The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-01-08

That dread disease, consumption
carried off sixty-one victims. leading in
the list Of diseases. There were twenty
one fatal accidents, seventeen died OF
apoplexy heart disease claimed twenty
one victims. kidney troubles seventeen.
old age twenty-Cour, dlphtheria TWEEN
ty-three. typhoid fever twenty-five.
pneumonia thlrty-seven.
OF those who died. their places Of
nativity were us follows; Wheeling, 1893;
other parts of the United States. 1885;
Germany, eighty-one: Ireland. twenty
two; Great Britain, ten; Austria, two;
Switzerland. two; Canada, Italy and
New Zealand. one each
Deaths by wards; First, sixty; Sec
ond, forty-seven; Third, forty; Fourth.
afty-two. Filth. evenly seven; Sixth,
seventy-four: Seventh, forty-six;
Eighth, eighty; in institutions, thirty
one.
Those who died from communicable
diseases were as follows; Typhoid few
err. Corty-two; diphtheria, slxty-one;
EcdEleI IeNeTs IUlTA1s llANsAHANo 49,
smallpox, three; total. l46.
Continuing. the report says:
In the annual report for 1925 1t was
remarked: 1T Is gratifying to note that
our city has had fewer deaths In the
past year than for ton years previous
II can now he said thta the city has
never had az low death rate as In the
year Just closed Estimating the popu-
lation, as a year ago, at $4,000, last
years mortality was only twelve
deaths per thousand people or 2.2S per
thousand below that of 1895 Classify
ing the principal causes Of death. we
And elghty-6our deaths were due to
diseases OF the digestive organs sixty
two TO diseases OF the nervous system,
slxty-seven to tubercular diseases. M
ty-four to pulmonary diseases. CeNclu-
slVe OF consumption. forty-nlne TO In
Gectlons of the clrculatory system,
twenty-one to diseases OF the urinary
organs. twenty to accidents. and TWEEN
ty-four to old age
As usual, consumption heads the list
with sIxty-one deaths, nine less than
the previous year. Recognizing con-
sumption as an infectious disease
some persons inheriting constitution
that AFFORDS a better soil for the prop
oEation of its germs than do others
boards OF health are now lnstituting
measures to suppress the habit which
consumptive patients have I'm common
with all mankind, of eXpectorating In
public places. as IN hotels, street cars,
carriages, etc Such patients should be
made acquainted with the fact that the
sputa contain the germs OF this disease,
and when dried may pass into the
mouth and nostrils of the healthy and
thus give origin to consumption. Con-
sumptive patients, therefore. for the
protection OF their friends and the pub
lie. should refrain from the too COM
mon habit referred 10, using, instead,
handkerchlefs or rags which may be
burned or boiled and disiniected.
When indoors. suitable cheap utensils
can be provided for this purpose and
these should he frequently diSihfected
and cleaned. There Is good reason to
believe that much good would result
from the general adoption Of these
simple suggestions II will he noted
that typhoid fever last wear caused
twenty-five deaths. In 1893 there were
only twelve typhoid deaths; IN 1894,
sixteen; in 1895, ten.
There seems To be a slight tendency
to an Increase in the number Of cases
Of this disease. here present table
showing the mortality from typhoid
fever since 1873 beyond which the city
has no mortality statistics: