Excerpt from An Investigation Into the Mortality Rates of the City of New York Including that of 1900, there have been made twelve enumerations of the people of the United States. Much data and valuable information have been gathered regarding the population and deaths, but we have thus far contented ourselves with mere guesses as to the possible trend of the death rates. The vital statistics of no period have been crystalized into a mortality table. It is unfortunate that such is the case, but it is to be hoped that the Census Bureau, which has been lately made a permanent institution, will in the near future set before us a table describing the mortality rates of our people at the beginning of this, the twentieth, century. I should indeed be pleased to have the honor of constructing the American Table No. 1, but such a task is far too great for the time at my disposal. I have determined, however, to lay before the Society an investigation into the mortality rates of some community large enough to give an average, and for this purpose have chosen that of the City of New York, whose vital statistics are near at hand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.