Show FIGURES SHOW MORMON CHURCH IN LEAO LEAD birth and marriage rates among the latter day saints are much higher than the average lor for the united states and death abath and divorce rates correspondingly pon low according to statistics made public by president bishop C IV nibley an announcement to bishop nibley from the bureau of census ot of the U S government gives the average birth and death rates per thousand tor for five consecutive years as follows 1915 dirth birth rate death rate 1916 birth rate 25 death rate 14 1917 dirth birth rate death rate 1918 birth rate death rate 1919 dirth birth rate death rate the noticeable increase in the death rate tor for 1918 is duo due to the influenza epidemic the average birth rate for the five ye and the average death rate is the marriage rate in the united states covering a period from rom 1890 to 1916 6 and quoted from four periods 1 covering a lapse of from 6 to 10 years based on a population basis was as follows 1890 91 1900 93 1906 1916 the divorce rate in the same period based on a 1 population basis was in 63 1900 73 1906 84 and 1916 the average birth rate in the L D S church tor for the 1915 1919 period was 37 as against the united states rate of the average death rate in the church for the same period was 9 as against the U S rate of the average marriage rate was on oil the population basis as against the U S rate of the divorce rate in the church on the population tio n basis was 66 as against the U S rate of the figures as sent to the presiding bishops office aroused much interest the church statistics it is held make a favorable showing utah public health journal |