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Death Rates of Urban and Rural Communities in the United States 



Date 1900 



Rural 15.2 



Urban 18.9 



Date 1912 



Rural 12.5 



Urban 14.7 



As a rule the larger the city the higher has been the death 

 rate. In the United States, according to the nth census, the 

 death rates of cities of different sizes were as follows: 



Death Rates According to Size of Cities 



Similar relations are shown in the towns of New England. 



Death rate of New England Towns 



_. . Ratios to the New England 



L>1 ' stnct rate taken as 100 



Rural 94 



Cities of 10-25,000 95 



" " 25-50,000 105 



" " 20-100,000 110 



" " 100,000 1 16 



The relatively rapid fall of urban death rates as compared with 

 the rural is illustrated by the following table: 



