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...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 the heavy influx of immigrants into the United States had not deteriorated the population...
Under the auspices of the Department of Economics Professor W. F. Willcox of Cornell yesterday afternoon gave his first lecture on "Some Results of the United States Census of 1900." His subject was "The Birth Rate and Death Rate of the United States...
...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...
...dean of the college of arts and sciences and professor of political economy and statistics in Cornell University, will give the first of a series of three lectures on the census of 1900 this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in University 23. The lecture will be on "The Birth Rate and Death Rate of the United States," and is intended particularly for advanced students in economics. The other two lectures tomorrow and Friday evenings at 8 o'clock in Harvard 1 are of more general interest, being on "The Population of the United States" and "Some Statistical Aspects...
...SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "The Birth Rate and Death Rate of the United States," Professor W. F. Willcox, of Cornell University. University...