338 THE TREND OF THE RACE 
Death Rates of the City and State of New York 
Date Deaths in City Rate Rate per Rest of State 
1898-1900..... 67,516 20.15 15.25 
IQOI-I909..... 71,084 18.6 15.3 
I906-I19I0..... 75,868 16.8 15.8 
IQII-IQI5..... 74,668 14.4 15.6 
TOU4 Sis ce eaten 74,803 14.0 I5.4 
TOUS ss 4 nesesar 76,193 13.9 15.2 
TOIOs ces wees 77,800 13.9 I5.7 
Part of this decline in New York City, says the Report of the 
New York Department of Health for 1919, “should be attributed 
to the migration from other communities and immigration from 
foreign countries, of large numbers of young adults who increased 
the population, but being in the healthiest age of life, contributed 
a smaller number of deaths than their proportion to the total 
population. When corrections are made for age composition, 
however, the advantage turns in favor of the country.” 
Crude and Standardized Death Rates in New York State and City 
Crude Death Rate for 1911 Standardized Rate 
State of N. Y.............. 15.6 15.8 
City ot Ne Vise serait ange 15.3 17.3 
Rest of State.............. 16 14.1 
And in 1915, according to the report quoted, “the essentially 
greater healthfulness of the smaller communities and the rural 
districts of the state compared with the metropolis—hitherto 
obscured by the difference in the age make-up of their population 
—stands out in a standardized rate of mortality for 1915 for the 
state outside of New York City of 13.4 still two points, or 13 per 
cent below that of the metropolis.” 
In Europe urban growth and migration have been studied more 
