DEATHS IN REGISTRATION AREA. During the year 1911 the total number of deaths in the Registration Area of the United States was 839,284; this comprises only 58.3 per cent. of the population of the country, so that if the same proportion of deaths were found in the districts where there is no registration, the total number of deaths in the United States would be nearly double the figure given above. Of this number, 779,770, or 929.1 for every thousand deaths, were white. Of the deaths among the whites, 569,425 were native born, of which number 306,192 had both parents native born and 193,628 had parents either one or both of which were foreign born. Other deaths among the white population were 199,346 foreign born, and 10,999 unknown. The deaths among the colored population totaling 59,519, or 70.9 for every thousand deaths, were divided as follows: Negro, 56,431; Indian, 1,539; and Chinese and Japanese, 1,724. Of the total number of deaths, 457,308 were males and 381,976 were females. The total number of deaths among children less than one year of age was 149,322; of those from one to five years of age, 60,160; from five to twenty-five, 83,909; from twenty-five to fifty, 184,214; from fifty to seventy-five, 247,008; over seventy-five, 113,375; and of unknown age, 1,296. Out of every thousand deaths, 177.9 occur before the end of the first year of life; 71.7 between the ages of one and five; 100.0 between five and twenty-five; 219.5 between twenty-five and fifty; 324.4 between fifty and Seventy-five; 135.0 above seventy-five; and 1.5 at an unknown age. Out of every one thousand deaths 544.9 are males and 455.1 females. Dividing the deaths in the Registration Area of the United States for the year 1911 according to diseases, we find that 12,451 died of typhoid fever; 1,802 of malaria; smallpox, 130; measles, 5,922; scarlet fever, 5,243; whooping cough, 6,682; diphtheria and croup, 11,174; influenza, 9,244; other epidemic diseases, 6,133; tuberculosis, 94,205; cancer and other malignant tumors, 44,024; diabetes, 8,805; diseases of the nervous system and of the organs of special sense, 81,428; diseases of the circulatory system, 109,830; diseases of the respiratory system, 99,650; diseases of the digestive system, 98,600; non-venereal diseases of the genito-urinary system and annexa, 67,348; from external causes, suicide, 9,622; accidental or undefined, 50,121; homicide, 3,907; and all other causes, 112,913. The rate of death per hundred thousand population of the more important of these diseases is as follows: Typhoid fever, 21.0; tuberculosis, 158.8; cancer and other malignant tumors, 74.3; diseases of the nervous system and of the organs of special sense, 137.4; diseases of the circulatory system, 185.3; diseases of the respiratory system, 168.1; diseases of the digestive system, 166.3; non-venereal diseases of the genito-urinary system, and annexa, 113.6. The heavy increase in life waste from diseases of the heart, blood vessels, kidneys-apoplexy, etc., demands the attention of the American people.. They are over-taxing and neglecting the hardest worked organs of the body, and the penalty is needless disease and premature death for tens of thousands annually. This can only be checked by the adoption of more healthful habits of living and by improvement in hygiene and sanitation. SUICIDE RECORD OF 1912. The suicide record of 100 American cities for the year ending 1912 shows a suicide mortality of 4,397 out of a total population for these cities of 23,336,602, or equivalent to 20.2 per 100,000 of population. With only two exceptions this is the lowest rate attained during any year since 1901, when the rate was only 16.6. The average suicide rate by quinquennial periods for the last two cades eliminating fluctuations by single years, has shown a continuous upward tendency, being 15.7 for the first five years, 16.6 during the next five years, and increasing to 19.1 and 20.2 in the succeeding periods. The highest recorded rate for the 100 cities was for San Francisco, Cal., in which the rate was 44.0 per 100,000 of population, against the general average for all the cities of 20.2. Abstract from article by F. L. Hoffman in "The Spectator," October 2, 1913. MARRIAGES AND DIVORCES: NUMBER AND INCREASE, SPECIFYING [Source: Reports of the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce and Labor.] DIVORCES: Number and CAUSES, SPECIFYIng those GranTED TO HUS- [Source: Reports of the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce and Labor.] Total.. 13, 748 6.2 6,922 101.4 102, 344 100.0 129, 317 100.0 174,414 100.0 223, 401 100.0 121,057 118.3 |