Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1919 — Birth Rate In Indiana. [ARTICLE]

Birth Rate In Indiana.

Washington, D. 0., June 18.—In the blrth-registratlon area of the United States 1,858,792 Infants were bora alive In 1917, representing a birth rate of 24.6 per 1,000 of population. The number of births in Indiana was 63,144; excess of births in Indiana was 58.9 per cent; in Indianapolis, number of births, 5,955; excess of births over deaths, 80 per cent