Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-19
VITAL STATISTICS.
Births and Deaths in the State for 1880
Mortality in Cities OF Over 900 Popuia-
tion-Diseases Producing the Greatest
Mortality In ST. Paul.

Births and Deaths in the State for 1880
Mortality in Cities OF Over 900 Popuia-
tion-Dissases Producing the Greatest
Mortality In St. Paul.
Mr.. F. S. Christensen, assistant secretary of
state, and commissioner OF statistics, has COM
pleted .his tables of births and deaths In the
state for the year 1880. and death causes in
cities of over 5000 inhabitants. In his intro
duction to the tables, the commissioner says:
1.-THE last report of the vital statistics, for
the year 1879, was the ninth in number made
by the commissioner of statistics, and the
present one, for 1880, would thus be the tenth,
but owing to the loss of the county
returns in the fire which, on March list, 1881,
destroyed the state capital, this report must
of necessity be very incomplete. AS the COM
missioners had no way of paying the clerks of
court for duplicate reports, it was decided to
cded to give the totsls for each county only,
which were readily obtained without remun-
Grafton, and in addition thereto full report
If all cities having population of over 5 900,
was secured by the courtesy of the clerks of
court, for the respective counties in which
these cities are located.
THE TOTALS.
Total births, 1880. 25,30O
Total deaths, 1880. Observation-Disclosures. $500
Excess OF births. 49,. IL, 49S
fetal births, 1879. .23, IA
Total deaths, 1879. Observation-Disclosures. S,777
Excess of births. IA ,699
Excess of births in 1880 over 1879. ....... .801
DEATHS IN CITIES.
The cities in the state having population
of over 5000 are st. Paul, Minneapolis. Wi
mona, Saltwater, Red Wing, Mankato, Fari-
bault and Rochester, in which the total deaths
during 1880 were 2,117, or more than one-fifth
of the total deaths in the whole state, which
are given at $500. Minneapolis leads all other
cities in the number of deaths, there having
been 7s6 during the year, 427 males, $50 fe-
males. St. Paul comes next with total of
700, 4l2 males, 2SS females. Winona shows
total of 174, Saltwater ia, Red Wing 11S,
Mankato sixty-seven, Faribault eighty-two,
and Rochester seventy-slx. The greatest NOR
tality in st. Paul and Minneapolis any one
month was in Jnly, when there were liz
Paul leading Minneapolis by sixteen, notwith-
standing the fact that Minneapolis leads st.
Paul in the number of deaths for the year BY
eighty-six. In Winona the greatest mortality
occurred during the months of November and
December, nineteen each month; lat Still.
water in August, twenty-five; at Red Wing in
November, sixteen; at Mankato in January,
eleven; at Farlbault and Rochester in
August, fourteen in the first named
city and eleven in the latter
ST. PAUL.
In st. Paul, the total deaths from zymotic
diseases were 1S9; constitutional diseases, 1875;
local diseases, 1856; developmental diseases;
4 of ,;ol,
suicides, two Americans and seven foreigners,
and two nationality not reported. The great
est mortality was covered by cholera infan-
tum, eighty-one, of which number all save
one was under two years of age. The next
greatest was from infantile debility, seventy
two. Consumption claimed sixty-nine vic
tins, the largest number between the ages of
twenty and thirty, the next largest number
between the ages of thirty and forty. Deaths
from commissions come next, with thirty
two, 90 of which were under two years
of age, the remaining three being under five
years. Diptheria is next, with twenty-seven
deaths, nine under two years, five under five
and over two, seven under ten and over five,
one under fifteen and over ten, two under
twenty and over fifteen, two under thirty and
over twenty, and one under sixty and over fifty.
There were twenty-six deaths from hydro
cephalus, of which twenty-four were under
two years of age, and two between the ages of
two and five years. Brain diseases caused the
death of eighteen persons, while thirty-seyen
deaths are reported as the result of typhoid |
fever, seventeen of which occurred between |
the ages of twenty and thirty. The deaths |
from all causes in st. Paul two years and
under were 290; over two and under five, |
thirty-tive; over five and under ten, twenty
six; over ten aud under fifteen, seventeen; over
fifteen and under twenty, thirty-one; over
twenty and under thirty, eighty-one; oyer
thirty and under forty, seventy-two; over
forty and under fifty, thirty-nine; over fifty
and under sixty, forty-one; over sixty and I'M |
der seventy, thirty-three; over seventy, thirty
three; ages not reported, four.