TABLE No. 6.

Deaths at Different Periods, compared with the Number Living at the Same Period, 1890.*

*Excluding still births and premature births. † Census of 1890.

Table 6 exhibits the number of deaths at different age periods compared with the number living at the same period, based upon the census of 1880, with the exception noted in the table. This table shows a death-rate per 1,000 of the population under one year of age, of 186.61 as against 165.14 for the preceding year; under five years of age, 52.79 as against 50.04 for 1889; between twenty and thirty, 7.77 in 1890, and 6.94 in 1889; all others, 19.74 in 1890, and 17.53 in 1889; for all ages the rate was 18.87 in 1890, and 18.46 in 1889.

Persons living
at same ages,
census of 1880.

Death-rate

per

1,000.

TABLE No. 7.

Deaths by Ages and Sex, from 1884 to 1890, inclusive.

Table 7 shows the number of deaths at different age periods by sex, from 1884 to 1890, inclusive. In the year 1890 there were returned 1,146 deaths of children under one year of age, not including still and premature births; 468, between one and five; 138, between five and ten; 299, between ten and twenty; 492, between twenty and thirty; 519, between thirty and forty; 462, between forty and fifty; 640, between fifty and sixty; 821, between sixty and seventy; 1,090, between seventy and eighty; 774, between eighty and ninety; 138, between ninety and one hundred; and five, over one hundred years age; also, 113, with age not stated. Compared with the returns for the previous year, there was an increased mortality in decedents under one year of age, while the increase in the mortality at each age period from twenty years upward is very noticeable.

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Table 8 shows the percentages of deaths, by age periods and sex, to the total mortality from 1884 to 1890, inclusive. Tables 7 and 8 are interesting and instructive inasmuch as they give the number of deaths and the percentage to the total mortality by age periods, for the seven years embraced in the tables. There are no other tables that so emphatically exhibit the large mortality that annually occurs among children under one year of age. It will be seen that nearly one fourth of all the deaths in the State for the year 1890 were of children under five years of age, and the same is true every year. This excessive mortality among the young offers a subject for reflection and study for those who are interested or engaged in efforts to reduce the mortality rate of the State. It is admitted by those who have given the subject any attention that so large a death-rate among children is entirely preventable, and that the means are at the command of the individual and the public to reduce these figures very materially. This view is emphatically corroborated by a detailed exhibit of the causes of death among children.

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TABLE No. 8.

Percentages of Deaths by Ages and Sex to Total Mortality, from 1884 to 1890, inclusive.*

* Excluding those with age and sex not stated, and premature and still births.