Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-02
The Health of the State.
The Report for January-Catarrh,C Col
 and RrOnchftfs,

The Report for January-CatarrHl, Colds
 and Bronchitis.
 The report of the State board of health for | January says: ssThe death rate of January, | 1888, compares unfavorably with that of the | same month for the three preceding years. The prevalence of scarlet fever in many places increases the death rate, to which also l pneumonia contributes more than the usual proportion, although usually one of the prom inent diseases of the month. Catarrhal dis eases, colds, and the milder forms of bron- chitis have been unusually prevalent; the changeable weather probably induces care- lessness. There have also been quite num- Der of cases of co-pneumonia, so called, which begins as a case of bronchitis, often not severe and giving no indications of danger
 until symptoms of severe type of lung fever supervene without warning, often
 involving both lungs and terminating fatally.
 This is an insidious and dangerous disease.
 In Hartford scarlet fever was followed by
 diphtheria and croup, which have been very fatal There have been no deaths from
 typhoid fever nor from malarial diseases in
 Hartford indeed malarial diseases are ap- parently decreasing quite rapidly in this i'm mediate vicinity. The mild winter, however, is favorable for an increase when warm weather ensues.
 
 almost if not quite epidemic, causing ten deaths, which indicates either much greater prevalence than the same number of deaths would in most diseases, for 1t is seldom fatal, or else an unusually severe type Measles
 have also been very prevalent here, and also
 in several towns in that region. There have
 been few cases in Hartford. This has been an unfavorable month for all lung diseases. The mortality from consumption is also con- paratively large
 PREVALENCE or SCARLET FEVER. Scarlet fever has been prevalent quite ex tensively in Hartford while'it has decreased very decidedly during the month in New Britain and Meriden, also in Middletown; it
 has apparently just reached New Haven, which reports but four deaths although there had been occasional cases from time to time. It has extended over considerable territory and the cases have been quite numerous. The type has been apparently much more severe in the cities where the sanitary conditions of the children would naturally be worse in many instances. It is reported as still preva- lent in Suffield, but commencing to decrease half the estimated number of cases that there were in December, when it was epi- denic and the cases severer. It is also re- ported from Plainville, Avon, North and South Manchester, Talcottville, Stafford, South Britain, Haddam, Hampton and Anso- | mia. It is apparently advancing, as new ter ritory is reported each month.
 RAvAGES BY THE MEASLES.
 Measles have been unusually prevalent in Thomaston, where there has been sweep l ing epidemic. Over fifty cases were report ! ed in January. Bronchial complications | were frequent. It has not been unusually ] fatal, but few deaths are reported anywhere It has been prevalent in New Haven and
 Ansonia and many towns in the southwestern l part of the State, often, as in New Haven
 and Ansonia, accompanied with whooping l cough. Measles are also reported from South l Manchester, Plainville and Plymouth.