San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-02-04
SANITARY REPORT OF HEALTH
DEPARTMENT.
Official Health Statistics Compiled
by DIR. R. Menger, City
Physician:

During January there were reg
istered 81 death certificates at the
health office. or these deaths So
were whites and II colored; y
were males and % females 33 were
born in Texas, Is in Mexico, in
Germany, 3 in Ireland, l in France,
l in Italy, l in China, and 80 in
different parts of the United States.
Twenty were under l year old; 6
from to 10 years 6 from 10 to 20;
IL from 20 to 30; 16 from 30 to 40;
from 40 to 80; Is from 80 to 60; 5
from 60 to 20; 5 from 20 to 80, 2
from so to 80, and | from 90 to 90
years. Four physicians certificates
did not state the age.
The following were the causes Of
death: Consumption, DC; pneu-
monia,(3 children D; heart trouble,
D; paralysis, I; commissions, a
children) 6; influenza, ola grippe"D
3; typhoid fever, ,; kidney
! (Brights disease, 2 /; oedeme Of lungs,
2; meningitis, ,; typho-malarial
fever, 2; inanition, ,; preme-
ture birth, 3; stillborn =;
old age I; uraemic commissions,
c5rebro spinal meningitis,can of
laryn and lungs, cOnjestiOn of brain,
chronic bronchitis and hemorrh-
ages, diabetes, septicaemia, malar-
ial fever and malnutrition, cere-
bral hemorrhage, diphtheria, cero-
bral fever, albuminuria, bronchi-
tbs, syphilis, rheumatic heart
trouble, abdominal tumor, ovarian
tumor, burn wounds, carbolic acid
poisoning puerperal fever, natural
causes Gnquests) 2.
According to the different wards
of the city, there died in the First
ward 3; Second ward, IL, Third
ward, 25; Fourth ward, l6; Fifth
ward, 8; Sixth ward, ID; Seventh
ward, 8; Eighth ward, 3. Eight
death certificates did not give the
number of ward. Among the
deaths recorded 30 were non resi-
dents; 6 died in the City Hospital :;
in San Rosa hospital 3 in Coun-
ty hospital; 2 in county jail; 8
were buried by the city; IL were
shipped to other places for burial.
There existed much sickness and
distress among the poor families
Of our city during January; most
sickness being caused by exposure,
inadequate clothing, malnutrition,
damp and unventilated dwellings,
filthy and unsanitary surround
ings, although the sanitary in
spectors have ordered the premises,
especially in the lst, 2nd, 3rd and
4th wards, 20 be cleaned and kept
clean). In general, our health sta
tistics compare very favorably with
others, considering the large poru-
lation of our city and the large in
fiuX OF people Of all classes and
nationality, and the city was fortu-
nate in the past two years to have
been kept free Of such loathsome
diseases as smallpox, Of which we
had only six cases at different
periods in tho two years, and these
were by immediate and rigid iso-
lation of the cases and compulsory
vaccination kept immune from in
fecting the surrounding pOpulace
and causing an epidemic. But we
must have, and the city council is
considering the need of hospital
for contagious diseases at an early
date.
In January there we're vac
cinated $40 children of the public
schools, according to the number
OF vaccine points used by the city
in the past month. There were
filled 434 prescriptions at the hos
pital dispensary, including Al pre-
scriptions for Jail patients and 1S7
prescriptions for outdoor patients,
besides about so for emergency
cases at drug stores.
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