DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS SAM. L. ROGERS, Director THE FEDERAL REGISTRATION SERVICE OF THE PREPARED FOR THE SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS BY CRESSY L. WILBUR, M. D. CHIEF STATISTICIAN FOR VITAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES DIRECTOR OF VITAL STATISTICS, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ALBANY DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS SAM. L. ROGERS, Director THE FEDERAL REGISTRATION SERVICE OF THE PREPARED FOR THE SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS BY CRESSY L. WILBUR, M. D. CHIEF STATISTICIAN FOR VITAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES DIRECTOR OF VITAL STATISTICS, NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ALBANY Relation of the Census to vital statistics... Extension of the registration area for deaths. Growth of registration area for deaths: 1880 to 1915 (cartograms)....... ..... 10, 11 Population, land area, and death rates of the registration area: 1880 to 1914 Growth of registration area for deaths: 1880 to 1914 (diagram). Adequacy of birth and death registration laws: 1915 (cartograms). Use of standard birth and death certificates: 1915 (cartograms) The standard certificate of death (reduced facsimile).. Mortality card used by the Bureau of the Census: 1914 (reduced facsimile) Problems and defects of the present system of vital statistics.......... APPENDIX 1.—Growth of registration area, population included, by divisions APPENDIX 2A.-Deaths and death rates from registration sources, by divisions APPENDIX 2B.-Deaths and death rates from registration and nonregistration sources (the latter very incomplete), by divisions and states: APPENDIX 3.-Births (exclusive of stillbirths) and birth rates, according to data available (very incomplete), by divisions and states: 1880 APPENDIX 4.—The Model Law: "A bill to provide for the registration of all |