APPENDICES.

(Tables prepared by the United States Bureau of the Census.)

APPENDIX 1.-GROWTH OF REGISTRATION AREA, POPULATION INCLUDED, BY DIVISIONS AND STATES: 1880 TO 1915.

APPENDIX 2A.-DEATHS AND DEATH RATES FROM REGISTRATION SOURCES, BY DIVISIONS AND STATES: 1900 TO 1914. APPENDIX 2B.-DEATHS AND DEATH RATES FROM REGISTRATION AND NONREGISTRATION SOURCES (THE LATTER VERY INCOMPLETE), BY DIVISIONS AND STATES: 1880 TO

1900.

APPENDIX 3.-BIRTHS AND BIRTH RATES, ACCORDING TO DATA AVAILABLE (VERY INCOMPLETE), BY DIVISIONS AND STATES: 1880 TO 1910.

APPENDIX 4.-THE MODEL LAW: “A BILL TO PROVIDE FOR THE REG ISTRATION OF ALL BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN THE

APPENDIX 1.-GROWTH OF REGISTRATION AREA, POPULATION [NOTE.-The year in parenthesis in the "Registration or nonregistration" column is that for which the state geographic section became complete. South Dakota was included for the years 1906 to 1909 only. Where certain years, the former portion embraces the population of cities in the state for which the results of regCarolina, for which state returns collected under a state law which applied to municipalities over a certain extended to cover the entire state. The population embraced under the term "nonregistration" for a especially for the earlier years shown, the term is used simply to distinguish the population either without not been accepted for the time specified.]

INCLUDED, BY DIVISIONS AND STATES: 1880 TO 1915.

was admitted to the registration area as a whole, or for which, by the admission of the last state included, the the population of a state is shown as partly in the registration area and partly in the nonregistration area for istration under municipal ordinance were accepted by the Bureau of the Census. An exception is North size were accepted for places of 1,000 population and over for the years 1910 to 1915; the law has since been given year is not necessarily deprived of all registration service for deaths, although this is frequently true, laws for this purpose, with inadequate laws, or with laws of satisfactory character, but whose results havé

INCLUDED, BY DIVISIONS AND STATES: 1880 TO 1915—Continued. [See note at head of this table, p. 54.]

Includes the population of Indian Territory from 1900 to 1907. In 1907 Indian Territory and Oklahoma were admitted to the Union as the state of Oklahoma.