The New York herald., 1850-05-20

lodged there few aref ound proportionatcly to suc
eumb to the disease 1t may be safely affirmed that
proper personal cleanliness nearly nvulnerable
not perhaps TO attack Of the cholera but to it's fatal
issue. t
Intempsrance was found to have been among the
deporsble habits Of many Of the subjects brought to
hospitals; some dying there from delirum tremens
To state that this vice goes hand in hand with desti
tuition indeed 1t is not produced by penury and the
pinehng dependency of want is only to reiterate
OF the 567l deaths resulting from cholera. $3.50
known to have been foreigners. The argument sug-
gested by these facts Is obvious The uniformly bet
ter condition as 1t regards food rament and domestic
comforts Of native citizens than that of emgrants
who approach our shores, and take up their abodes
among us need not be stated here TO ind uce belief
IL fact sufficiently notorious
Dr hlte mas some excellent observations upon the
ane nuisances the bone and flesh boiling esta-
pnsnehts' uhe manure heaps and slaughter houses,
generating disease and death in our city
Inc mortality Of males exceeds that OF females
Thousand one hundred aud fifty seven This excess Ia
mostly caused by the greater mortality of male chill
oren Tor while OF adults the Of males Is only
one hundred and seventeen, that of children amounts
to one thousand and forty This rate of p,ortslity
among children of the male sex as here and
manifested is subject tor interesting epouiry The
greater mortality in male adults over females Is not 70
DC atbuied to any popularity of sex much as to
60 cSnalon In ne Males are more exposed to the causes
OF aiseate ana accident by their professions calpgs
and business 1t curious enough that IL Is not fonpd
to be the case in the coored population probably be-
perance as the other sex.
The highest item Of mortality next to cholera is of
increase over previous years
The number of deaths OF still born and premature
births is steadily on the increase In the three last
years the deaths, from that source make a total of
1889 suggesting fearful amount Of crime that has
the light of day.
DIR. White justly complains of the want of some uni
form system Of nomenclature, to be by the ply.
sicians in their certificates of deaths He says
There is great carelessness and Indifference mani
Tested by physicians in the performance of this mpor-
tant duty insomuch that these annual reports and re-
cords are little more than statements of the number of
deaths while the interesting useful results to
be derived from knowing the true OF death ex
pressed in n systematic and uniform language. is
scarcely to be found By the aid Of a petent body
OF physicians, system might be brought forward and
adopted making 1t incumbent upon medical men in
writing certificates, to comply with its requsitions
To facilitate the general adoption Of such a plan
printed blanks should be issued with the system of
nomenclature arranged. Returns Of asphyxa,
bleeding cancer congestion convulsions' de-
bility,' eruption fever,' inflammation tumor,
and such like, that mean little more than want Of
breath, want Of blood, want of strength. Sc would
then give place to something tangible and useful 1t
would be vain however to think of ending any
system without making it the imperative duty OF ply
sicians to comply with its requisitions.n
We shall conclude with the following table of the
cemeteries where the dead Of 1S49 have been inferred
indicating does to great extent the religious
demo omination to which the deceased belonged -