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Show !oLR DIMINISHING DEATH RATE Washington, D. C, Jan. 28. The ' Cnsus Bureau has recently pub-j pub-j lished some very encouraging figures showing that the death rate is steadily stead-ily falling in the registration area of the United States, a pretty fair test o the whole, as it includes 65 per cent of the population. In 1913 the death rate was 14.1 for each thousand of the estimated population, which is a. decrease of ,13 per cent, or one death in eight from 16.2, the average from 1901 j to 1905. If the same rate had prevailed pre-vailed in 1913 as in the years 1901-1905, 1901-1905, there would have been 1,025, j446 deaths instead of 890,823, an ! excess of 134,623. I The death rate in the rural districts dis-tricts was 12.7 and 15 in the cities. |