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Increase of Crime in the United States

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 31, 1874

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 43, No. 16.

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Increase of Crime in the United States.

By John Norton Loughborough

The following statements are from a paper published in San Francisco, called the Independent Defender: “From June 1, 1869, to May 31, 1870, there were in the United States 492,263 deaths. 1750 of these were murders. In ten years the number of murders has quadrupled, but the population has not increased at that rate.”
“In 1850, there was a murder for every 102,167 persons. In 1860, one for every 31,793 persons. In 1873, one for every 18,745 persons. Suicides doubled from 1850 to 1860, and trebled from 1860 to 1870.” J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.