Annual Report of the Secretary of State on the Registration of Births and Deaths, Marriages and Divorces in Michigan: For the Year ..., Volume 45, Part 1911

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Page 13 - ... upon the increase, and upon the sex and age distribution of the population. Population, marriage, birth and death statistics are, indeed, so interdependent, that no one of these branches of vital statistics can be efficiently handled without a full acquaintance with the main principles and bearings of them all. Birth statistics, including those of illegitimacy, moreover, possess a social interest apart from their more purely statistical value arising from the relation they bear to population....
Page 13 - Birth statistics are important mainly on account of the influence of the birth rate upon the increase, and upon the sex and age distribution of the population. Population, marriage, birth and death statistics are, indeed, so interdependent, that no one of these branches of vital statistics can be efficiently handled without a full acquaintance with the main principles and bearings of them all. Birth statistics, including those of illegitimacy, moreover, possess a social interest apart from their...
Page 21 - Per cent of deaths at each age to total at all ages. Per cent of deaths of each sex to total of both sexes. Excess.
Page 13 - The distribution of births by months and quarters for the year is shown in Table 8, the rates being distributed through the months very evenly. The maximum monthly rate, 24.4.
Page 65 - ... per cent, were granted upon application of the wife. By referring to the "Summary" table, appearing among the primary tables relating to divorces, it will be noted that 82 divorce applications were refused; 411 withdrawn or otherwise disposed of; and 610 were contested.
Page 26 - ... have attained. Accurate vital statistics are considered absolutely essential instruments of modern sanitary progress, and no class of information collected under this head is of such paramount importance as the knowledge of the mortality from individual diseases and groups of diseases. A tabular exhibition of the deaths and death rates from each cause of death in Michigan for the year...
Page 18 - The maximum monthly rate, 16.0, was in the month of March and the month of least mortality was the month of June, with a rate of 11.4 per 1,000 estimated population.
Page 26 - Examination of the deaths recorded in Table 20 will show that many of the causes are quite insignificant as regards number, and- that very little sacrifice of statistical completeness would be made by their entire omission or rather inclusion under some more general title. It will also...
Page 154 - Other diseases of the stomach Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years) . . Diarrhea and enteritis (over 2 years...
Page 26 - ... of death because, without a knowledge of the prevalence of different diseases, intelligent efforts cannot be made for their restriction and prevention on the part of sanitary officers; or, if such efforts are made, it cannot be definitely known what measures of success or failure 1hey have attained.

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