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Show BEASE I I WASHINGTON, Nov. 4. (By the Associated Pjress).. There were lO.lGs deaths from accidents caused by au- j tomoblles and other motor vehicles ox- ! pcludlng motorcycles, during 1021 In , itho death registration area of the! LInlted States comprising 3 4 states land containing 82 per cent of the country's population, the census bu- I reau announced. That was an in-j crease of 1.06T. over 1920. Tho death rate, per 100. nuO population was 11.5 i compared with 10.4 in 1920. Call-; fornia led all stales In tho death rate, while among the cities of 100,000 or! more population Los Angeles led. There was about 2H per cent increase in-crease in tho automobile deaths from 1917 to 1921, while the actual num- I ber of deaths in 27, states for which data is avallabfe Increased 41 2 per , cent Deaths In the registration area by years were announced as follows: 1917. 6.724; 1918. 7.T.23; 1919. 7.-9C8; 7.-9C8; 1920, 9,103 and 1321, 10.16S. Tho rate per 100.000 In tho cities was 15 8 last year, an increase of 0 8 over 1920. Total deaths in the cities numbered 4,415 last year, an increase of 290 over 192u By years the deaths in these cities were as follows: fol-lows: 1917, 3.207; 1918, 3,609; 1919. 3,808; 1920, 4110 and 1921. 4.415. Of the 34 states in the registration ' urea, California had the highest rato with 24.4 per 100,000; Connecticut was, second with IS. 5 and New York third With lf. 4 Mississippi has tho small- I est rate, 2 6, while South Cirollna ami I Kentucky both tho next smallest with j 4.3. The largest Increase In the rate per 1 100,000 for tho states was in Califor- I nia with 3.3 more than in 1920, while New Hampshire showed the biggest. idecrease In the rate .with 2.8. Twen- H !ty-six ot the states showed Increases iwlilH seven decreases and one, Fennsyl- H vania, showed no change. H New York state registered the larg- est number of deaths with 1,632. an increase of 222 over 1920, while Del- aware had the smallest number with 17, a decrease of 52. H I T 1 1 1 RATE HIGHER. The r ite per 100,000 and tho num- iijjjj ber Increase or decrease 'n that rate. J H compared with 1920. shows: ' H ..:.:'.. m.i J I . i n ! 3.3: Colo- h . rado. 12.6. increase 0.2; Montana, 8.3. ln r i 11 2; La. 7 9, decrease 0 1: Utah. 11.5. incrcaso 0.2, and Washington 14.5, increase 1.0. S In the 66 cities, 40 showed increases in the rate while the remaining 26 showed decreases. Los Angeles had t;.-e hl;;l-."t r.-i. with 27 1 per 100.000, an increase of. 3 0 per 100,000 over H 1920. The smallest rato was reported by New Bedford, Mass., with 7.2, a H decrease of 1.8 from 1920. H Albany shewed the largest increase In Its rate over 1920 with 15 5 and Houston was second with 11.6. Mem- phis had the largest decrease, 11.2. |