Word: censuses
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...University Library has lately received from the Russian Government, through the hands of the Hon. G. von L. Meyer '79, American Ambassador to Russia, the publications of the first general census of Russia. The census was taken in 1897. The statistics of the railways of Russia for 1904 were included in the gift...
...there is enough that is yet undone. The last census of the tenements in New York showed that there were in them yet 350,000 and over of the dark rooms the Board of Health deemed fatal in 1866. Since then we have found the bacillus of tuberculosis and the fight with the White Plague has been taken up all over the land. In New York City we have every year 8000 deaths from tuberculosis and there are always 20,000 persons dying from the scourge. Is it any wonder, when laboratory experiments have shown that, whereas...
...Strike Commission by President Roosevelt. His knowledge of the subject is, therefore, intimate and exact. He was University lecturer on wage statistics from 1900 to 1901, and has been a member of the Massachusetts Senate, and chief of the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor. He completed the eleventh United States census, and was in 1895 appointed United States Commissioner of Labor, but resigned the position in 1902 to become president of Clark College. He is well known for the authoritative writings in the field of social economics...
European governments, Professor Willcox said, have long realized the importance of vital statistics, which the United States did not seriously consider until the last census. On the records then obtained, however incomplete, we may base a comparison of the populations of Europe and the United States. Europe, which comprises only one-fifteenth of the total land area of the world, supports one-fourth of its population. At present the rate of increase of population in the United States is nearly twice as large as that of Europe, but the two are gradually approximating. He then went on to show that...
...very difficult, he said, to obtain accurate statistics of the birth and death rates throughout the United States. The census results, which furnish the only means of ascertaining the vital statistics of the rural population, are inaccurate. According to the census statistics, the annual death rate in the United States is 16.3 per cent, of the total population. Professor Willcox, however, after a careful calculation of possible errors, places the death rate at 19.56 per cent, of the population. It is interesting to observe that the death rate of negroes is in some states 60 per cent, higher than that...