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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    The number of dwellings in Great Britain and Ireland, according to the census of 1851, was 4,717,172. The number in the United States, in 1850, was 3,362,337. The relative distribution of the population among those of the United States has been given in the census returns, from which it would appear that upon an average there was a house for every six persons, and ninety- three houses for each hundred families, which are thus distributed :— Geographical Divisions. New England, . . Middle States, . . Southern States, . . Southwestern States, Northwestern States, California & Territories Total, . . . 3,362,337 3,598,195 18.00 Upon the average for the Union, there are 16.82 houses for every 100 white and free colored persons, or a little less than one house to every six persons, the ratio between the States varying from 15.17 dwellings to every 109 persons in Rhode Island to 25.6 in California. The proportion of fami- lies to dwellings in the Union is as 107.01 to 100. In Utah and Oregon there is one dwelling to every family; in Louisiana 100 to every 110; in Connecticut 100 to 114; in Massachusetts and Rhode Island 100 to 126, &c, &c.—Gompenrf. Census. In conjunction with this is placed a tabulated statement, embracing similar information concerning the several principal European States:— Dwellings of white and free colored. Families of white and free colored. Ratio of families to ]00 inhabitants. 448,789 51S,532 19.01 . 1,046,131 1,175,612 18.01 423,681 426,691 17.88 359,511 366,802 17.65 . 1,041,332 1,066,777 17.51 js, 42,S93 43,781 23.68