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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...
...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 of whites. From 1890 to 1900 there has been...
...SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "The Birth Rate and Death Rate of the United States," Professor W. F. Willcox, of Cornell University. University...
...dates and subjects of Professor Willcox's lectures on some results of the United States census of 1900 are as follows: "The Birth Rate, and Death, Rate of the United States," Wednesday, March 29, at 7.30 o'clock in University 28; "The Population of the United States," Thursday, March 30, at 8 o'clock in Harvard 1; "Some Statistical Aspects of the Negro Problem," Friday, March 31, at 8 o'clock in Harvard...
Professor Willcox is a graduate of Amherst College, Columbia University Law School, and the Columbia School of Political Science. He has been a member of the faculty of Cornell University since 1891. In 1901-02 he had a leave of absence from Cornell to be statistical expert of the twelfth census. He was employed by the War Department in the same capacity on the censuses of Cuba and Porto Rico...