The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-01-09

The Diseases that Kill .

The registrar general shows. III the
report which he hss issued on tie yea,
Il, iha. two-thirsi- If the deaths ip
Eng occurred from one or the othe,
~ fifteen c4u-es. Bronchitis head. tb.
ii>t. II caused ~. 3.022 deaths. a numb
greater than ID any year included il
table extending over the.precediug if
teen years Next comes phh,isis, or
assumption. which cut short 49,3.9
i!F'S, smaller number than in almost
any Of the preceding fifteen years.
Atrophy AID debility account for 81. .995
deaths, chiefly Of young children. Old
age. which should be highest on the
ii'' oi causes of death. is fourth, and
II It 2s,6Oi deaths are referred: the
/ last includes l2,i9J men asd l6,IO9
women, I'll over ID years old, aud some
cen'ennarians, Heart disease, which
CONTINUES to increase, accounts for 2S.-
3l3 deaths; and convulsious caused
:..l33, almost all Of them deaths Of
o1iliren. Pneumonia. more fatal than
ior some few Years, occasioncd 25.527
deaths Eighth on the list stands scar
let fever. 10 which as many as o4.922
deaths are attributed; al epidemic of
scarlet fever had set 10, and this num-
heris nearly double that of either of the
two next prece ling years. Diarrhpa,
which l. more fatal than II was twenty
years ago. caused ~. 203 deaths, more
than $4,000 OF them occurring among
children under five years of age. DR..
" farr thinks it not improbable that
mixture Of sew erage in water tends to
spread this diseas. among children.
Apople1y and paralysis. both Of them
IN the increase of late years, caused
l2,s4s and 1882 deaths respectively
IN 1874; but diseases Of the neryons
system did not show so great An in
crease ia that year as diseases of the or
gans OF circulation Measels were more
ia'ai than on the average; it was the
cause OF 1926 deaths. Cancer, one of
OF the longest and most painful
diseases to which mankind are subject,
IS growing more fatal, and as many as
l,oll deaths were ascribei to it in
lo4' comprising $40 males and 7,54l
females. Cancer spares the Young j:
most OF the deaths occur at ages above
iorty-tve, and it is noticeable in the
year returns that under that age the |
deaths Of males were more numerous
than those Of females, but at ages over
iorty-hve there were registered 3,G9l |
deaths OF males and 10 less than 7,ll4
deaths OF females. DR.. Farr's COM |
lnens Is that forces which bad been
expended in building up normal Or
carnations were then diverted toward |
heterologous structures" Last on the
list OF the fifteen chief foes of life
come premature birth, which in 1874
accounted for l0,527 deaths, and
sauscs was not above the average, but
t was higher than that Of the proceed
ng year. Nearly one half of the ex-
,ess was attributed to messels, while
and other agencies raised
he deaths from many causes. In re-
viewing the causes of death DR.. Farr
that tubercular diseases show
signs of subsistence. Typhus aud SIM
pie continued fever are noticed as hav-
ing shown tendency to decline since
three forms Of fever have been distin-
guished III the returns. but enteric fever |
showed no symptoms of decline. Gout t
still holds its own. The death rate |
from alcoholism was higher in 1874 |
than it had been for some years. Hy- |
Notwithstanding police reg |
is twice as fatal ss it was
twenty years ago; there were 81 deaths
from it in this city in 1874. The violent
deaths were 1920. The highest num- |
ber yet registered Nearly oil were
from accident or negligence. but the
executions reached the unusual number
of Is. and there were l,592 suicides.
There We're 1.249 persons killed OH rail
Ways ia the year, some way or other
fo"d'a Times.