Annual  Rates  per  cent.  ")
(Deaths  to    100  persons  j-

living,)  .  .  .)
Persons  living  to  one  an-  >

nual  death,  .         .        .  \

1-8433
54

1-9557
51

1-8738
51

1-7309

58

1-7430

57

1-8156
55

As  we  have  now  the  Preliminary  Report  on  the  Eighth  Census
of  the  United  States,  1860,  we  are  able  to  compare  this  rate  with
those  of  all  the  other  States  and  Territories.  Fortunately,  this
census  was  taken  while  all  the  wide  land  was  enjoying  a  long  and
unbroken  period  of  unexampled  progress,  a  condition  which  we
will  not  say  may  never  exist  again,  but  which  certainly  cannot
during  the  next  decade,  such  will  have  been  the  disturbing  influ-


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TWENTIETH  REGISTRATION  REPORT.
[1861.
ences  from  the  war,  and  the  consequent  interference  with  immi-
gration also.  It  will  be  well  to  place  on  the  pages  of  this  Report,
so  that  it  may  be  extensively  accessible  for  future  reference,  the
whole  table  as  given  by  the  Superintendent : —

Deaths  in  the  United  States  for  the  Year  ending  June  1,  1860.
States  and  Territories.
Population.
Deaths,

Population  to

Deaths  per  ct.
Deaths  per  ct.
I860.
one  Death.
18GO.
1850.
Alabama,

964,201

12,759

74

1-34

1-20

Arkansas,

435,450

8,855

48

2-06

146

California,.
379,994

3,704

101

0-99

1-00

Connecticut,

460,147

6,138

74

1-35

1-59

Delaware,.
112,216

1,246

89

1-13

1-34

Florida,

140,425

1,764

78

1-28

1-08

Georgia,

1,057,286

12,816

81

1-23

141

Illinois,

1,711,951

19,299

87

1-14

1-38

Indiana,

1,350,428

15,325

87

145

1-32

Iowa,.
674,948

7,259

92

1-09

1-08

Kansas,

107,206

1,443

73

1-37

-

Kentucky,.
1,155,684

16,466

69

1-45

1-56

Louisiana,.
708,002

12,324

57

1-76

2-35

Maine,

628,279

7,614

81

1-23

1-32

Maryland,.
687,049

7,370

92

1-09

1-68

Massachusetts,

1,231,066

21,303

57

1-76

1-98

Michigan,

749,113

7,390

100

1-00

146

Minnesota,.
