Morning journal and courier., 1892-07-13

The average of deaths from tubercular
| diseases for the fifteen years-'76 to 80
distributed as to nationality are Irish
and Irish parentage 40, German 314,
German parentage go. English 80, Eng
| lish parentage 2. 4, native 33 0, negro 10 g.
The Irish and Irish parentage will be
seen to outrank all others in it's tuberculo-
sis death-rate; more than the negro and
more than double the native
New Haven Connecticut having as a
state one of the highest tubercular death
| rates) naturally has a high tubercular
| negro death rate. Throughout the whole
country, however, the negro rate is very
little higher than the native white. The
proportion of deaths among the negroes
under twenty years is, however, noticeably
large.
The death-rate for those of Irish parent
age is very much lower than for the Irish
born. Thus from our proportions were
the death-rate equal, for every 100 deaths
of Irish born we should expect about $40
deaths of Irish parentage. But as far as
our figures 60, we only get about 1876
deaths. The rate for the Irish parsntage
in spite of the high Irish rate, is less than
for the native class. It would be difficult
to explain this by the theory of heredity.
Change of climate, especially from 8
somewhat warm to a somewhat cold one,
undoubtedly is more or less favorable to
the development of consumption. Thus,
the native born negroes in this country, as
whole, have only a little higher death
rate than the whites; but negroes born in
Africa and transported to foreign coun-
tries die in great numbers from tuber-
culosis. For instance at Gibraltar, for a
period of nineteen to twenty years the
white tubercular death-rate per 1000 men
was 81; the negro 33.5. At Ceylon the
English white troops had a rate per 1000
men of a. 1; the negro troops of 1915.
Flick, in his pamphlet "The Contagious
ness of Phthisis," points out the various
points of similarity between tuberculosis
and other contagious diseases. The group
ing, the preference for certain localities
the progress about these localities in search
of favorable material, the movement from
house to house, are in both practically the
same. The writer regrets that he has not
had sufficient time to prepare a map of the
pneumonia cases for the fifteen Years in
question, for he feels very sure that such
a map would offer telling contrast to
the city map of tuberculosis
Flick found in his ward-map for twenty
five years that 33 per cent. of the houses
had had more than one case. In our
smaller map for fifteen years the per cent.
was found to be ~. This will undoubt
eddy increase.
How long house remains capable of
Injecting its tenants we cannot tell from
these statistics, for these deal only with
deaths. People may have become infected
and then have moved elsewhere, leaving,
however, supply of fresh infectious mat
ter behind them.
The usual rate of progress may be Illus
trated by few cases: Double house No. /,
side A, deaths, April, 1879, May, 1879, MAY.
1883, April, 1883, June, 1889, February,
1883; side B, August, 1888, May, 1885, Jan
uary, 1887. Double house No. 2, side A,
July, 1876, August, 1880, May, 1888; side B,
October, 1879, May, 1885, April, 1880.
Sometimes death from tuberculosis |
will be followed by succession of deaths
from meningitis"
We think that the accompanying maps
and tables go far to show that consump-
ton is epidemic in certain parts of the |
city; that in these parts there are many |
houses in which it is distinctly dangerous |
to live This danger is one which may be |
In great measure overcome. 1t mas /
been proved beyond doubt that the |
danger ceases when the air is not allowed /
to become contaminated with the dried \
sputum. This may be accomplished by the |
patients expectorating into vessels filled /
destroy the contents.
The poorer class of people may be much
helped in their struggle with this foe by
the passage of laws compelling certain
amount of ventilation in all dwelling
houses.
Two tables are appended to this part of
the work.
From table 1t will be seen that the
',4O1 deaths from tuberculosis and
are divided among the differ
ent nationalities as follows: