Excerpt from Maternal Mortality in Fifteen States The distribution of the population, however, was less similar in respect to urban and rural groups for the States of the study and the United States as a whole. In the 15 States included in the study 36 percent of the population were in urban areas and 64 percent in rural areas.8 In the entire United States 42 percent of the population lived in 'cities of or more and 58 percent in rural areas. In the 15 States and during the years of the study the deaths of women were assigned to puerperal causes by the United States Bureau of the Census in accordance with the International List of Causes of Death. These deaths made up 26 percent of the deaths from puerperal causes in the United States birth registration area for the 2 years. In the States of the study 47 per cent of the maternal deaths were urban and 53 percent were rural; in the birth-registration area for these 2 years 54 percent of the maternal deaths were urban and 46 percent rural. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.