Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-31
HEALTH IN CoNNEoTTCUT.

Interesting Facts From she Annual
0mclal Report.
In the annual report of the State board of
health for the year ending June 80, 1887,
(forty- six pages) the secretary, DR.. @. A.
Lindsey of New Haven, reports that the
mortality during the year was greater than
that of any preceding year for several years.
The last official census of the State gave a
population of 622, 7e0. The estimated popu-
lation of the State in 1885 was 715, 1929; being
an increase in six years of 92,629. AS the
registered natural increment in the aggregate
is not one-fourth of that number, it is quite
obvious that immigration is much the larger
mode of increase.
The births and deaths registered in the
year number respectively Il, 1881 and II ,618,
SO that the natural increment or excess of
births over deaths was 4,319. This is q
marked difference as compared with the
previous year. when the natural increment
was only 8, 463, an advantage in favor of 1886
of $3.50.
The average natural increment for the ten
years previous was 3,902.2 per year, by the
excess of births over deaths.
1 But for the decade preceding that, the
average increment per year was 4, $685..
l The largest natural increment of popula,
/ ton during the past twenty years was il
| 1874, and equalled SSH; the smallest was
in 1852, and equalled 3,916.
| There are AZ towns in the State II
which from the records it appears thu
deaths were more than the births. o.
New Haven county, 8 in New LondoI
l county, 8 in Fairfield, z in Windham, il
Litchfeld, in Middlesex, and 2 in Tol
land. There were II other towns in which
the number of births and deaths registered
| were equal, of which 1 was in New Haver
| county, 8 in New Londen, 2 in Fairfield, 2 IL
l Litchfield and in Tolland county, making 6
| total of So towns out of the 1877 in the State
4 in which the records show no natural increase
| in the population, but in AZ of which there
| was a natural loss. The loss in these towns
by the excess of deaths over births amounted
4 in the aggregate to 265. Hence the gain OF
| 4, 31S by natural increment occurred wholly
4 in 100 of the towns of the State
There were by the estimated population
| viz, 715, 1929, 1927 births to the 1000, 7.6S
| marriages to the 200, 1928 deaths to the
1, o00-6.04 excess of births over deaths.
The daily average of the movement of the
population was: Daily average of births
average of marriages $50, daily average o.
deaths 31.8, daily average natural incre
l ment 11.6.
There were more births in 1886 than il
| the previous year, but net more than the in
creased population would demand; in fac
the birth rate per thousand was slightly lesl
| than in the year before, being 49,
as against % Sc. The total mortality was
less than in the previous year, notwith
standing the increase of population, SO that
the death rate was markedly bettel
than in the year before, being 1928 al
\ against 1850.
The investigation of pollution of streams
by sewage and refuse from manufactures il
reported at length, together with chemical
analysis of the waters. The organization Of
local boards of health is reported defective
l and DIR. Lindsey calls attention to the apathy
1 which is shown in some smaller towns to any
1 attempt to improve the sanitary condition
The necessity of such measures is pointed ou
| and emphasized by numerous extended re
ports of the benefits to the public healtl
which have resulted by careful and scientific
Investigations and remedies in places OUTSIDE
this State