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per 1000 deaths from all causes). The greatest mor- 

 tality occurs in children under five years of age (388.6 

 out of 1000 deaths from this disease). 



The total number of deaths reported as due to 

 pneumonia during the census year 1900 was 105,971, 

 the proportion in 1000 deaths from all causes being 

 1 06. i. This is an increase over the ratio shown 

 by the preceding census (90.6). 



The State of New York gave the highest rate 

 (228.4) an d Michigan the lowest (109.3). The rate 

 was considerably higher in cities than in the rural 

 districts, and the census of 1900 shows an increase in 

 the cities and a diminished rate in the country over 

 the rates of 1890. The death-rate among the col- 

 oured population (349 per 1000 deaths) was consider- 

 ably greater than among whites (184.8). It was 

 also larger for foreign-born whites than for native 

 whites. The death-rate from pneumonia per 100,000 

 of the population was 190 in 1900 and 186.9 in 1890. 

 These figures show that pneumonia ranks with tuber- 

 culosis as a cause of mortality in the United States 

 and that while the number of deaths from the last- 

 mentioned disease is diminishing there has been 

 a decided increase in the number of deaths from 

 pneumonia during the past ten years. 



The recent statistics of the city of Chicago show 

 a notable increase in the number of deaths from this 



