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INFANT MORTALITY RATE BY MONTHS: NEW YORK STATE, NEW YORK CITY AND STATE OUTSIDE NEW YORK CITY: 1913–

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Factors in infant mortality in the State (exclusive of New York City.) It is instructive to consider the various causes of death under one year of age. The following table shows, for the State outside of New York City, the number of male and female deaths from the chief causes under one year of age stated as ratios to male and female births, respectively.

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In each of these three years, the male rate for all causes has been about 20 above the rate for females. One-half of this excess is charged to those causes existing, or produced, at birth. During these years, the greatest reduction for any specified cause was in the rate for diarrhea and enteritis.

Marriages

Marriages in New York State in 1917 numbered 104,800, or 20.0 persons marrying per 1,000 total population at all ages. This rate is one of the highest recorded in any year since registration began. The rates for 1916 and 1915 were 18.9 and 18.0, respectively. By five year periods, the movement of the marriage rate has been as follows:

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Refined marriage rate. The marriage rates just presented are ratios of persons marrying per 1,000 total population. If all persons under 15 years of age and all married persons are eliminated from the denominator in this ratio, there result refined marriage rates per 1,000 population among whom marriage is possible, i. e., single, widowed, and divorced persons 15 years old and over.

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* (a) Persons marrying per 1,000 marriageable persons.
(b) Males marrying per 1,000 marriageable males.
(c) Females marrying per 1,000 marriageable females.

Persons 15 years of age or over whose conjugal status was returned as apportioned pro rata among the four conjugal groups.

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MOVEMENT OF MORTALITY BY IMPORTANT AGES AND FROM THE LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH IN NEW YORK STATE: 1917 COMPARED WITH 1916, AND WITH THE AVERAGE FOR THE QUINQUENNIUM 1911-1915

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* Total births and deaths per 1,000 population; deaths under 1 year per 1,000 living births (infant mortality rate); death rates for other ages and by causes per 100,000 total population

† International List of Causes of Death

STATISTICAL TABLES

PRESENTING AND ANALYZING THE RESULTS OF REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES IN THE STATE OF NEW York AND ITS SUBDIVISIONS DURING THE YEAR 1917, WITH COMPARATIVE DATA FOR PREVIOUS YEARS*

* Prior to 1914 the original certificates of births and deaths were not filed with the State Department of Health from the cities of New York, Albany, Buffalo and Yonkers, the data for those cities included in the reports of the State Department being based upon the compilations prepared monthly by the respective local registrars of these cities.

Beginning January 1, 1914, the State Department of Health has been receiving the original certificates of births and deaths from all cities, towns and villages in the State, excepting only New York City. Unless otherwise indicated, therefore, the compilations presented in the monthly bulletins and annual reports of the Department since 1914 are based upon the data given on the original certificates, except for New York City, the figures for which are supplied monthly by the Registrar of Records of the New York City Department of Health.

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HISTORICAL RETROSPECT

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1 Annual number of births, deaths, and marriages in the State of New York, with rates per 1,000 estimated population: 1885-1917..

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2 Annual number of deaths in New York City and the rest of New York State with death rates per 1,000 estimated population: 1898-1917..

392

3 Deaths in the entire State, New York City, and rest of State by sex, color, marital condition and general nativity: 1917.

392

4 Number and percentage of deaths at each age period in the entire State, New York City and rest of the State: 1917.

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5 Number of deaths in the State (exclusive of New York City) by age period, sex, color, general nativity, and marital condition: 1917.

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6 Number of births, stillbirths, and deaths, with birth, death and infant mortality rates by months; deaths by broad age periods, and important causes by months; in entire State, New York City, and rest of the State: 1917..... 397

GENERAL TABLES OF BIRTHS AND INFANT MORTALITY

7 Total births in the State (exclusive of New York City): showing sex, attendant at birth, age of mother, order of birth, legitimacy, and plural births, by color, nativity of mother and country of birth of white foreign-born mothers: 1917..

404

8 Number of births each month in the entire State, New York City and rest of State by sex and color; also number of stillbirths by months: 1917........ 408

9 Movement of infant and childhood mortality in the State of New York; showing annual number of births registered, deaths at all ages, deaths of infants under one year of age, deaths under 5 years, infant mortality rate and percentage of all deaths occurring under 1 year and under 5 years of age: 1885-1917.. 409

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10 Movement of infant and childhood mortality in New York City and rest of New York State, showing annual number of births registered, birth rates, deaths at all ages, deaths under one year of age and under 5 years, and infant mortality rate: 1905-1917....

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