AND RATE TABLES AND GENERAL TABLES FOR THE DEATH REGISTRATION Page 2 6 19 24 1. [Similar 389325 REPORTS ON BIRTH AND MORTALITY STATISTICS ISSUED BY THE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS BIRTH, STILLBIRTH, AND INFANT MORTALITY STATISTICS (ANNUAL): Part I.-Summary and rate tables and general tables for the birth registration area in continental United States, with supplemental statistics for the Virgin Islands. Part II.-Text and text tables. MORTALITY STATISTICS (ANNUAL): Part I.-Summary and rate tables and general tables for the death registration area in continental United States, with supplemental statistics for Hawaii and the Virgin Islands. Part II-Text and text tables. CONTENTS SUMMARY AND RATE TABLES TABLE I A.-Population, deaths (exclusive of stillbirths), and death rates per 1,000 population, by color, in urban and rural districts: 1927. Estimated population and death rates, by color, for registration area and its main subdivisions, and for urban and rural districts of each registration State. TABLE I B.-Population, total deaths, deaths of residents, and death rates per 1,000 population, in each registration city of 30,000 population or more in 1920: 1927.... TABLE I C.-Total deaths and deaths of residents in each registration city having a population from 10,000 to 30,000 in 1920, and in the rural part of each registration county: 1927. TABLE II.-Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths), and death rates per 100,000 population, from each cause, in the registration area in continental United States: 1926 and 1927... NOTE. In the report on Mortality Statistics, 1922, and in previous annual reports there appeared tables which gave death rates per 100,000 population from important causes in each registration State and in each registration city, and from each cause in urban and rural districts of each State. Although these tables have been omitted from the present report, any of the data desired may be obtained from the manuscript figures in the Bureau of the Census, except for cities with less than 30,000 population in 1920. GENERAL TABLES TABLE 1.-Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths), by months: 1927 Deaths in the registration area and in urban and rural districts of each registration State. [Similar data for cities, which have not been shown since 1922, are retained in manuscript.] TABLE 2.-Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths), by color, and by general and parent nativity of white: 1927.. Page 2 6 19 24 26 Deaths of white, Negroes, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and other colored, in the registration area, and in urban and rural districts of each registration State. [Similar data for cities, which have not been shown since 1922, are retained in manuscript.] TABLE 3.-Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths), by age and color: 1927... 28 Deaths of white and colored, under 1 year of age, 1 to 4 years, and by 5-year age periods, in the registration area, and in urban and rural districts of each registration State. [Similar data for cities, which have not been shown since 1922, are retained in manuscript.] 34 TABLE 4.-Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths), by age, sex, color, and nativity of white: 1927. Deaths of white, Negroes, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and other colored, under 1 year of age, 1 to 4 years, and by 5-year age periods, in the registration area, each registration State, and the total registration States of 1920. TABLE 5.-Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) from important causes, by color: 1927- 52 Deaths from 33 causes, in the registration area, and each registration city, and by color, for urban and rural districts of each registration State. TABLE 6.-Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) from each cause, in urban and rural districts: 1927. TABLE 7.-Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) from each cause, by age, sex, and color, in the registration States (including District of Columbia): 1927_ Causes of death by single years under 5 and by 5-year age periods. TABLE 7 A.-Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) of Negroes, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and other colored, from each cause TABLE 9.-Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) from important causes, by age, in large cities: 1927... Deaths by single years under 5 and by 5 and 10 year age periods, in cities of 100,000 population or more on January 1, 1920. 319 338 TABLE 10.-Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) from important causes, by months, in each registration State: 1927. Deaths in cities of 100,000 population or more on January 1, 1920. SUPPLEMENT 371 HAWAII VIRGIN ISLANDS 376 385 APPENDIX TABLE 1.-Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) from each cause, by age, sex, and color, in the registration States of 1920 (including District of Columbia): 1927___ TABLE 2.-Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths), and crude and adjusted death rates per 100,000 population, from certain causes, by age, sex, and color, in the registration States of 1920 (including District of Columbia): 1927___ 392 418 MORTALITY STATISTICS: 1927 INTRODUCTION This is the twenty-eighth annual report of mortality statistics prepared by the Bureau of the Census; it relates to the calendar year 1927, and is presented in two parts. Part I includes rate and general tables for the death registration area in continental United States, and special tables for Hawaii and the Virgin Islands; Part II presents an analysis of these statistics in text and text tables. The data are procured from transcripts of death certificates received from the registration area, which included the Territory of Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, and, in continental United States, 42 States, the District of Columbia, and 21 cities in nonregistration States. The States are: The total number of deaths returned from this part of continental United States, which included an estimated population of 108,327,000, or 91.3 per cent of the total, was 1,236,949, corresponding to a death rate of 11.4 per 1,000 population-the lowest rate recorded in the annual reports, beginning in 1900. This report was prepared under the direction of Dr. William H. Davis, chief statistician for vital statistics, assisted by John B. Mitchell, supervising special agent, and Clyde D. Williams, expert chief of division. Acknowledgment is made of the efficient service rendered by John O. Spain and Maud E. Linder. |