Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-31

June IS usually one ot the healtn1eSt months in the year when there are comparatively few deaths from zymotic diseases, for the reason probably that the people are much more out of doors. Then the changeable spring weather that has played such sad havoc among the consumptives and the weakly generally and has been so favorable to all kinds of diseases of the air passages and res piratory system has given place to a warmer temperature and less fckle changes. This year. however, while the prevalence of lung and fatal levers have been less than has been the rule for the past few years, the lighter levers and especially influenza have been more than ordinarily common. Thus from Wilmington almost an epidemic of influenza
 is reported and many cases of throat trouble, and to a less degree the same, especially the ca tarrhal and throat troubles, is true generally. Whooping cough has been very prevalent in Hartford, Norwalk, Stafford Springs, New Hartford, Willimantic, Waterbury and in a portion of Ridgefeld, which indicates diffu- sion Scarlet fever ranks next. After marked decline and total disappearance in many places it has reappeared in considerable virulence. The table shows it's mortality in the cities. Two deaths are reported in Will limantic; seven cases, three fatal, are also re- ported from South Manchester; cases usually severe are reported from several towns in the southwestern part of the State. The indica- tions that the disease is spreading and is rather increasing.
 Diphtheria is less prevalent than in the spring, but shows a slight increase over last month. It still fingers in Hartford. The deaths, eight in number, are just double the total mortality in Bridgeport in 1883 from diphtheria though that city before the efficient sanitary work done of late used to report 75 T. r. TI- deaths reported from Willimantic, and cases usually of not very malig nant type are reported from eight towns. The prevalence of these diseases is un- usual for June, unless an epidem- ic exists. In most of the cases filthy con ditions are easily traceable. The over flow of filth from a soil pipe on the lower floor of three-story tenement house and a broken earthenware outlet pipe from the house to the sewer were associated with five deaths, and sink drainage percolating through @ cellar wall with two others; faulty plumb ing with the greater part of those in the cities
 Each month that reports are made of causes affords more or less clear instances of the relation between filth and diphtheria. So constantly has this been noted that the Massachusetts State Board of Health in re cent circular affirm that diphtheria can be caused by filth directly without any connec- tion with preceding case.
 Diarrhoeal diseases have not been as preva- lent as as indicated by their early appear ance. Several cases of sudden death, both in children and adults, have been reported death ensuing twenty-four and thirty-six hours after seizure. A few cases of dysen- tery have been reported, but only in one To- cality.
 Malarial diseases are reported increasing in the southwestern part of the State and along the valley of the Connecticut. Fevers intermittent and remittent are reported from Tariffyille, while the month is declared to have been the healthiest of the last twelve, with little other sickness. A similar report is made from Oxford, that is, no sickness except an increase in malarial disease Typho-malarial fever is also reported in sev- eral cases.
 In general the history of the month has not been as unfavorable to health as the average, while more so than is the case usual ly in June. Cheshire reports one death only, Granby but three, one from old age. Had dam is reported unusually healthy, and whooping cough and measles as the only dis eases prevalent in Stafford Springs. Ridge field is pronounced unusually free from dis ease, and the same, with the exception of malarial diseases, could be said of several places.
 prominent for June. Thus New Haven re- ports 23 deaths, 16 from convul- sions, and in many towns cases of meningitis and cerebro-spina1 meningitis are reported. These are all in the part of the State where malaria has long been prevalent. That there is some causal relation in case of cerebro-spinal meningitis is more than probable. The relation to nervous dis eases in general is quite constant.
 A fatal case of sunstroke is reported from Waterbury; one not fatal from Somers, while instances of persons overcome by the heat or partial sunstroke were oftener mentioned. The table indicates an unusual number of ac- cidental deaths. To these must be added two from South Manchester, one from drown ing, one from broken back.