TABLE 1.-POPULATION OF THE COUNTIES OF NEW JERSEY AND OF MUNICIPALITIES HAVING 5,000 INHABITANTS OR OVER FOR THE CENSUS YEARS 1880, 1885, 1890, 1895, 1900, 1905 AND 1910. COMPARATIVE DEATH RATE OF THE WHITE AND COLORED INHAB- The following table shows the estimated population, the total death-rate, and the death-rate among the white, and the death-rate among the colored inhabitants in New Jersey. It covers a period of ten years and a marked difference is shown in the death rates: TABLE 2.-SHOWING JERSEY, WITH NUMBER OF WHITE AND COLORED INHABITANTS IN NEW The following table shows the number of births, marriages and deaths in New Jersey, for the thirty-two years ending December 31st, 1910. It is interesting to note that during the past ten years there has been a gradual increase in the birth-rate, and under the present laws in regard to reporting births there is no doubt that the time is not far distant when practically all of the births that take place in New Jersey will be reported. It is the experience of this department that most of the persons who fail to report births do so through ignorance of the law, and therefore rather than carry on a campaign of prosecutions in such cases it has been the policy to try and educate those negligent in making reports, to the importance of filing a record of every birth. This work has been found difficult because of the employment of midwives among the foreign population, many of whom are unable to read or write the English language, and in such cases we have recommended to the local registrars that they make a periodical canvass of the foreign colonies in their sanitary district, and endeavor to have all unreported births placed on file. TABLE 3.-SHOWING POPULATION, NUMBER OF BIRTHS REPORTED, NUMBER OF MARRIAGES AND NUMBER OF DEATHS IN NEW JERSEY, WITH BIRTH-RATES, * Estimated except for census years. NOTE. The reports of births are not as complete as are those for marriages and deaths, hence the above table does not represent with accuracy the relation between birth-rates and death rates. NOTE. The large number of marriages reported during the years 1886-1897 was due to the unrestricted authority contained in the laws for the performance of the marriage ceremony in the case of non-residents, and the marked decrease in the number of marriages which occurred in 1898 was directly consequent upon the enactment of the law requiring a license in cases where both parties are non-residents of the State, and again in 1910, when the law became operative requiring that all persons marrying in New Jersey shall first secure a license. MARRIAGES. It was expected that the marriage license law would be the means of decreasing the number of marriages in this State, and the figures showing the marriages for 1910 are 1,812 less than the preceding year. It thus appears that practically 2,000 marriages which would have taken place in New Jersey were prevented because of the marriage license law. Of course it is difficult to approximate how many of these marriages were of the runaway sort, but a fair estimate would place the figures well up into the hundreds, and there is no better argument than that shown by these figures to uphold the license law. TABLE 4.-SHOWING NUMBER OF MARRIAGES RECORDED IN NEW JERSEY FOR THE THIRTY-TWO YEARS ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1910. YEAR. 1879. 1880. 1881. 1882. 1883. 1884. 1885. 1886. 1887. 1888. Marriages in New Jersey....... 7,096 7,963 8,109 8,837 9,166 8,968 8,989 12,351 15,416 16,025 Persons married per 1,000 population 13.91 14.08 13.98 14.86 15.16 15.37 14.07 18.85 22.96 23.31 YEAR. 1889. 1890. 1891. 1892. 1893. 1894. 1895. 1896. 1897. 1898. Marriages in New Jersey..... 15,726 15,564 15,305 16,082 17,178 16,245 15,873 18,370 18,171 Persons married per 1,000 population. 13,213 22.34 21.60 20.70 21.28 22.33 20.59 18.98 21.38 20.60 14.50 YEAR. 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903. 1904. 1905. 1906. 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. Marriages in New Jersey... 13,336 14,611 16,539 18,150 19,512 18,919 20,572 21,580 23,649 26,155 29,724 27,912 Persons mar ried per 1,000 population.... 15.40 15.51 17.23 18.45 19.35 18.38 19.19 19.65 21.04 22.74 25.27 22.00 DEATHS. There has been practically very little change in the death-rate of New Jersey for the past three years. The total number of deaths for the year ending December 31st, 1910, was 39,494, and the death-rate per 1,000 inhabitants, 15.57. The statistical data now contained on the death certificates filed in this department is more complete than ever before, especially in reference to the occupation of the deceased, which permits a classification of mortality by occupations, which will be found in another portion of this report. No doubt the time is not far distant when uniform tables in reference to tabulating deaths will be adopted by all registration states and cities, and after such data has been compiled for a short time the comparative mortality from various diseases in all parts of our nation will be available in like form. CHART SHOWING DEATH-RATES IN NEW JERSEY, PER 1,000 INHABITANTS FOR THIRTY-TWO YEARS, 1879-1910. TABLE 5.-DEATHS IN NEW JERSEY, BY AGE PERIODS, FOR THE YEAR ENDING 2887 5465 3296 903 584 869 1286 1423 1621 1915 1810 1808 2045 2023 4787 4338 2132 298 41 39.494 |