INCREASES AND DECREASES IN DEATH RATE BY AGE PERIODS
MASS. & N.J. 1880–1910
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ENGLAND & WALES IN BROKEN LINE
This chart exhibits the trend of the death rate from all causes, by age periods. The decreases are below the center line and the increases above it.
It will be noted that the American decreases in the younger ages were not as great as in England and Wales, that they changed to increases about age 45 and continued to increase in each age group thereafter, while in England and Wales the decline occurred at all ages.
Note.—Massachusetts and New Jersey are used as a basis because they were the only States in 1880 where sufficiently reliable comparative statistics could be had. These records were accepted by the national government, and these States really constituted the registration area in that year. There were also fifteen cities outside these States where comparisons were possible.
DEATH RATE REGISTRATION AREA
(PER 10,000 LIVING)
ORGANIC DISEASES
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ENGLAND & WALES DOTTED LINES
This chart shows that in the United States registration area, the mortality from diseases of the heart, blood vessels and kidneys increased 41 per cent. during the period 1890–1910, while in England and Wales (shown by the dotted lines) during the same period there was a decrease in the mortality from these maladies.