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Show INCREASE IN DIVORCE CENSUS BUREAU SHOWS NEARLY A MILLION IN TWENTY YEARS. Gaining About Three Times as Fast as Population Desertion and Drink Leading Causes Ralsa In Marriage Rate, Washington. Divorce and marriage statistics for 20 years, from 18S7 to 1900 Inclusive, are embodied In a compilation com-pilation Just completod by tho United States census bureau, Tho report Is tho second ot Its kind Issued under federal authority, and embodies the results of Its predecessor, predeces-sor, beside presenting now and moro recent data, Tho total numhor of marriages recorded re-corded during tho 20 years from J887 to 100C Incluslvo was lE.832.0ti. Tho number annually reported Increased from 483,009 In tho year 1887 to 853,-290 853,-290 In the year 1900. The marrlago rate In tho United Btntes In the year 1900 was 93 per 10,-000 10,-000 population. The total number of dlvorcos reported re-ported for tho 20 years, 1887 to 1900, Inclusive, was 945,025, For tho cnrllor Investigation, covering tho 20 years, 1807 to 1880, Inclusive, tho number reported re-ported was 32K.710, or hardly moro than one-third of tho number rccordod in tho second 20 years, At tho beginning begin-ning of tho 40-ycnr period,' covered by tho two Investigations, divorces oc curred at tho rate of 10,000 n year; ut tho end pt that period tho annual number num-ber was about 60,000, An Increase of 30 per cent. In population popu-lation between tho years 1870 to 1880 wos accompanied by an Incrcaso of 79 per cent. In tho number of divorces granted. In tho next decade, 1880 to 1B00, tho population Increased 26 per ront. and divorces 70 per cent., and In tho following docado, 1890 to 1900, an Increase of 21 per cent. In population was nccompanled by an Incrcaso of CO JO); X?ttiJLlbi')!i!nberof jMvorcos In tho six years from lopu to ltiuo, population, as estimated, ,Jucf?nsocl 10.0 per cent, nnd, dlvorcos 29.3 per cent. It thus appears that at tho end of the 40-year period divorces wero Increasing In-creasing about threo times as fast as population, while In the first decade (1870 to 1SS0) they Increased only about two and two-thirds as fast. Tho divorce rata per 100,000 population popula-tion Increased from 29 In 1870 to' 83 In 1905, In tho former year Uioro was one divorce for every 3,44 i persons and In the lutter year ono for evory 1,218. Slnco It Is only married, people who can becomo divorced, a moro significant sig-nificant divorce rate Is that, which Is basod not upbn total population but upon tho total marrlod population. Tho rote por 100,000 married population popula-tion was 81 In tho year 1870 and 200 in tho year 1900. ThU comparison Indicates Indi-cates that dlvorco Is at the present two nnd one-half times as common, compared with married population, as It was 40 years .ago. A dlvorrd rate of 200 per 100.000 married population Is equivalent to two per 1,000 marrlod population. Assuming that 1,000 married pooplo reprosont 500 married couplos. It follows that In each year, four married couples out of overy . 1,000 securo a dlvorco. Divorce rates nppear to be much higher In the United States than In any of the foreign countries for which statistics rotating to this subject havu been obtained. : Tho most commou Single ground for divorce Is desertion. This accounts for 38.9 por cent, of all divorces (period 1887 to 1900); 49.4 p.4- cont, or almost ono half, of those granted to tho husband, and 33.5 por cunt., or ono-thlrdi of thoso granted to tho wlfu. Drunkenness was .the ground for dlvorco In 6,3 por cont, of tho cases In which tho wlfo brought suit, nnd lu 1.1 per cent, of tho cases In which tho suit was brought by tho husband. Of tho dlvprced couplos known to hnvo been married In tho Unltod Slates, 88.6 por cent, wero married In the sumo stale In which they wore divorced, and 21.6 per cent. In other states. |