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states who have gone there for the beneficial effects of chmate. South 

 Dakota, New Hampshire, and to a less extent Michigan, are largely 

 rural communities, hence their comparatively sUght mortality from 

 consumption, which is especially a disease of the poor and the over- 

 crowded. 



TABLE I 



Annual Death Rate from Tuberculosis (All Forms) per 100,000 Living 



Persons 



Area Death Rate 



South Dakota* (1908) 102 



Michigan* (1908) 102 



New Hampshire* (1908) 129 



Rural districts of registration! states, U.S. (1908) 136 



United States registration! area (1908) 174 



England and Wales (1904) 178 



Registration! cities of United States (1908) 197 



New York City (1907) 242 



California* (1908) 271 



Colorado* (1908) 301 



Honolulu,* T.H. (1908) 39° 



• Figures for the various states are taken from Bulletin 104, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C., 

 1909. For Honolulu, the data were obtained from the publications of the Department of Health of Hawaii, 



t The registration area of the United States includes certain cities and states, the vital statistics of which 

 are considered sufficiently accurate to be accepted by the United States Bureau of the Census. It is custom- 

 ary to disregard altogether the statistics from other parts of the United States. 



TABLE II 



Death Rate from Pulmonary Tuberculosis (Consumption, Phthisis) in 

 Various Countries per 100,000 Living Persons 



Country Death Rate 



Tasmania 63 



Victoria, Australia 112 



Italy 114 



Great Britain and Ireland 134 



Japan 146 



United States (registration area) 170 



Germany 185 



Norway 196 



Austria 334 



