The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-07-12
HEALTH STATISTICS.
Interesting Statements From Il
kearMeV.


kearney.
| To the Honorable Board of Police Commits
sioners:
Is the largest since August last. mum.
berlng three hundred AMI ninety-seven.
The rapid Increase is due mainly to the
| usual prevalence OF, and mortality from,
| chUleraic and diarrheaI diseases dur.
ing the hot season, and especially af
fecting young children. Instead OF
| any analysis Of the monthly mortality
| list, l beg leave to submit some compar.
isons and remarks covering the half year
past.
erne mortality for the six months emu
ing with June was 2,17S, being 1000 less
| than that for the same period OF 1876
| and 226.4 under the average OF the frs
halves OF the nine preceding years.
From no cause OF death was the re-
| duction so great as from SIN ,ll-pox,
| there having been $40 deaths from that
disease in the first six months of 1876
| and but 5O in the half-year just end.
ed. However, it must be added, the de.
cline in the mortality from this cause
during the last hal'-year has not been
maintained in anything like The same
| prOpOELiOHJ do LuSlS NSlc put utdGub
| IN the last six months OF 1875. Indeed,
it can hardly be said there has been any
diminution in 1he disease for a year
past. How much longer the citizens OF
| Cincinnati will be content to suffer from
| the presence of this loathsome and fatal
disease remains to be seen. The respoi
sibiiity tor the present state Of affairs
clearly rests elsewhere than on this DC.
| partment. The deaths from measles
wnicn we're 83 in the first six months oil
last year, fell to 4 In the past hal:-ye ear
Scarlet lever, happily, occupies an IN
significant position amOngtne causes oil
death, there having been but tata
cases, as compared with the in the
corresponding period in last year.
| Cerebrc-spinal meningitis also, proved
fatal in a fewer number oI cases, The rel
atiye proportion being % 80
Deaths from whooplngcough dimin
shed in the half year from 81 in rs to 43
/ From the diarrheal diseases the NOR
tality was less than in last year, having
been 104 against 139, or decrease o
over twenty-five per cent. However
the rates OF increase during the hyt
weeks ending June 80, was more rapit
Than in the correspondln Weeks of las
F4ar. being equal TO 967 per CENT. Should
such rate OF increase be maintained
(aud The maximum was not reached
mill three weeks later last. sum
/ mer) we may anticipate rathe
formidable mortality from thi
cause during July. How much of thi
waste OF life may be ascribed 10 higl
temperature and other conditions 0
weather, and how much to imprope
diet, and a generally bad sanitary cou
dition OF the city, IL is Impossible t
=: say. 1t is to be regretted, in view Q
. the well.known influence OF filth in ia
yoring such forms OF disease, that tn
general condition Of the City is not BET
ter, However, lamentable as our oWl
losses in this way are, they are, on tn
whole, less than those of certain of Ou
sister cities. For instance, while th
deaths from diarrheal diseases III Cil
4 cinuati during the week ending June q
/ we're in the proportion OF OOPS in ever
= one thousand Inhabitants, they bore III
proportion in Baltimore Of .2383, in Phi
adelphia OF COST, in Richmond OF .24O
and III Chicago OF .U476.
n Again, the increase OF such disease
in the cities named seems much NOR
rapid, having been in 1--WE weeks loo(
z 1912. 1900 and 1000 per cent, respectiyc!,
q as compared wlth s67 in our own city.
The reduction iu deaths referred
conyulsions was from IT'S to 119, or in th
T.. proportion OF 80 per cent. This ma
r probably be explained by the dlminutiO
a. in the prevalence Of lhe princ,pi
zymotic diseases-mostly OF small-pU,
p For IL is fairly presumaDle that many ,
n the Young children who die in cohvu
ii sions are the subjects OF certain OF thot
= liseases which prove fatal in the incip
4. ant stage, or before the characterist
j. symptoms become developed.
notable falling off occurred in II
10 number of deaths from diseases of Il
, brain and its membranes, amounting
'. 227 per cent. The decrease In Il
,5 deatbs from pneumonia and conEesti(
OF the lungs amounted to lO9 per cent.
q. OA the e'Other hand, some incr al
!. mortalitylrom certain zymoLlc and 9th
v diseases will be noted.
Diphlherla caused Lh1rty-two deatl
q beng ten more than occurred In the es
,r lier na1f OF last year.
"a Group proved fatal In eighteen cas-
=. during the first six months OF last yea
and twenty-one during the correspon
ing period Of the present.
An increased mortality from typho
fever is to be noted also; the increa
~ IN the half year amounting to eightee
)h he number Of fatal cases having be-
be hlty-tnree.
m fuerperal fever and erysipelas ca
-. cansed TWO more deaths than in the ID
a. six months ofs1876, when they were ia
i, I'm fifteen anu Twelve oases respe
,ir lvely.
oi During the half y ear ending with Jus
IN. 1876, 397 deaths from consumption W.