The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1894-01-12
NEWS AND NOTES

Frank II. Clark, of Windsor, has been
appointed deputy collector and inspector
of customs and " i'll be stationed at New.
port the first of February.
The vital statistics of Burlington show
eight marriages, 30 births, and 20 dealt S
in the city during the month of Deem
Der. OF the births 10 were males and IL
were females, with one colOred. There
was one pair of twins among the number.
Six Of the births were in ward two, eigl {
in ward three. four in ward four, al
eleven in ward five. OF the deaths II
were a'es and Is females. Ten were
under year of age, four between | and
3, three between 20 and 80, fou between
so and 10, six over 20, aud two over 50.
-Four died in ward 2, - in ward three,
three i'll ward -four, eight in ward five,
and one was drowned in Lake Cham
plain. There were three deaths from old
age, two each from apoplexy, broHcho
pneumonia, capillary bronchitis, cOnvul-
slons, premature birth, scarlatina and
still birth, and one each from cancer,
cancer of liver, congestion of brain, con
genital debility, drowning, exhaustion,
result of fractured hip, heart failure, la
Grippe, nerve exhaustion at menepause,
phthisis, pneumonia, and tuberculosis.
OF contagious diseases, 26 eases were re-
ported during the month. There were
~ OF Scarlatina and one each of diphthe.
ria, typhoid fever, and varicella.
The vital statistics of the town of Mont
pelier for the year just closed present
some intere' ting figures: Whole num-
Der of deaths, 69-all but six occurring
in the village. Sex-33 males, SO fe-
males. Number of deaths in each month
january, 10; February, 10; March, 3;
April, g.; May, 8; June, 8; July, 6; AT
gust, 2; September, 4; October, 4; No
vember, 81 December, 4. Diseases-ap-
oplexy, s; pneumonia, 4 consumption,
Z; heart failure, 6; Bright's disease, @;
accident, 8; cancer, A.; cerebro-spinal
meningitis, 4; cholera infantum, 4;
dropsy 4; infantile disease, 3; old age,
3; blood poisoning, p; suicide, Il other
causes, 3; no deaths from diphtheria.
ASes-under one year, 10; between one
and two, q; five and ten, / ten and fif-
teen, /; fifteen and twenty, 2; twenty and
twenty-five, 4; twenty-five and thirty, 3;
thirty and thirty-tive, 3; thirty-fve and
forty, 2; forty and forty-five, q; forty
five and fifty, 3; fifty and fifty five, 3 :;
fifty-tive and sixty, 4; sixty and sixty
five, 3; sixty-tive and seventy, 6; seventy
and seventy FIVE, s.; seventy-fve and
eighty, 4; eighty and eighty. five, 7;
eighty-five and ninety, /; aged ninety
four years and eleven months, /. The
average age of all was forty-fve years;
the average age of the eighteen Oldest
(all over seventy, eighty years. Twenty
seven were males and twenty-five were
females over twenty-one years of age.
OF these, Is were husbands, u were
wives, 2 were widowers, and five were
widows. Mortuary statistics for the
past five years: 1892, 10 dcatbs-aver-
age age, 80 years; 1891, ia deaths; 1890,
1876 deaths; 1889, 81 deaths; 1853 7S
deaths. The average for these five years
was 1902 deaths. In all these statistics,
deaths occurring on the Berlin side are
not included. Notwithstanding the
great increase of population of hontpe-
Tier during the past six years, these sta
tistics show falling off in the death
rate for the year 1892 of thirty-three per
cent, as compared with the average of
five previous years. 1t is interesting to
note that the total number of deaths, 90,
is the smallest number for the past six
years.