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 MORTALITY STATISTICS

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Deaths in each class, and proportion per xooo

Registration area

Registration states

Registration cities in other states

Total

Cities

Rural

Deaths, all classes

71,346

2,799 4,802 5,566 1,342

1,871 17,278

22,493 15,195

39-23

67-31 78.01 1 8.8 1

26.22 242.17

315.26 212.98

48,306

1,835 3,177 3,565 796

1,204 10,586

15,138 12,005

37-99 65.77 73.80 16.48

24.92 210.14

313.38 248.52

32,071

1,292 2,684

2,873 647

1,054 7,824

11,618 4,079

40.29 83-69 89.58 20.17

32.86 243.96

362.26 127.19

16,235

543 493 692 149

150 2,762

3,520 7,926

33-45 30.37 42.62 9.18

9.24 170.13

216.82 488.20

23,040

964 1,625 2,001 546

66 7 6,692

7,355

3, 1 00

41.83

70.53 86.85 23.70

28.95 290.45

.;i9--.> 138.45

fessiona) . ..

Clerical and official.. ..

Personal service, police, and

Laboring and servant

Manufacturing and mechan- ical industries..

Agriculture, transportation, and other outdoor.

Proportion in each class per

IOOO

Professional

Clerical and official

Mercantile and trading

Personal service, police, and

Laboring and servant

Manufacturing and mechan- ical industries.

Agriculture, transportation, and other outdoor

variations in the gross death rates of the different classes arc due to differences in the age distribution of the population engaged, as well as in the varying conditions under which the occupations are pursued.

The importance of taking into consideration the age distri- bution of the population contributing the deaths in comparing tlu death rates of persons engaged in different occupations will be seen from the following table which shows, for the rcgistra tion states, the number of males reported as.cngaged in each class of occupations, in the aggregate, and in each of four age groups ; tin- number of deaths among the same during the census year, and the percentage of the population and deaths in each age group.