ted missionary funds to be used in this
section, while one of the District Superintendents of the same
denomination is carrying out a radically changed program for the churches
under his supervision.
[Illustration: MAP A WHERE CONDITIONS DEMAND MISSIONARY AID]
[Illustration: MAP 1 HIGH DEATH RATES FROM TUBERCULOSIS]
[Illustration: MAP 2 HIGH RATES OF ILLEGITIMACY]
[Illustration: MAP 3 WHERE ILLITERACY ABOUNDS]
[Illustration: MAP 4 DISTRIBUTION OF FOREIGN BORN WHITES]
[Illustration: MAP 5 EXCESSIVE OVER-CHURCHING]
[Illustration: MAP 6 CHURCHES MANY BUT MINISTERS FEW]
[Illustration: MAP 7 NUMBER OF PERSONS TO A RESIDENT MINISTER]
[Illustration: MAP 8 VALUE OF FARM PROPERTY IN THE YEAR 1910]
[Illustration: MAP 9 INCREASE IN VALUE OF FARM PROPERTY]
[Illustration: MAP 10 RICH LAND AND POOR LAND]
TABLE A
SHOWING THAT IN A GROUP OF 18 COUNTIES IN SOUTHEASTERN OHIO THERE IS AN
EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF PREVENTABLE DISEASE AND ILLITERACY, AN EXCESSIVE
NUMBER OF ILLEGITIMATE BIRTHS, EXCESSIVE OVERCHURCHING, A VERY SMALL
NUMBER OF RESIDENT MINISTERS IN PROPORTION TO THE NUMBER OF CHURCHES AND
NUMBER OF PEOPLE, THAT AS COMPARED WITH OTHER SECTIONS THE TOTAL VALUE OF
FARM PROPERTY IS SMALL AND THE INCREASE IN VALUE SLIGHT
Key:
1 _Average annual rate of deaths from tuberculosis of the lungs per
100,000 persons, 1909, 1910, 1911_
2 _Average annual rate per 100,000 population of illegitimate births
for 1909, 1910_
3 _Per cent of illiterate males of voting age, 1910_
4 _Per cent of total population who were foreign born white, 1910_
5 _Number of persons to a church_
6 _Per cent of churches which have resident ministers_
7 _Number of persons to each resident minister_
8 _Number of millions of dollars at which farm property is valued_
9 _Per cent increase in value of farm property 1900-1910_
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
For State,
88 counties 125 43.9 4.2 12.5 279 34 825 59
Adams 147 6.9 0.5 266 1031 10 16
Athens 155 65 7.4 5.3 229 21 1086 10 16
Brown 193 4.3 1.9 1129 15
Clermont 164 249 14
Gallia 184 76 8.1 1.2 197 14 1396 7 13
Highland 145 252
Hocking 78 8.6 3.5 235
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