The record-union., 1891-12-14
HEALTH OF THE STATE.
Report of the state Board of Health fc
the Month of November.

Report of the State Board of Health for
the Month of November.
DR.. J. r. Laine, Secretary of the State
Board of Health, in his report of the san
itary condition and mortality of the State
during November, says:
Mortality reports from 100 cities, towns,
villages and localities, having an aggre-
gate population of 739, ,577, show the total
number of deaths from all causes in No
vember to have been 1,099, making a
death rate of AT per 1000 for the month,
or 17.64 per l 600 per annum.
There were us deaths due to consump-
ton, 76 to acute pneumonia, 80 to acute
bronchitis, to congestion of the lungs
l8 to diarrhea and dysentery, IA to chol-
era infantum, 46 to other diseases of the
stomach and bowels, 30 TO diphtheria, %
to Group, 5 TO scarlatina, 2 to measles, 4 to
whooping-c cough, 81 to typhoid fever, 5 to
malarial tevers, 4 to cerebro-spinal fever,
IS to cancer, 50 to heart diseases, II to
alcoholism and AL to all other causes.
PREVAILING DISEASES.
Reports from 81 localities outside of the
large cities give 10 cases of cholera NOR
bus, % of cholera infantum, l6S of diarr-
hea, SO of dysentery, 45 of measles, 63 of
scarlatina, 80 of diphtheria, IL of Group,
l32 of whooping cough, 25 of erysipelas, 2
of typhus fever, Sc OF typhoid fever, 2l3 of
II.
76 of rheumatism, 140 of pneumonia, ii of
pleurisy, 235 of bronchitis, Is of conges-
tion of the lungs, 6 of enteritis, 13 of
nephritis, lis of tonsilitis, 20 of neuralgia,
and 449 of la grippe.
REMARKS.
A mild type of scarlatina prevailed
quite generally throughout the State.
there being but five fatalities reported.
Whooping cough has been reported as
pDidapnin in SaUoral localities n;sooco.
of the respiratory organs have been very
numerous; also diseases of the stomach
and bowels. These may in the majority
of cases be attributed to the quite general
prevalence of la grippe, 449 cases of which
were reported. 1t was reported as epi
demic in fifteen localities, where the
number of cases were not given. 1t is
reported as being very frequently asso-
ciated with bronchitis and pneumonia.
rheumatism and neuralgia have been
quite generally prevalent.
No cases of smallpox have been known
to exist in the State for several months,
and the entire United States has been
cutie free from this dreaded malady dur
ing the year. The Province of Quebec
has, however, had l35 cases, all arising
from one person that started the con-
tagion. During November it has been
reported in New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Tennessee and Texas. II will
doubtless be controlled as far as practi-
cable, but all efforts in that direction have
il the past proven of no avail where un-
yaccinated people have been exposed to
the disease. 1t is quite as likely to leap
across the continent as to leap from
Quebec TO Texas, and this likelihood
should be a sufficient warning for those
who are unprotected To be vaceinated
without delay. There should also be a more
strict compliance with the law denying
admittance TO unvaccinated children in
the public schools. This should be done
without exciting unnecessary alarm, but
the necessity for such action should be
generally understood, and be insisted
upon, especially in the schools.
The weather averaged warmer than
usual in November in all districts west
of the Rockies.