Births 222 355 277 Deaths 216 246 190 Increase 6 109 87 In Eastern Europe, says Rubin, the birth rate varied from 450 to 470 for a century (1800 to 1900); but in Western Europe, since 1870, it fell from 342 to 313 (1900). The determination of this rate in the United States cannot be made with certainty or confidence, owing to the imperfection of the data. Our census reports yield such results as these for the last decade, for the whole United States, according to the analyses of the census: Average annual excess of births per myriad, 177; average annual number of deaths per myriad, 174; hence, average annual number of births per myriad, 351. On this result we may perhaps rely so far as to say that the rate lies somewhere between 330 and 370. Similar analysis yields the following average annual excess of births for native Whites, foreign Whites, and the Coloured (_i.e._ practically Negroes) in the United States, and in the four grand divisions: Northeastern, Central and Northern, Southern, and Western. N.W. F W. C. United States 195 365 178 Northeastern 38 396 101 Central and Northern 200 360 102 Southern 241 274 191 Western 259 403 2 Here the more rapid multiplication of the Caucasian is indicated under all conditions, with the single startling exception of New England. In the West, the Coloured are mostly Indians. Not less impressive are these same excesses arranged by States: Ala. Ark. Del. D.C. Fla. Ga. Ky. La. Md. Miss. N.C. S.C. N.W. 276 297 103 132 288 234 209 358 168 258 193 178 F.W. 306 317 310 194 497 240 152 112 175 225 104 110 C. 249 233 73 107 245 225 83 215 92 264 138 167 Tenn. Tex. Va. W.Va. Ill. Ind. Ia. Kan. Mich. Minn. Mo. Neb. N.W. 173 387 75 339 228 163 298 216 193 400 263 222 F.W. 230 532 106 252 439 194 310 300 401 534 171 437 C. 136 310 74 196 168 142 62 202 150 26 90 -43 N.J. N.D. O. Pa. S.D. Wis. Conn. Me. Mass. N.H. N.Y. R.I. Vt. N.W. 139 353 129 140 299 412 -18 -42 38 -104 89 ... -88 F.W. 398 921 219 368 528 345 425 474 456 585 366 462 232 C. 136 -230 120 138 -241 -146 89 125 174 -150 88 60 184