The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-13
RECORD OF DEATHS
The Annual MOrtuary Report Has
Just Been Completed.
A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT
Although the Dynamite Explosion
Occurred I'm 1895 There We're
Two More Deaths in 1904
Causes and Social Standing.

The annual mortuary report for 1896
has just been completed by Acting City
City Physician Evans, and it will be filed
with the city clerk to-day. DR.. j. w.
Gum was health officer from January to
May and DIR. o. b. whitford. the present
incumbent, from May to December. There
were AGA burial permits issued during 1895,
but the death rate was only 44O, as there
were "a still-births, which are not in
cluded in the death rate. Although the
dynamite explosion greatly increased the
death rate in 1895, there were two deaths
less during that year than in 1884. The
following shows the comparative mortal
ity by months:
1s94-January. IS: February, 81 March,
26; April, rs; May. rs; June. 80; July, "a;
August. "a; September, 80; October, Al;
November, 80; December, As; total, 442.
1S95-January, 70; February. Is; March,
43; April, 43; May, 80; June, 20; July. So;
August. 30; September. "a; October. 81;
November, %; December, IL; total. 44O.
The deaths which occurred during 1895
were due to the following causes:
Notwithstanding, II: explosion, So;
killed by horse. /; railroad, s; burns, Il;
gunshot, l; street car, /; crushed leg, l.;
fell from bridge, 5: run over by wagon, l.;
knife wound, 1; other accidents, 5; as
phyxiation, /; ascites, /; abscess in
throa, /; appendicitis, 1; angina pectoris,
2; apoplexy, L; bronchitis, u; bronchitis
cap, s.; broncho-pneumonia, 8; burns, q;
bright's disease, 3: blood poisoning, l.:
commissions. infant. 6; commissions, 81;
consumption, Is; cancer, rectal, l: cancer.
of stomach. 3; cancer, 4; Group, 1; cere-
bretis, 1; congestion of lungs. 2; cirrihosis
Of liver, 2: cystitis. 1; cardiac affection. l.:
cholera infantum, 10; cold, g. dropsy, l.:
diarrhoea, L; difficult labor, 2; debility.
/: diphtheria, 2: DYSPEPSIA, /: cause of
death not stated, 4: erysipelas, 4; enter
tits, 6; exhaustion. /; enda peri carditis,
2; entero colitis. 2; scarlet fever. Z; ty-
phoid fever. 10; mountain fever, /: puer-
peral fever. i; frozen, l; castro enteritis,
2; neuralgia of the heart, 3; heart disease.
I; heart failure. 8; hypertrophy of the
heart, /; hystero-epilepsy. 1; hydrocepha-
lus. /; hearnaturia, /: heamoptysls, l.;
internal hemorrhage. 1; hemorrhage of
the lungs. /; cerebral hemorrhage, q:
hemorrhage of stomach and bowels, 1:
uterine hemorrhage. l; hemiplegia, 1:
valvular disease of the heart. 2; intestinal
obstruction, l: intussuseption of bowels,
/: hamilton, 8; la grippe. 6; leucocythe-
mia, /; nephritis, A. marasmus, 3: menin-
gifts, e. cerebro spinal meningitis, L;
myelits acute, l. old age. 2: pneumonia,
Al; peritonitis. 4; prenatal shock. /: pre-
mature birth, 8: paralysis, 2: phthisis, Z;
pulmonary congestion. /; pulmonary gam
creme. l; opium poisoning. /; corios SUBJ
Innate poisoning, /: morphia poisoning.
2; septceanna, 2; suicide by morphia /;
suicide by gunshot, 6; suicide by poison,
q suicide by hanging, 1; suicide by opium,
/: suicide by laudanum. l; tuberculosis, 4:
typho-pneumonia, 2; unknown causes 20;
whooping cough, 20: weakness, >.
The nativity of those who died during
the year was as follows: Montana. IA;
other states, 90: England 80: Ireland "a:
China, 8; Italy, 3; Norway. 5: Canada, 25;
Germany, 10; Sweden, Z; Austria, 2: Rus
STA, 1; Finland. 2; Wales, 2; Switzerland,
2: not stated, "a
Their occupations were as follows: Ac-
tress, l; blacksmith. 1; bridge builders, 4;
bookkeeper. l; barber. 2; children, I4s:
carpenters, ?; cooks. 8: contractors, 1:
clerks. 2; express agent. l: engineers. 10:
firemen, 3: gamblers, 2: housewives. 43;
lawyers, .: laborers, 40: miners 20; mer-
chant, /: mill men. /: newspaper men. 1;
not stated. e5; painter. 2; plasterer 1:
prospector. ?; policemen, .; professional
man. /; railroad men. .: school teachers.
5; switchman. /: stage line manager. /:
storekeeper. l; saloon-keepers, 5: smelter-
man. i: travelling agents, 2: teamsters, .:
woodchopper. i: walters, 3; Waterman l.
There were 295 males and 145 females.
Their social relations were as follows:
Single, 299; married. los; widows IL: wild
overs. 3; not stated. IS. There ages were
as follows; Under l year. llS; l TO 3, as: 5
to 10. 10: 10 TO 20. 20: 20 to 80. "A: 20 to 40.
Il; 20 to 50. So 50 to so. 25: so to 20. Is; 20
to 50. ;; 50 to 90. :: not stated. :.
OF the total number OF deaths the re-
port states that 2s6 occurred inside OF the
city limits. IS in the three-mile limit and
~ in other places. Thirty-e4ghtf bodies
We're shipped and 9 were received in
Butte for burial. Inquests were held on
lis bodies during the year and Is cases
OF contagious diseases were reported.
The Offices of Montana Electro Gas
company have been removed from Sc
West Park street to No. 40 East
Broadway street. where the acetyline