ERE of negro infants. The
ties for the two elements of
Baton were 1871 and 22.5 per
|pectively.
(fant mortality rate-that Is,
Der of deaths of infants under
Of age per 1000 born alive
but the characterization area
Ple was 93.S In 1917, as against
pl6 and 100 in 1915. This is
pr to saying that In 1915 and
EVERY ten infants born alive
before reaching the age Of
/, whereas In 1917 the CORE
ratio was a trifie more than
even. Among the twenty states
Res ranged from 67.4 for Min
2 1919 for Maryland: and for
&c population separately the
nd the highest rates were 66.3
Ellington and 1895 for New
Ire.
'nfant mortality rates vary
lor the two sexes and for the
nationalities. The rate for
[ants in 1917, 1887 per 1000
rms was nearly 80 per cent
'han that for female infants,
as only 1913. When the com
Is made on the basis of race
aailty of mother a minimum Of
i'WV births is shown for in
~ mothers born in Denmark,
ana Sweden, and a maximum
Tor Infants with mothers born
=, while for negro children the
1855.
eports from the registration
w the birth OF 1894 pairs of
! 100 sets of triplets in 1917
S'2oS infants, or a little more
per cent of the total number
Number for Family.
.eports for 1,24l,722 of the
in 1917 contained in
= as to number of child in
URN Of these reports $780,
: Tor the first child born to
ner 264,044 for the second
Tor the third, 144.331
Fourth and 95.931 for
IN the remaining 218,S46
TO per cent OF the entire
lor which information upon
was obtained, the total mum.
borne by the mother
: more; in 1914 cases 1t was
o'e In 1000, fifteen or more
YES, twenty or more.
lfHt nst..k
49, number of children borne
o "o' I who gave birth ia
W. - Infants in 1917, in
'9 NJ. uata were available as to
TO- o'r , was 4,O93,9Os. The
Il ,o, ,of'o@l of the births oc-
- i9i' contained Information
! ! entlre number Of children
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