AREA AND POPULATION

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inchule California, Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, ]Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Ham[>shire, New Jersey, New Yoik, North Carolina (municipalities of 1,000 population and over in 1900) Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, the District of Columbia, and 43 cities in non- registration states. The estimated population for the registration area in 1910 was 53,843,896, or over one half (583 percent.) of the total estimated population of Continental United States ; and the number of deaths returned for that year was 805,412, or 15.0 per 1,000 of population.

In 1909, 853,290 marriages and 72,062 divorces were recorded in the United States. Marriage and divorce rates, computed on the basis of the 1900 population and the annual averages of marriage and divorce from 1898 to 1902, Avere as follows :

Marriage rate per 10,000, based on total population, 93 ; based on popula- tion over 15 years of age, 141 ; based on unmarried po[»ulation over 15 years of age, 321. Divorce rate per 10,000, based on total pojmlation, 7.3 ; based on married population, 20.0.

The number of marriages and divorces by States Avas as follows :

Geographical Divisions

Marriages, 1906

Divorces,

1906

Geographical Divisions

Marriages, 1906

Divorces,

1906

Continental United States

853,290

72,062

South Atlantic— cont.

District of Columbia Virginia . West Virginia . North Carolina South Carolina Georgia . Florida .

3,833

17,851 11,551 20,085

27,438 9,371

86

1,074

966

380

862 830

New England

57,798

4,022

Maine

New Hampshire Vermont . Massachusetts .

6,574 4,278 3,106 29,654 5,117 9,069

783 473 301 1,540 368 557

Connecticut

East South Central

93.956

8,314

Middle Atlantic .

168,985

5,626

Kentucky Tennessee Alabama . Mississippi

22,087 24,418 25,390 22,061

2,050 2,172 2,162 1,930

New York New Jersey Pennsylvania .

88,979 21,580 58,426

2,069 j

530 3,027

West South Central .

93,499

10,352

East North Central

172,042

19,489

Arkansas Louisiana Oklahoma Texas

20,227 16,751 14,012 42,509

2,428

882

1,869

5,173

Ohio

Indiana . Illinois .

45,365 28,306 53,717 27,335 17,319

4,781 4,048 5,943 3,259 1,458 '

Wisconsin

Mountain .

21,989

3,057

West North Central .

107,891

11,437

Montana. Idaho . Wyoming Colorado . New Mexico . Arizona . Utah Nevada .

2,675 2,193 1,181 7,307 2,667 1,579 3,858 534

491 320 143 1,165 218 214 387 119

Minnesota Iowa

Missouri . North Dakota . South Dakota . Nebraska

15,809 20,135 35,750 4,753 4,131 10,344 16,969

1,066 2,385 3,936 '

320

604 ; 1,186 1,940

\PaciJic . . .i 32,135 4,820

South Atlantic . .\ 104,095

4,945

W-KjViinirtnTi ' Q 1 oo T noi

Delaware . . 2,302 Maryland . . 12,564

51 691}

'Oregon . California

1

5,233 17,720

1,026 1,813

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