Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-20
THE JULY HEALTH REPORT.

over 600 Dead Children In she state.
The registrars of Bolton and Washington
were the only delinquents In furnishing Of
fcial reports to the State board of health.
The deaths reported from the 16S towns dur
ing July were 1920 representing an annual
death rate of 81 per 1000. The highest rate
was in Stamford, whore AZ deaths were re.
ported, representing an annual rate Of $50.
Twenty Ave Of these were under Eve years.
New Britain IL second, with SO deaths, rate
of S2.2. Thompson stands third with ID
deaths, rate of 30.5. Hartford shows a
rate of 24.2; New London, 25.7; Vernon and
windham each 2s.s; Waterbury, 24.4; Derby
1854; Ansonia, 24.4; Bridgeport, 1856; New
Haven 20.
The following towns are reported as hav-
ing no deaths In July: Andover, Avon,
Beacon Falls, Bethany, Bethlehem, Bozrah,
Bridgewater, Easton, Goshen, Haddam, Kill
lingworth, Lebanon, Lyme, Morris, New
fairfield, Norfolk, Plymouth, Prospect, Sa-
lem, Sherman, Sprague, Sterling, Union,
Voluntown, Wellington, Wolcott-26.
The number of deaths was twenty. seven
more than the July average for the past four
years.
The following infectious diseases were re-
ported from the towns mentioned:
Scarlet Fever-Bridgeport, Danbury, Falls Vii
lage New Haven, Norwalk and Redding-4 deaths.
Measles-Brdgeport, Falls Village, Meriden, New
Hartford, Norwalk, Plainville, Waterford and VIII
tonic deaths.
Cerebro.Spinal Fever-Bistol, East Haven, Filing.
ton, HARTFORD, Lisbon, sunieid and windham-7
deaths.
Diphthcria and croup-Ausonia, Bridgeport,
Clinton, Last Hartford, Glastonbury, Hartford,
Meriden, New Haven, New London, Portland, Put
nam, Thompson, Waterbury and West Hartford
whooping cough-Bridgeport, Darien. Hartford.
Meriden, New Haven, West Brook and Woodbury.
Typhoid Fever Bristol, Cromwell, Danbury,
Groton, Hartford, Manchester, Naugatuck New
Haven, Newtown, North Canaan Seymour, STAN
ford, stonington, sufiiels, westport and Windsor
and fatal In Bridgeport, Meriden New Britain,
Stamford, Torrington, Vernon, Waterbury and
An epidemic of dysentery was reported at Plain
Vile
KILLING THE BABIES.
OF the 1,329 deaths for the month, 602
were of children under FIVE years of age. DR..
Lindsey, the secretary, in his reports treats
of the connection between ''infantile diarrhpa
and infant feeding.' He says it ia not the
high temperature of summer together with
improper food that causes the so called ''sum-
NOR complaint" The chief cause ia that the
baby's food is kept where disease germs, de-
veloped by high temperature, can contani-
mate it. And as sample of very common
practices which should be carefully avoided
he gives the following:
RULE FOR GIVING AN INFANT THE SUMMER
COMPLAINT.
Expose Its food before feeding for an hour
In any kind of an open dish in dirty
kitchen sink-quicker, if there is pipe
from the sink to cesspool; or in a foul
celler In which there are decayiDg vegsta-
bles, or in an ill-ventilated pantry to which
the eftluvis and the flies from q neighboring
privy vault have free access. 1t will not
matter whether the food be cows milk, or
goats milk, or asses milk, or condensed
milk, or any Of the patented prepared foods
In the market; they all afford good vehicle
by which these disease germs may reach the
babies bowels and set up therein an intes-
tine war.