. Annual report of the Board of Health of the Health Department of the City of New York. ness of the addresses, it was decided to distribute the births occur-ring in the various maternity hospitals in the City to the home addresses of theparents. In order to secure additional information for the proposed birth table-, thebirth certificates were revised, and will be put in circulation during 1916. Still Births. A new still birth certificate was put in circulation and beginningJanuary 1st, 1916, the still births will also be tabulated by means of a punch card andan electric sorter and counter. I
. Annual report of the Board of Health of the Health Department of the City of New York. ness of the addresses, it was decided to distribute the births occur-ring in the various maternity hospitals in the City to the home addresses of theparents. In order to secure additional information for the proposed birth table-, thebirth certificates were revised, and will be put in circulation during 1916. Still Births. A new still birth certificate was put in circulation and beginningJanuary 1st, 1916, the still births will also be tabulated by means of a punch card andan electric sorter and counter. It is hoped that by means of the more extensivetabulations made possible by the new procedure, valuable information as to the ef-fect of occupation, age and nationality of the mother, upon the cause of still birthwill be obtained. The need of such information in the planning of prenatal workhas been felt for some time. TNote.—The general work of the Bureau of Records is shown in Tables .il and32, The usual meteorological tables for 1915 are also given.! 118 BUREAU OF RECORDS. < X. 119 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ()F HKALTH. CHART II. \JNOUtA1ft3 P 3-M-YKS OPUl _ATI0N& \i :-!-??? 3EAT IS A23* RRA OJSBOt *JGED BY AGE GROUPS I900&I9H hj&OrO* 4I9C 1 .....-. 6639 •27* 1 * f il ta*77° Sfil4 1 ? 73921 UH*H 29561 ?*092 1 S9TJ» J So$o4£ 1 /609 1 2«W4a 688fl 1 -•1 94 /*/«* 975< liOo 6Sft* 1 9»91* (4^3 3A7 This Chart seeks to show the increase in population in the different age groups as well as theincrease or decrease in mortality in each group. Since the number of deaths is relatively lowas compared with the population, it was necessary to show the deaths on a different scale. In the age group under five years ami in that between five and fourteen years, there has beenboth a relative and actual saving of life; between fifteen and twenty-four years there was arelative saving of life; between twenty-five and thirty-five there was both a relative and actualsaving of l
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