Infant mortality in Pittsburgh : an analysis of records for 1920 with six charts . ass was passed by the Statelegislature in 1921. A study of birth rates does not offer evidence which can be re-garded as conclusive that registration is less complete in Pittsburghthan in other cities. Pittsburgh maintained a relatively high birthrate for the period from 1915 to 1919, as is shown by the followingcomparison of its birth rates per 1,000 population with those for theentire birth registration area: Area. 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 ?Pittsburgh i Birth registrati
Infant mortality in Pittsburgh : an analysis of records for 1920 with six charts . ass was passed by the Statelegislature in 1921. A study of birth rates does not offer evidence which can be re-garded as conclusive that registration is less complete in Pittsburghthan in other cities. Pittsburgh maintained a relatively high birthrate for the period from 1915 to 1919, as is shown by the followingcomparison of its birth rates per 1,000 population with those for theentire birth registration area: Area. 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 ?Pittsburgh i Birth registration area 22 3 1 U. S. Bureau of the Census, Birth Statistics, 1919, p. S. AVhile the birtli rate for the city decreased from 28:6 in 1915 in 1919, a difference of , the decline was in accordance witha Nation-wide falling birth rate. Pittsburghs birth rate in 1919was still above tliat for 14 of the IT other large cities in the registra-tion area, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, all withlarge numbers of foreign born. INFANT MORTALITY IN 53437°—21- 10 INFANT MORTALITY IN PITTSBURGH. In 1920, when the recent census figures for the population of Pitts-burgh made it possible to compute a rate on actual rather than esti-mated population, the birth rate was 25. ANALYSIS OF INFANT DEATH CERTIFICATES. The number of registered live births as reported by the Pitts-burgh Department of Public Health and used in this study was 14,694,In addition, there were 814 stillbirths registered, making a total of15,508 births for the city. The infant death certificates, transcripts of which were securedby the Childrens Bureau, numbered 1,626—seven more than re-ported by the city department of health. On this basis the infantmortality rate was instead of , the rate announced bythe department of health. Of the 1,626 deaths, 185 were nonresident cases; for one, a found-ling, residence was not reported. Nonresident babies who died inPittsburgh came
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