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wholly to this desirable result. During the calendar year of 

 1913, 890,848 deaths occurred in the registration area of the 

 United States, of which 54.9 per cent were males and 45.1 

 per cent were females. 



For the purpose of distinguishing between urban and rural 

 populations the data of the census include all cities of 10,000 

 and over in one classification as urban, and all towns under 

 10,000 of population are included in the rural estimates. The 

 figures, therefore, which I am about to give do not relate ex- 

 clusively to life on the farm, but to life on the farm and in 

 towns of less than 10,000 population. I do not know of any 

 data accessible which will give the comparative death rates 

 of persons living exclusively on farms and those living in 

 villages, towns and cities. For the four years including 1910 

 and 1913 the total death rate is as follows: —- 



• Exclusive of stillbirths. 



* Includes District of Columbia. 



It will be seen from this table that uniformly the death rate 

 for the rural population is smaller than for the registration 

 as a whole, and especially the registration in cities. Illustrating 

 this by the data of 1913 we find that the death rate for the 

 total registration area was 14.1 per thousand. The death rate 

 in all the registration States, including the District of Columbia, 

 was 13.9 per thousand. The death rate for cities in registration 

 States was 15 per thousand. The death rate in the rural part 



