REGISTRATION REPORT, 1907. This report is for the calendar year 1907. The population figures are estimated from the census of 1900, according to the method of the United States Census Bureau. In the following tables the causes of death are arranged according to the Bertillon classification, which has been adopted by all of the registration states of the country. This international classification was used by the United States Bureau of the Census in its last statistical compilation of causes of death. Table 1 is a classification of all deaths with rates per 100,000 population, classified and arranged according to the international system. Table 2 is a classification of deaths from all causes by months, ages, color, nationality and conjugal condition. Table 3 gives deaths from all causes by counties, months, ages, color, nationality and conjugal condition. Table 4 gives deaths from certain diseases by geographical sections and by counties. Table 5 gives death rates for eight years, 1900 to 1908, with averages of cities of 5,000 population and over, compared with rural and state rates. Table A gives births by counties, months, color and nationality of parents. Table B gives births by counties, number of children born to each mother, grouped ages of parents, stillbirths, plurality and illegitimate births. Table C gives, by counties, the marriages by months, color and nationality. Table D gives, by counties, the marriages by grouped ages. BIRTHS. The number of births reported in the State of Indiana during the year 1907 was 49,112, of which number 25,627 were males and 23,485 females. Of the total males, 25,104 were white and 523 colored. Of the total females 22,995 were white and 490 colored. In the preceding year 45,300 births reported; males, 23,469; females, 21,831. October had the largest number of births, 4,544, and June the smallest, 3,203. March had the greatest number of deaths, 3,622, and June the lowest, 2,615. The births (49,112), rate 18.0, exceed the deaths 36,461), rate 13.4 per 1,000 population. The nationality of parents shows as follows: American-born fathers, 44,315; American-born mothers, 45,162. Foreign-born fathers, 3,284; foreign-born mothers, 2,268. Nationality not reported: Fathers, 1,017; mothers, 786. Of the number of children born to each mother, 14,274 were first; 10,626, second; 7,575, third; 5,201, fourth; 3,677, fifth; 2,456, sixth; 1,760, seventh; 1,228, eighth; 751, ninth; 494, tenth; 291, eleventh; 274 were twelfth child and over, and 505 were not reported. As to the ages of parents, 702 fathers and 5,276 mothers were under twenty years of age. In the age period of 50 to 60 there were 949 fathers and 19 mothers; age period 60 to 70, there were 126 fathers, and between 70 to 80 there were fifteen fathers. One thousand two hundred and twenty-three stillbirths, also reported as deaths. The illegitimate births numbered 893, of which 469 were males, and 424 females. The plural births numbered 982, of which 532 were males and 450 females. Total marriages reported, 27,287. This is an increase over the preceding year of 1,062. October had the greatest number of marriages, 2,997, and March had the smallest number, 813. The general statistics on marriages will be found in Tables C and D. The total number of deaths reported in 1907 was 36,461, with a rate of 13.4. In the preceding year, 35,992 deaths, with a rate of 13.58. Males, 19,251; females, 17,210. White males, 18,402; colored, 759; white females, 16,509; colored, 701. American-born, 16,771 males, 15,443 females; foreign-born, 2,146 males, 1,588 females; nationality not reported, 334 males and 179 females. Single males, 8,773; females, 6,673; married males, 7,404; females, 5,884; widowed males, 2,741; females, 4,576; conjugal condition not reported, 303 males and 77 females. The number of deaths, with rates for the years named, appear in the following table: Deaths... Annual rate. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. 1906. 1907. 35,516 36,544 34,069 33,892 37,240 36.502 35,99236,461 14.1 14.5 13.5 13.4 14.0 13.7 13.5 13.4 |