The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-11-28
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rho diseases thai XIII.

The registrar.general SHOWS III Tue re-
,,,,, vbich he has issued on the year
KS ths, twoAhirds Of the deaths in
falkland occurred from one or other Of
Sftsen causes. Bronchitis heads the list;
team !, caused 5s,O22 deaths, larger number
,hSn IN INV year included in a table er.
ending over the preceding fifteen years.
ye1, comes phthiSis, or consumption,
TSicb cut short 1889 lives, :. smaller
number than in almost any OF the pre-.
ctdtug fifteen Iyears. Atropby and de-
Sili,y account for SO,995 deaths, chiefly
,iyoupgchildren. Old age, which should
/. bipI.s, on the list Of causes OF
is,ths, Is fourth, and 10 it 2S,6O4
Js,,b. are referred; the list includes l2,-
4S5 men aud lG,lO9 women, all over six
,r.dye years old, and some centenarianS.
i;.,rt disease, which continues TO in.
S - accounts for 2s,5lS deaths; and
COMMISSIONS caused 27,lS9, almost all of
1S.m deaths Of children. Pneumonia,
~ ,D fatal than for some few
, TsaT,, occasioued 95,927 deaths. Eight
N tbe Ii,t stands scarlet fever, to which
\, many as 94,922 deaths are attributed;
an endemic Of scarlet fever had set 10,
and Ibis number l. nearly double that OF
si,her OF the Two next preceding years.
DiIrrh&a, which IS more fatal than L
vw twenty years ago, caused 2l,2O4
Is..hs more than 1900 Of them occur:
inV among children under i've years Of
ace. DR.. ". Farr thinks it not improb.
aSIs that the mixture oil sewage in water
tends 10 spread this disease among child:
rem. Apoplexy and paralysis, both Of
them on the increase ollate years, caused
I2,SIs and 9,j79 deaths respectively in
ISL; bu. diseases Of the nervous system
aid not show 30 great an increase
il that year as diseases OF the organs OF
circulation. Measles were more fatal
than on the average they were the cause
OI 1885 deaths. Cancer, one oil
The lOnges. and most painful dis
suei TO which mankind are sub
jecl, is growing more fatal, and
Is many AZ ll,Oll deaths were aScribed
uit in 1874, comprising $40 males and
;,54l females. Cancer spares the young;
MOS. Of the deaths occur at ages above
iorty.ave, and il il noticeable in the
usta returns that under that age the
ielIhs Of males were moro numerous
than those OF females, but at ages over
io,y.ive there were registered 1901
Deaths Of males and no lesV than !, ll4
deaths Of females. Dr.. Farr's comment
i.,hat "iOrces which had been expended
10 building up normal organizations
we're then diverted towards heterOlogous
,uuctures.' LAST on the list OF the iit-
.tsu chief foes of life come premature
birth, which in 1874 accounted for 1882
ltltii, and whooping cough, 1882
deaths. The rate Of mortality in the
rear from all causes was not above the
Nsrage, but 1t was higher than that OF
tho preceding year. Nearly half the
sIosl vaa attributable to scarlet fever
and measles, while atmospheric and
other agencies raised the deaths from
many causes. In reviewing the causes
olleath Dr.. Farr remarks that tuber-
cuIAr diseases show signs Of subsistence.
TyPhu. and simple continued fever arc
noticed "a having shown tendency to
decline since three forms OF fever have
Lesa distinguished in the returns, but en-
terCtever showed no symptom Of decline.
uauIGtill holds It's own. The death rate
from alcoholism was higher in 1874 than
il h., been for some years. Hydropho-
Bis, Notwithstanding police regulations, is
Twice as fatal "a it was twenty years ago,
there were 81 deaths from this cause in
ISL. The violent deaths were 1920,
!hehighCSt number yet registered. Near
YsII were from accident or negligence,
aui the executions reached the unusual
number Of IS, and there were 1902 sui.
ctde'; There were l,9949 persons killed
onrllIwAysin the year in some way or
Other. The years returns show 1878
persons killed by horse conyeyances;
tEaR'cArG killed g., omnibuses only
IS persons. BY cabs 81 per-
Sous were killed, and by carriages 50, and
IhI. Limitation Of the numbers il noted
a. implying great skill on tue part OF
NE drivers In streets often crowded. The
There were 9i2 deaths from injuries con.
HsSstt with copper, tin, iron and other
mines IsI Deaths BY poisoning increased to
W, lbOu. third Of them being ascer-
IalHsd suicides, There were % boys and
men, nearly all iolloEiag out door oceu.
9auUu', killed BY lightning. sunstroke
SnlA'Al 70 20 persons, and ia deaths
sss ucribed 70 gelatio and exposure to
Tod' Virl only fourteen years old,
laughter Of laborer, died In childbirth.
la.'s vas 4 death from the bite Of q fox,
i0a The bite Of a rat, from the scratch
%iSa', from the bite Of leech, from
%,s'HTg Of hornet, and two from the
lug Oi T"P' Thus by one way or an
'Sls' more than half a million persons