Annual Report Upon the Births, Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths in the State of Maine for the Year Ending Dec. 31, ..., Volume 24

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Department of Vital Statistics, 1916 - Maine
 

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Page 135 - Again this year it occupies second place. Pulmonary tuberculosis was the next most prominent cause until 1898 when it was reduced to the third place in the list; in 1899 and 1900 it occupied the fourth place; in 1901, the third place; in 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910...
Page 134 - State as possible, and that the certificates should be uniform and accurate. Transcripts During the year the Department was called upon to furnish 815 certified copies of certificates of births, deaths and marriages, to be used for judicial and administrative purposes. Age and Mortality The following shows the number of deaths which occurred within each age-period, and the relation which the percentage in each period bears to the whole number of deaths. Per cent. Under 1 year of age 28,011...
Page 170 - Of the children dying from this cause, 52 per cent, were less than six months old, and another 31 per cent, were less than i year of age, making 83 per cent, of deaths within the first year of age. Ages : Under three months, 89 ; 3-6 months, 100 ; 6-9 months, 71; 9-12 months, 41; 12-18 months, 36; 18 months to 2 years, 27. In the classification of deaths from diarrheal diseases, only the deaths among children under 2 years of age are included under "infantile diarrhea.
Page 130 - A glance at the following tabulation will show that the death-rate, based upon the estimated population of all but the census year, 1910, has, upon the whole, lessened considerably. In the year for which this report is made, the death-rate is lower than for the preceding year, namely, 14.53.
Page 148 - Malarial Diseases. — About every year a few deaths have been reported to the department as having been caused by malaria, or malarial disease. Almost without exception when there was good reason to believe that the deaths had malarial cause, the infection was contracted outside the State. For the year 1910, no deaths were reported as having been caused by malaria, for 1911 only 3, for 1912, 2; for 1913, 4; for 1914, 5; and for Tuberculosis.
Page 84 - June, while the smallest number in any one month. 327. occurred in March. See Table No. 22. Ages of the Married. — The largest number, both of grooms and brides, was between 20 and 25 years of age. While still under 15 years of age, 14 brides were married : in the age-period 15-20 years there were 212 grooms and 1.640 brides; in the period 20-25 years, 2.249 men an...
Page 146 - The following table shows the number of deaths from typhoid fever in each thousand deaths during 1891 and the six foregoing years in the various sanitary districts of the State.
Page 167 - The following is a tabular statement of the deaths from pneumonia by counties, months, and age-groups for the twentythree years 1893 to 1915.

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