Show DEA TH I 1 S STA TA X A TICS FOR 19 1906 0 6 white scourge still claims a large percentage of victims washington death statistics for 1906 in 15 states made public by the census bureau show that by for far the greatest scourge of the country is tuberculosis bercu losis with an average of deaths per of population however this Is a decrease of 10 since 1905 colorado and california were the states with the highest mortality records from the white plague with south dakota and michigan the cwb lowest the death rate for suicide apparently showed a large increase from 1902 to 1905 but 1906 statistics exhibit a marked decrease being of this number were males the entire number of violent deaths was 49 5 52 about 1209 per railway accidents were responsible for lives and persons were killed in automobile accidents tho the entire death rate of the states and cities in which statistics were collected was per 1000 of population the annual average rate during the same period for england and wales was 16 for scotland ireland germany and france comparing these figures with previous records it appears that the world has now reached an era of low mortality several foreign countries formerly had as high a death rate as 25 per pee 1000 the derath rate among was wore moro tan CO per cent hi higier Iier than that tor for whites in the stion section examined being per 1000 |