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...Abel finds five financial advantages in consolidation. 1) It "serves to concentrate the school revenues of a given area at one or a few points." 2) It "helps to distribute the burden of school taxation more equitably over the larger area." 3) It "offers the possibility of arranging better units for the apportionment of school funds." 4) "State and Federal aid for education can better be focused through the media of larger schools." 5) "In some cases it cost less to maintain the consolidated school than the one-room schools that were united to form...
Next day, the rebels, who claimed several minor victories on the eastern front, surprised Federal General Lazaro Cardenas and he, his staff and 300 cavalry were made prisoners. The Federal forces were afterwards withdrawn from the Guadalajara area and it was reported that the battle may not begin for two weeks. A battle was, however, reported imminent on the eastern front at Tehuac...
General. The general deathrate for the registration area* was 11.8 per 1,000 population. This is an increase of 0.2 over the 1921 rate of 11.6, but is still considerably below the 1920 rate of 13.1. The general deathrate during the present century has declined from 17.6 in 1900 and the reduction has been fairly regular with the exception of the influenza year (1918), when the rate ballooned...
Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis deaths declined from 99.8 per 100,000 population for 1921 to 97.4 for 1922. In the five years 1918-1922, the rate was cut from 150 to 97.4. The total number of tuberculosis deaths in the registration area was 90,452. Twelve states showed slight increases, but these were more than balanced by the reductions in 22 states. The highest rate was in Colorado, 183.3 per 100,000, but this is due in large part to the many deaths of tuberculosis patients attracted there for the climate. The lowest rate was in Nebraska, with...
...Registration Area for deaths includes 34 states, with 85% of the total population...