The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-30

FIo1OAo VIC udNc given dUOfo, d1u WHICH
have long been in use in this country
and England, were as follows:
Glasses OF Diseases 1878. 1877.
Total deaths from all 1905 26,203
Total Zymotic diseases. ............ 1855 S.042
Total constitutional diseases ...... 6.422 $500
Total local diseases. ...............1 0,1Y 9,720
Total developmental diseases ..... 1709 1916
It will be seen from this table that To-
cal diseases carried off the largest num-
Der of persons, and this is apt to be the,
rule in our communities when no cpl
demic prevails. The mortality stood
about one-third in proportion to the
whole, and this is very near the proper
ton which obtained throughout the
whole State of Massachusetts in 1877.
Ii the deaths from zymotic diseases fell
Off over 400 from the previous year, that
gain was more than offset by the in
crease in the deaths from other groups
of diseases, which was about 1900.
Though zymotic diseases as whole
were less fatal than in 1877, the deaths
from scarlet fever, which toward the
end of the year began to be alarmingly
prevalent, and from diphtheria, which
usually goes hand in hand with it, were
in excess of that year. The portion of
the city most infested by these terrible
scourges was the Nineteenth ward, and
the one least troubled by them was the
Fifteenth WARD, which was happily almost
entirely free from them.
AS throughout this whole region, and
elsewhere in climates analogous to ours,
the greatest enemy of human life in
New York last year was consumption,
which carried off ATT persons, against
4,O44 in 1877. The next most destruct-
i've disease was diarrhea, which, how
ever, caused considerably less mortality
than in 1877-2,964 against 1857. Next
in order came the diseases Of the brain
and nervous system, class of maladies
which the statistics of other communi-
ties show are increasing under the stress
of modern life, though undoubtedly al
lowance must be made for the fact that
doctors now include in that class affec-
tons which formerly were placed else
where. Of these diseases of all kinds
2,416 individuals died in New York last
year. Pneumonia followed closely after
with 2,271 deaths. The other most
fatal diseases were bronchitis, which
destroyed 1,240 lives; Brights disease,
1,155; heart diseases, 1,098-a gain of
more than 206 on 1877; scarlet fever,
1895, and diphtheria, 1,010.
We may note the almost entire alb
sence of smallpox from the city last
year. There were only two deaths from
it, the smallest number reported since
1924. This is something unparalleled
in the history of that odious disease
that city of above million of inhab-
itants should enjoy for a whole year a
substantial immunity from a contagious
malady which has been one of the worst
with which humanity has had to con-
tend. It affords proof of the efficiency
of vaccination.
Of the deaths from violence we are
glad to record falling-off from last
year. ,OO4 against 1926. There were
also fewer suicides-137 against 148:
and fewer deaths from drowniug--182
against. 1914. It is, however, painful to
| observe that there was an increased and
a large mortality from cancer 81 | against
| 495. Against this we can put the fact
that of the 27,005 deaths the very con
siderable number of 1000 we're of per
sons over 70 years of age. If we deduct
from the mortality that of children I'M
der years, which was 1854, and the
deaths from violence, suicide, drown
ing, sunstroke, and alcoholism, which
numbered 1 ,493, we find the percentage
of these deaths at ripe years to be about
one-eighth. So