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Death Rates of Urban and Rural Communities in the United States 



Date igoo igoj igo6 igoy igo8 igog igio igii 



Rural 15.2 14.4 13.7 14.0 13.3 13.0 13.4 12.7 



Urban 18.9 17. i 17.4 17.5 15.9 15.4 15.9 15. i 



Date igi2 igi^ igi4 igi^ igi6 igoi-05 igo6-io 



Rural 12.5 12.7 12.3 12.3 12.9 14. 1 13.4 



Urban 14.7 15.0 14.5 14.2 15.0 17.4 16.3 



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 



^*^^^^^^ rate taken as 100 



Rural 94 



Cities of 10-25,000 95 



" " 25-50,000 105 



" " 20-100,000 no 



" " 100,000 116 



The relatively rapid fall oi urban death rates as compared with 

 the rural is illustrated by the following table: 



