Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-17
HEALTH OF THE STATE.

summary or Vital Statistics TOT lS9O.
 Dr. c. A. Lindsley, secretary of the State board of health and superintendent of vital statistics, says in his report for August just issued:
 In addition to the regular report of nor tality, the office is in receipt of twenty two other reports from sanitary cores
 pondents in various parts of the state, re-
 lating to the sickness prevailing in the
 places from which they are received.
 The towns so reporting are: Avon,
 Bridgeport, Bloomfield, East Haddam,
 Falls Village, Greenwich, Griswold, Gull
 ford, Hartford, New Hartford, New Ha-
 ven, Newtown, Norwalk, Orange, Rocky Hill, Salem, Suf6eld, Thomaston, West port, Wethersfeld, Williamantic.
 The mortality report for August has ticut. There were 1,24S deaths reported in the state during the month. This was 51 less than in July; it was 32 less than in August, 1890, and 30 less than the aver age number of deaths in August for the five years preceding the present. The death rate was 21.1 IA for the large towns; for the small towns 17.3, and 20.1 for the whole state.
 The deaths from zymotic diseases were 456, being 36.5 per cent. of the total nor tality against 36.2 per cent. in July. The following infectious diseases were reported to this office as occurring in the towns mentioned:
 Measles -Haddam-no deaths.
 sesrlet fsyeELBridgeports +s;, Grisw9la %Ia N0ruuo1GY 0ranna Th0ppaSton Westport-6 deaths.
 Cerebro-spinal fever-Ansonia, Bridge port, Cheshire, Griswold, Guilford, Hart ford, Huntington, Middletown, New Ha l ven, Newtown, North Haven, Waterbury -16 deaths.
 Diphtheria and croup-Branford,B Bridge. port, Canaan, Danbury, East Hartford Hartford, Huntington, New Britain, New
 Haven, Norwalk, Simsbury, Waterbury Westport-25 deaths.
 l Typhoid dfever-Ansonia, Bloomfield, Boz rah, Branford, Bristol, Danbury, Hartford East Lyme, Huntington, Killingworth, Old Saybrook, Ledyard, Middletown, ,Norwalk, New Britain, New Haven, Preston, Ridge field, Bedding, Salem, Salisbury, Stamford Southington, Union, Vernon, Wallingford, Waterbury, Windham-42 deaths. The total mortality in the state would indicate some improvement in the genera
 health, the number of deaths being 51 less
 than in July.
 The following diseases were less fata
 than in July: Measles, scarlet fever, cry sipelas, malarial fever, diarrh@al diseases pneumonia and bronchitis. While there was an increase of deaths from diphtheris l and particularly from typhoid fever, o1
 which there were 42 deaths against only in July.
 The reports from our correspondents 1T | various parts of the state indicate gener | ally greater prevalence of typhoid. From
 Danbury it is reported that 9 cases oc
 cured among some persons who had beer | temporary residents of Money Island, ont
 of the group of Thimble Islands in Long l Island sound, off Branford. l A little outbreak of Impetigo Contagiosa
 a skin disease, usually of temporary dura- tion, is reported as happenings among the l patrons of one of the most popular barbe shops in the state. The victims are at thi
 writing mostly convalescent. | SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS FOR 1890 The following is 8 general summary O the births, marriages, and deaths in Con | necticut in the year 1890: