The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-01-01

1ie; congestfon cf lungs, q; efscl.e, 81 ! con.
sumption, 2211 usions % Group
| 1s; esstitts, s5aDopt carrie
OF spine, T; debility, a delfrium TIRE
linens, 4; dfarrbna iseuteL 3t. diatrhn
tchronicI 81; diphtheria, 81; dropsy !, 40;
j drowning, 10; disease of l1ysenfcfy, 4
idysentery laeute1, 81; dysentefy tchrouicI, s
sempyemfs, q; eriboiisrs, D; epilepsy, /;
lerysipeiss, 8; effects OF Q fall, 1; exhaustion
L; fever (child.bed,, A; fever {eonEestiye),9 9:
fever intermittent, 2 fever (remften,), 8
fever ,(scarlet), q; fever (typhoidl, 40; fever
lNypho-malarial). g.; fever igastro. entric), /;
fever lgastric(, l; fracture, gaDgTenes Q:
gastritis, 10; gastro-enteritis. i; gapgrena
owls, 1 /; heart.disease. 80: bemorrhaRe,
lungs, stomach. &c, 10; II amoptysis, B.;
by drocephalus, g.; hipjoint disease, /;
imperfect development, s.; hamilton, @ /; In
fapticide, II; infantiIe lockjlw, f6; inf TIM
nation Of bowels, r.; inflammation Of brain,
25; inflammation OF stomach, 2; insanity,
L.; intemperance, g.; irtussusception, 3; In.
digestion, 1; jtundice, liver.disease. 8,
larry Dgitis, ! (; marasmus, Sc meningitis, q;
lmalformation, L; old age, So; paralysis, d /;
pleurisy, /; pneumonia, 81; poison Iacci-
dentaD, 2; premature birth, 40 puefperai
commissions, z; pyamia, 6; perplTa, 4; pro-
lapsis uteri, Il; peritonitis, pros
tatitis, 1; paralysis or the bladder, 1 |;
rheumatics, 2; rupture of bladder, 1
scrofufa, 6; suicide, 8 sunstroke, phi.
liz, &; suffocation, 6; suppression of urine,
L; spasm of glettis, I; spinal disease, 1 !;
structure (nrethral), 2; tabes mesentericas 9;
teething, IS: tetanus, 8 tumor, g.; tuoer-
culosis, 20; tuburcnlar meningitis, 3; tonsil.
litis, l.; ulcer, q. urEnia, 8 yariola, l..
whooping.cough, 81; wounds, 8; worms, 2;
unknown causes, SO.
Whole number of deaths, 1858. Still
boru--1 hite, g.; eolored, i27. !
Ser.-Male-, 79l; females, 1884,. i
Color.--White males $50; white females,
3G colored males, 43l; colored females,
425. ..s.Ns.
Ages.-From 1 to 80 days, 1863; 1 to 6
months, l47 IS months TO year, 13l; to
8 years, POI; to, 8 years, 10; s toto years,
45; 10 to 20 years, 70; 20 years to 80. 173;
80 years to 40. 106; 40 years to 80, 1928; 30
years to 60, 106; 50 years to 10, So; ~ years
to 80, 81; 80 years to so, 80 !; 80 ears to 100,
6; over 100 years, 4; unknown, 10.
Cond,tion.-Single, 1,021; married., 312;
widowers, OIL, widows, 1863; unknown, 20.
Ndhoity.-United States, 1,479; Ireland,
43; England. H.; Germany, 81; British
America, Q; Italy, /; Scotland, 1; Swiizer.
land, 1; Canary Islands, South Wales, !;
unknown,9. u.
Localit,es.-M Marshall Ward, 1871; JetFer.
son Ward, 2S1; Madison Ward, 1856; Mon
roe Ward, 242; Clay Ward. 1914; Jackson
Ward, 3l9; City at Large, 49,; Almsbouse,
1872; SMALLPOX Hospital, Church Insti.
tute Medical College HospitaD, 8; Peniten-
tiary, 4; City Jail. 2. 80
By nhom Certified. Regular practitiou-
ers, 1,349; irregular practitioners. 10; coro.
ner, 81; members of Board of Health, 157.
1t will be seen from the foregoing that
the number of deaths in the; city during
the past year was 1,583-whites, 127; CO.
lored; s56; still-born, 19i-.whites, "a; co
lored, 127. The Board Of Health, In their
annual report for 1873, give the total num-
| Der of deaths for that year at 2,037-sh0wing
decrease in 1874 Of 454 The still-borns
| for 1873 numbered 167-showng an increase
for 1874 IA. 415.o ~
Our city has been happily blessed during
| the past year in haying no Visitations from
epidemic or contagious diseases, only one
death having occurred from variola; while
| in 1873 there were % deaths from smallpox
and variooid-13 white and Is coiored.
The deaths from diphtberia were 32;
while in 1873 sixty, six persons died from this
| disease. Typhoid fever in 1874 caused 49
| deaths. In 1878 the deaths from the same
| disease were Is. DiarrhGl-acute and chro-
| nic-caused &C deaths; falling OF from
| 1873 of 7, although the disease in the three
| previous years has been marked by an in
crease. The number Of deaths from cholera.
infantum was &c. Although the mortality
| from this disease had largely increased each
year from 1871 to 1878, 10 1874 there was a
| corresponding decrease, the number being
AZ less than iu 1873. Alcoholism Is assigned
as the cause of death in only four cases-a
| falling off from previous years OF more than
| fifty per celt.
Consumption has: caused 227 deaths, or
one-seventh of the whole number reported
for the year. In 1878 there were 239 deaths
! from the same cause; in 1872 there were
| 1877, ADD in 1871 there were 1856. Total for
four years, S4S. The deaths from pueumo-
| mia numbered S7-a decrease from 1873 OF
%; heart.dsease. 59-an increase OF 4 ; con.
vuislons, 53-a decrease of 4. Fifty nine
persons died from old age. Tbirty-ope have
died violent deaths, such as drowning, sui
eide, wounds, burns, aud scalds, and other
casualties. Of Children between the ages OF
one day and three years, GA, or over two
ffths of the whole, have died. The deaths
this year also include four centenarians.
The mortality between the two sexes has
been as nearly equal as 1t could possibly have
been-791 males and 1872 females. One hum
dred and four deaths have occurred among
our foreign population. The greatest num-
Der of deaths in any one month occurred Id
JuIy-174 being reported; while the small
est number (9D occurred in April.