Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-01-24
ANNUAL BILL OF MORTALITY,
TOR THE CITY OF NEw.ToRK.

We have Obtained q sight Of the Annual bMi
Of Mortality for this city during the year iooS,
which was presented TO the Common Counc'i iast
Monday evening, and is pow in the process OF
publicaiion. from which we derive the following
particulars:
The whole number Of deaths during the year,
a. will he seen below, was TEN THOUSAND
THREE HUNDRED AND FiFTf-NlNE:
be,uxsfhree thousand nine hundred ana nine'y,
sir more than ever occurred in the city before,
in ans ans year. This extraordinary Increase Of
mortality is mainly attributable tn the ravages OF
MALIGNANT Cholera. which carried oh no less man
three thousand fire hundred and fifteen 'nd''''
duaIs-aII in the months Of July, August, sep
TENDER and October. =
or the whole number. no. s59) there died OF
abscess, S; aneurism, $; spoplexy. 81; asphy1.
ia. 10; asthma. 8; billions dysentery, 3; burned
or scaided, 90; cancer, Is; carries, S; casual
ty, 72: catarrb. 5; chiidbed. So; ehiorosis. >;
CHOLERA, 5jl5: cholera morbus. 93: tholic,
7; compression of the brain, |; CON-UMf'
TION. l4i5; convulsion. sol. confusion. Q;
cramp in the stomach. Is; diabetes. ]; diarr-
hoe, Io4; drinking cold water. s; dropsy, $50;
drorsy in the chest. As; dropsv in the head, 344;
drowned. &C.; dysentety. 100. dyspepsia, q;
epilepsy, IL; erysipelas. Is; lever, s0; DO. OIL
ious. ST; bilious remittent. 8; hectic, s; milan
matorv. S; intermittent, 7; puerperai. D; remit
tent, 81; scarlet. 22l; typhus. 81; lux infant
lie, ss4; fracture, 9; frozen, ); govt, 2; sra'
vel, 2; hsmurrase. 10; hemoptysis. 5; hives OF
Group. l79; h~ysteria. g: jsundice, IA; milan
nation of the bowels. 1876; do. in the brain, SO:
do. in the chest. Il; do. IN the liver. Al; 10. IN
the stomach. so; influenza. SIS; insanity, 4; IN
TEMPERANCE, 119; killed or murdered. s.
locked jaw, 5; lumber abscess. 2; 'narasmus'
| III; MEASLES. 290; modification. Is; nefv'
Gus disease, Q; old age. 154; palsy. So; PeriP
neumony. e34; p~leurisy. %; pneumonia t.y'
phodes, 81: quinsy. Q; rheumatism. Z; rupture
T; schirrus Of the liver. 81; scrofula or king
evil. II; small pox, 80; sore throat, %; spasm'
IS; spina biiha. 5; sprue, So; still born. 5s4
| stranguary. |; sudden death. 2; suicide, 29; sy
| philis. d; tables mes.nterica, "a; %teething, no.
tumor. 5; vomiting blood. I; ulcer. |; unknown
1925. whooping cough. IS; worms, Al: milan
nation of the bladder. 4-Tnial, lO,559.
The number of deaths in January was 5o4;
February, 7s5; March. 545; April. 47s; MAY,
SIS: June, 4lO; july, 2.467,-uf which by Cho
lera, I,7e7; August, e,2O6.-of which bv Cho
lera. l,aO2; September. 1,064,-of which BY
| Cholera, 45l; October 5S6.-of which By Cho
lers. 6s: November, 400; December, $50. To
tdis iU,oCS.
or the age of one year or under. there dice
1872; between one and two years, $50; between
two and FIVE years. 96 5; five and ten years, $50
ten and twenty, ASS; twenty aud thirty. 1897
thirty and forty, 1917; farty and fifty. l,l42; hf'!
and sixty. 7o5; sixty and seventy 469: s~event!
aud eighty 27S; eighty and ninety, l09; ninet,
aud a hundred, 25; over a hundred 2. Tota
1O.S59
1t will be observed that the proportion Of death
in middle age is unusually large: the Choler'
having selected the greater part Of its victims
from that description Of persons.
Or the whole number deceased, 5 goo were
men. 6. 1894 wompn. 2.465 boys. and e,092 girls
| Total u q es, $685. females 1896. Excess o
males. 967.
Proportion Of deaths to the whole population
rating it at go. 600. 1 in eli 10 1881, rating
| the population at 2IO. 900. in 344.
The number OF DEATHS IN 1881 was b sos; u
1880. 5.5s7; in 1929, 5.O94; in 1928, S 1871
in 1897, the same, in 1895, 4,975 journal o
Commerce.