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Show WEEKLY DATA ON MORTALITY' ; & Statistics of Principal Cities Now Is. i sued Regularly by the United States Census Bureau. A weekly circular giving the mortality mortali-ty statistics of the principal cities of the United States Is now Issued regularly regu-larly by the United States census bureau, bu-reau, says the Scientific American. It gives the total number of deaths reported re-ported (stillbirths excluded), the death rate per thousand, number of deaths of infants under one year of age, and the proportion of Infant deaths to total deaths. , The cities for which data are given Include one-fifth the population of the country. Thus the circular Is a fairly accurate Index to the state of the nation's na-tion's health. Its uses are manifold. It will show local health authorities how their home towns stand in comparison com-parison with other towns in respect to mortality and when a town has a bad record the publicity given to the fact , should spur the authorities to seek the Jjpguse and remove It. Insurance companies com-panies will find the reports of Interest The circular Is Issued In Washington every Tuesday, and is distributed free of charge. |