Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-17
HEALTH OF THE STATE.
Abstract From the Monthly Repor
 Of The Board of Health.

Abstract From the Monthly Report
 Of The Board of Health.
 There were 925 deaths in Connecticut in the month of June; this was less than in May; it was 115 more than in June, 1888; ahd S5 more than the average number of deaths in June for the four years preceding the present. In the first half of this year the number of deaths was 401 less than in the first half of 1888 and 72 less than the average of the first half of the four years preceding.
 The death rate was 157 in June for the large towns; for the small ones 1924 and IA, 6 for the whole state. Waterbury's death rate was 13.4. The deaths from zymotic diseases numbered 1S7 and were 2O.2 per cent of the total mortality as against 13. [ per cent in May.
 Measles, cerebro-spinal fever, diphtheria and whooping cough were little more fatal than in the previous month. Typhoid fever had 13 deaths in each month, but consumption had 130 victims against 119 in May, while pneumonia had only one half as many, viz: S2 in May and Al in June.
 There was a marked increase in diarrhua] diseases during June. This has been ob- served as an inevitable accompaniment of increased temperature and especially in Guo C1IloS. 1u0 Iuodu LeupoTdturo TOT June was nearly eight degrees higher than in May, and the relative humidity also considerably greater, both of which con ditions become strong factors in causing disease amid filthy surroundings, though Comparatively inert where hygienic con ditions are otherwise good.
 Diphtheria has prevailed quite exten- sively in New Haven during the month 30 cases were reported to the health board and two were fatal.
 ABANDONED BY HER HUSBAND Sad Circumstances Surrounding the r. Death of Mrs Ida IT. Davis. |. The Hartford Telegram Record of yes terday said: 1.-The only record made o1 the death of Ida H. Davis is found in the office of the registrar of vital statistics rShe was 30 years old, the mother of fou1 children and an honest, industrious woman who had been deserted by her husband land relatives. She died at the hospital last Wednesday, and through friends in this city was buried in the family lot in Evergreen cemetery, New Haven, beside two of her children, Saturday. Mrs Davis came from Waterbury some time ago and lived in Elmwood with he1 husband, William H. Davis, who was em- ployed in Hartford. The husband desert ed her and she came to this city and placed her four children in the orphan asy. lum and found employment with Mrs c. 'J. Heath, dressmaker at No IS Pratt street and boarded with Edward Collins, No i Riverside Place. All attempts to find her husband failed, and nothing was heard of him until April ?, when he wrote letter to his wife from Waterbury enclosing a dollar bill, saying that was all the money he could give her. On April 9Mrs Davis was taken sick with peritonitis and went to the hospital. She languished on sick bed until last Monday when she had re- covered sufficiently to pay visit to Mir Collins. She appeared quite we'll and re turned to the hospital expecting to be dis charged in few days. She suffered re- lapse and died Wednesday,"