Report on the vital statistics of the United States : made to the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York / by James Wynne.

  • James Wynne
Date:
1857
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Credit: Report on the vital statistics of the United States : made to the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York / by James Wynne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    females, which the State furnishes to people other parts of the Union, and to traverse the world. From the census of New York city, just published, it appears that 16,006 of its inhabitants were born in New England, and throughout all the Western States New England men are found. It would be an exceedingly interesting enquiry, how many emigrants have been fur- nished each year by Massachusetts. And if a good system of registration had been in operation, we should have been able to show how many have gone hence to spread the wholesome influence of the land of their birth in other States and other regions. If every 10,000 births furnish 1,250 emigrants, the 25,000 births which have been estimated to take place in the State annually would furnish over 3,000 to spend the remainder of their lives in other lands than that of their nativity.* The census for 1850 gives the birth-place of each white inhabitant of the United States, so far as they could be ascertained ; and that they have been arrived at with tolerable correctness is evidenced by the fact, that of 19,987,563 inhabitants, the places of birth of all except 39,146 are given. Of these, the whole number of persons born in Massa- chusetts is, ..... . Residing in ...... in other States, .... Of which there are in Connecticut, . Maine, New Hampshire, . Rhode Island, Vermont, In other States and Territories, ..... 126,239 - Letter of Mr. Shuttuek to the Secretary of State of Massachusetts, p. S]. 14 894,818 695,236 199,582 11,366 16,535 18,495 11,888 15,059 73,343