REGISTRATION REPORT, 1906.

This report is for the calendar year 1906. 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 2 A is a recapitulation of the classified deaths by months, ages, color, nationality and conjugal condition.

Table 3 gives death 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 from certain important causes, by counties in geographical sections.

Table 6, annual death rates for seven years, 1900 to 1907, 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, still births, 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 1906 was 45,300, of which number 23,469 were males and 21,831 females. Of the total males, 23,013 were white and 456 col28-Bd. of Health.

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ored. Of the total females, 21,418 were white and 413 colored. In the preceding year 44,114 births reported; males, 22,281; females, 21,333. October had the largest number of births, 4,263, and June the smallest, 3,255. September had the greatest number of deaths, 3,146, and June the lowest, 2,429. The births (45,300) rate 17.1, exceed the deaths (35,992); rate 13.5 per 1,000 population.

The nationality of parents shows as follows: American-born fathers, 40,166; American-born mothers, 40,919. Foreign-born fathers, 2,901; foreign-born mothers, 2,360; Nationality not reported, fathers, 1,798; mothers, 1,586.

Of the number of children born to each mother, 13,210 were first; 9,779, second; 7,059, third; 4,841, fourth; 3,333, fifth; 2,352, sixth; 1,627, seventh; 1,128, eighth; 685, ninth; 433, tenth; 254, eleventh; 306 were twelfth child and over, and 293 were not reported.

As to the ages of parents, 648 fathers and 4,795 mothers were under twenty years of age. In the age period of 50 to 60 there were 928 fathers and 23 mothers; age period 60 to 70, there were 111 fathers, and between 70 and 80 there were eleven fathers.

One thousand one hundred and three still births, also reported as deaths. The illegitimate births numbered 806, of which 429 were males, and 377 females. The plural births numbered 862, of which 455 were males, and 407 females. There were four sets of triplets in this number of pluralities.

MARRIAGES.

The total marriages reported, 26,225. This is an increase over the preceding year of 615. October had the greatest number of marriages, 2,762, and May had the smallest number, 1,675. The general statistics on marriages will be found in Tables C and D.

DEATHS.

The total number of deaths reported in 1906 was 35,992, with a rate of 13.58. In the preceding year 36,502 deaths, with a rate of 13.78. Males, 19,009; females, 16,983. White males, 18,247; colored, 762; white females, 16,317; colored, 666. American-born, 16,715 males, 15,402 females; foreign-born, 1,992 males, 1,446 females; nationality not reported, 302 males and 135 females. Single males, 9,220; females, 6,979; married males, 6,938; females, 5,781; widowed males, 2,525; females, 4,129; conjugal condition not reported, 326 males and 94 females.

The number of deaths, with rates for the years named, appear in the following table:

Of the total number of deaths, 8,004, or 22.2 per cent. of the whole number, occurred in the first year of life. This is almost one-fourth of the total.

Two thousand four hundred and sixty-two deaths occurred in the age period of 1 to 5, making the total loss of children under 5 years of age 10,466, or 29.0 per cent. of the total deaths. This is 23.1 per cent. of the total births reported. In the age period of 5 to 20, there were 2,585 deaths, or 7.1 per cent. of the total number. The total loss under 21 years of age is 13,051, or 36.2 per cent. of the total deaths. In the age period of 20 to 50, practically the prime of life, there were 7,942 deaths, or 22.0 per cent. of the total deaths. There were 360 deaths of persons over 90 years of age, a decrease of 25 from 1905.

The following table, giving deaths by months, shows March with the greatest number of deaths, with January, April, August and September having about the same. June had the lowest number of deaths, as was the case in 1905.

Jan. Feb. Mch. April May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Déc.

March and April had the most tuberculosis deaths; March had most pneumonia; August and September were highest with diarrhœal diseases, and October had the greatest number of typhoid deaths.

DEATH

PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF DEATH FOR
FOR LAST SEVEN

YEARS, WITH AVERAGE.

The following table gives the principal causes of death in their numerical order, for the past seven years, and also the yearly average for each cause, and Chart No. 1 gives a graphic representation of the principal causes for 1906:

PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF DEATH IN INDIANA FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS WITH AVERAGE.