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Published: 2013-09
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1884 edition. Excerpt: ... the Years 187, 1876,1877,1878,1879, and 1880, the months arranged in order by Number of Deaths, those having the Greatest Number first. Table II. shows the order of mortality for 1880 by months, those having the greatest number first. With the exceptions of the years 1878 and 1879, the months of August and September are the first two months in the table for each of the years 1808-1880. Six months of the year show more than the average number of deaths, while in 1879 only five mouths have more than the average. The deaths of males exceeded the deaths of females in 1880 by 1,235. As shown by Table III. there were 8,645 deaths of males returned, and 7,410 deaths of females, the proportion being 117 males to 100 females. An excess of deaths of males occurs in each month of the year. According to the United States census of 1880, the excess of males over females in Michigan was 87,773; there being 854,618 males, and 769,422 females represented by the returns of deaths. Measuring the mortality of each sex by the proportion of deaths to the number of living, it is seen that the death-rate in 1880 among males was 10 per one thousand, and among the females 9.62 per one thousand, inhabitants. It will thus be seen that there is little difference in the death-rate of the two sexes. TABLE III.--Number and Per Cent, of Deaths of Males and of Females in Michigan in 1880, from all Causes, as Returned, by Months. (Unknown sex excluded.) Exhibit A contains data concerning the proportion of deaths in each month of the year 18S0 and the per cent, of the sexes, when the months are equalized to 30.44 each, making them all of equal length. The largest proportion of deatlie is shown for the month of August, and the smallest for the month of January....
