Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1896 — Vital Statistics from Michigan. [ARTICLE]

Vital Statistics from Michigan.

A recent bulletin of the Michigan census bureau is devoted to the occupations of the people of the State over 10 years of age. Agriculture holds the place of Importance, farm workers being 31.80 per cent of the total number of males whose occupations are reported, as compared with 18.75 per cent in manufacturing and mining industries, 10.49 per cent in trade and transportation, 10.35 in domestic and personal service, and 2.33 per cent, in the professions. The native stock holds Its own on the farms, too, the per cent of agriculturists who are native born being 70.49. The foreign born are found more largely in domestic and personal service, and in manufacturing and mining, representing near one-half In each, being 46.88 per cent, in the first named, and 45.18 per cent in the other. Child workers, between the ages of 10 and 16, are 2.48 per cent of the whole, and workers over 60 years of age are S.Bl per cent. Female workers constitute about one-fourth of the whole number under 21 years of age, but between that age and 60 years their proportion falls to 9 per cent, dropping to 3 per cent, among those over 60 years of age.