The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-06-17
convention
VITAL STATISTICS IN NOR
GAN TOWNSHIP.

Looking over The returns of the
number of births and deaths in
this County, for the year ending
March 81, 1870, made to the Pro-
bate Court by the several Town
ship Assessors. we notice that
Morgan Township makes an en-
tirely different exhibit from that
of any other Township in the
County. While the other Town
ships report the number of births
to be near four to n of the
deaths, Morgan Township exhibits
the fact that the births number
only .thirty-six, while the deaths
number thirty seven; the deaths
d~oubleing, trebleing and quadru-
pleing the deaths in all the other.
Townships except Marion, where
the population is equal to that of
Morgan, and the deaths number
nineteen, barely owe half those of
Morgan. The Township of Wind
sor shows eighty.two births and
only seventeen deaths, showing a
prolific and heaIty community.
The returns for Morgan Town
ship further show that Of the num-
Der of births, twenty were males
and sixteen females; thlrty>fve of
them whites and one colored. OF.
the number of deaths, zine were
married, twenty-s;x single, and two
widows; thirty-one of them natives
of Ohio, one of England, one of
Maryland, three of Pennsylvania,
and one whose place of nativity
is unknown; thirty-six of.esthem
whites, aud one colored female 104
years old. The direct and indirect
causes of death were SlGteen Of them
unknoca, three of consumption, one
of brain disease, two of scarlet fe-
yer, FIVE of fux, three of old age,
two of palsy, two of heart disease,
one of whooping-cough, and one of
lung disease.
This exhibit makes a depiorable
showing of vital statistics for Nor
gan. Township, q community OF
about three thousand souls. And,
unpaIatable as 1t may be to the
minds of many to be told of 1t, it Is
undoubtedly true that the cause of
this alarming preponderenee Of
death and disease over life and
robust health, is well known to al
most every man and woman in this
community. Without doubt, the
causes of an existence of similar
statistical facts in the New Eng
land States have crept into this
community, and are making fear
full havoc of the virtues possessed
by the grandfathers and grahdmoth.
ers of the present generation, and
which they would have been glad
tc have been assured would have
been preserved in their children,
ond chadrens' children for all time
to come; and on which depends to
a greater extent than on any other,
the prosperity of a nation, and its
advancement in all that elevates a
people either spiritually, morally
mentally, or materially. The
trouble is that husbands prefer to
see their wives fade, and droop,
and die, to assuming the duties
and responsibilities of being at the
head of a family which nature de-
signed their wives should be the
mothers of. The trouble is that
wives prefer to become premature
Iy old, to drag through a miserable
existence of constant pains and
aches and physical and mental
weaknessos, TO sacrifice health 81
body and contentment of mind, to
make a moekery of revealed reilg-
ion and of nature, in fact TO COM
NIT slow suicide, and pass away to
an early grave feeling that their
life has been a burden 70 them
selves and of no possible account
to the world-all this they prefer
to assuming the cares and duties
of maternity, which the God of the
Uaiverse designed them for. The
ultimate reward Of such inquiry is
only disease and death; and, if re-
vealed religion is true, a future in
eternal he'll.