Sharp County record., 1878-12-19
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val Statistics,
some ~

some .hal.
FRONTS done to prevent
How much may llfe by attention to
disease and prOloA own by the MaSsa-
nnbTc hvdene is sI last year of the
PpSnsotts eepOrt Ntr( "a State whose vital
a Jnotbs in tbst State u red and presented
S otat;Stics se gsln Gare and fullness
9 ';tb ovtraOrdinSr 5, Massachusetts, is
/ Ua Cor as climate DuS Orthern State, and
; obont an average Ol btainable from the
T. therefore the facts value and of in
. report are Of gene sfa ,
:, tereSt 49,, " ueaVno i00olu
T in Massachusetts cover. S44 than that of
y aoorecate less byl neit3 was at the rate of
: 1916 The mort, 4 - and of the living, a
= 1S to every thio " 5ar since 1870. 1t is
u rate less than my OF mhealth of the State
5 fortunate that the aftefear because fewer
was so good bA nt fhfthan in 1876, and
u children were !. Hover than ever be-
. the birth rate " any of Massachusetts,
u u fore in the hilVada) If people did not
u except during good age in the old
: manage to live stiancetoreign immigrants
Bay State, and stron population, the GEN.
Z came in to swell *1;tfe poor results to
suS-taker would CIV AA'f nome OF Cn6 furi-
Il Il show in the asc - sthe reduced NOR
!. tans. Still, OF tugh so small in
tality, the birt ALL X deaths by about
, number, eXceeAs........4. Drity of this nat
10000. The &RA the population,
! ! ursl urs addition D lide by forefgn-born
= however, was births and marriages
parents. Both the mon to the inhaGit-
: are fewer in propCOf the leading coun-
/. ants than in any dit is fortunate for
8 tries of Europe, aOwk that its average Of
= the State, therefor ds Against the death
! deaths is also les N 1000 of the living
I !, rate of 1874 to eveA In 1877, the returns
!. in Massachusetts, rate of England and
~ for 1876 show thet6 france, 22.7; Prussia,
% Wales to be 81; faA q 29.4 in the LOCO.
a 254: and Austria State is better, and
20 The health OF T. sths in proportion to
a there are fewer es, he farming counties
~ ~ the population iI,,a pre- densely peopled.
a. than in those n tie in Franklin Coun-
y Thus the death'r in Berkshire County
% ty was 14.4, and IN Suffolk County, in
only 15.1, while situated, it was 1877,
which Boston is Fty, also crowded with
and in Essex Cou 3 to the 1000. The
so people, it was l9lce is that cities are
vill general experienf to longevity than the
ok- more unfavorableS lildren die off in them
ket country. Young s, owing to defective
the in great numoe ons, and to the igno-
nm sanitary precau S,dence of parents, and
ece rance and impr9y Eous elements of the
or the idle and bl ward crowded settle.
ex. population tenQ, ,)ne-half of the deaths
mt ments. Nearly occurred in the ten
bev in Massachuset he death-rate in them
the chief cities, and per cent. greater than
60 was more than State.
,oks in the rest OF the It's, as also throughout
;nds In MassachuseT Tnhealthies season of
that the country, the qason of midsummer.
mss the year is the s. he whole number of
are SSaths aathiIa ettsstes ettsste occurred { in the
to months of July, August, and September.
hay- The healthiest months were April, May,
airt. and June. The fewest deaths took
half place in June, and the greatest number
she in August. February came next to June
She in it's low mortality, and September
hill next to August in its high death rate.
with Experience shows that our bitterest
,me- winter cold is not an enemy to health at
ONE all to be compared with the heat OF the
doe-days, and that December, January,
)QQg anu roUIudIJ dlO dHOnS ono AN
man months in the year. In England, how
lvise ever, the season of greatest cold is the
yait- season of highest death rates.
Per. The deaths of females in Massachu-
ould sets in 1877 exceeded the deaths OF
IN in males, but this was due to the unfor-
old tunate fact that the number of females
get in that State is much greater than that
arry, of males. Ii, however, we calculate
her the rate of deaths per 1000 OF the llv-
Ts of ing of the two sexes, we find that the
nner mortality was greatest among the males,
And the rate being II 63 OF females to l8 AZ
y or of males Between the ages of ~ and
part. 80 female lives were more encroacneu
on than male lives, and at ages above 80
and between and 70 the mortality
among females was in marked excess.
According to universal experience, the
4 st. deaths of children under years were
from what went most to swell the mortality
IS to total in Massachusetts, for 1877. More
own. than fifth of all the deaths were those
fam of infants; more than third of the
four mortality fell on young children. But,
lady, numerous as these deaths were, they
.mily were less in proportion than in any
IS to year of the last decade, and the fact Is
cases proof of the better sanitary regulation
uollc of the State y
ms OF The ayeragsMse at which death oc-
g for Cured was about thirty years; but if we
~ to- omit the Young children it rises to a