Morning journal and courier., 1890-08-19
JrLv MORTALITY.

. | Death Rate in Connecticut-Tota1 of I,3OO Deaths During the Four | Weeks. The total number of deaths reported in this state during the month of July was 300. This was 392 more than in June, and 29 less than in July of last year, and % less than the average mortality in July for the five years preceding the present. The death rate was % 8 for the large towns; for the small towns 17.6, and 21.2 for the whole state. The deaths from zymotic diseases were 495, being 3s per cent. of the total mortality against 17.6 per cent. in June The increased percentage is due to the excessive mortali- ty from diarrhea. The following infec- tious diseases were reported to the office as occurring in the towns mentioned: La grippe, Portland, 1 death; measles, Bridge port, Canaan, Greenwich, Lyme, Salem, Stamford, Stonington, 4 deaths; scarlet fever, Ansonia, Bridgeport, Watertown, Windham, deaths; cerebro-spinal fever, Derby, Hartford, Manchester, New Ha- ven, Norwalk, Seymour, Simsbury, Somers, Sufield, Thomaston, Torrington, Wallingford, Winchester, 1S deaths; diphtheria and croup, Ansonia, Berlin, Bridgeport, Brooklyn, Canaan, Colebrook, East Hartford, Glastonbury, Griswold, London, Norwalk, Norwich, Seymour | typhoid fever, Bloomfield, Hebron, Hunting ton, Hartford, Middletown, Naugatuck, New Britain, New Haven, New London, 1 Stamford, Stonington, Waterbury, IS deaths. Diarrhna is reported as prevalent in one-half of the towns in the state, and l 65 towns report fatal cases Total nor tality 390. Acute diseases of the lungs only 43 fatal cases. The mortality in public in stitutions of the state were In BridGe- port 6, in Hartford 15, in Middletown 12, and in New Haven H. These are de- ducted from the total mortality of their respective towns in estimating the death rates. The following towns are reported as having no deaths in July: Andover, Beacon Falls, Bolton; Bozrah, Bridge water, Chaplin, Eastford, East Gran by, East Haven, Goshen, Har- winton, Killingworth, Lisbon, Mid. dlefield, Morris, Newington, Nor folk, North Bradford, North Canaan Pomfret, Salem, Holland, Union, Warren Washington, Weston, 26. The registrars of all the towns have made report fol July.
 The state board has made, through Pro lessor H. E. Smith of the Yale medica school, very careful investigation of tn, epidemic of typhoid fever occurring a Waterbury in June last and has just pub lished Dr. Smiths report.
 It adds one more to the many well-de termined instances of typhoid fever epi
 denies caused by milk infection.
 The numerous instances now on recort
 of the spread of typhoid fever by ipfecte'
 milk, which have been clearly traced t.
 that source, leaves no doubt whatever tha the disease can be communicated in tha ) way.
 The practical lesson it teaches is tn
 importance of much greater care than ordinarily observed in all matters pertain
 ing to milk production.
 Typhoid fever is not the only diseas
 which may be spread by milk. The ir
 fectious germs of other diseases, it is be
 lieved, when gaining access to milk wi
 grow in it, and be multiplied, and con municate the infection to those wh n use the milk so infected.
 @ Epidemics of scarlet fever and of dipl T theria have many times been traced to il fected milk. It is also now well know
 that the milk of tuberculous cows
 charged with the bacilli tubercul,
 sis, which is the essential cause of u
 most fatal of human diseases-pulmonal | consumption