The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-12-08
FEARFUL INCREASE IN THE
CITYs MORTALITY.
over Forty Per Cent More Deaths This
Year Than There Were During the
Cholera Year.

Either the death rate or the popula-
tion of Honolulu is increasing at fear
full rate. The deaths for the eleven
months of the year have been 979. As
suming that the deaths for December
will be the average of these eleven
months, the total deaths for the year
will number 1868. This is an increase
of All per cent over 1895, the cholera
year. 1t is an increase of AZ per cent
over the greatest mortality for ten
years preceding 1898. 1t is an increase
of 1876 per cent over the mortality of
1898. 1t is an increase of 60.4 per cent
over the mortality of 1896 the year fol-
lowing the general cleaning the city
got at the time of the cholera epidemic
The population according to the CEN
sus of 1895 was in round numbers 30,-
900. The number of deaths that year
was 677. For the increase of deaths for
1899 to be accounted for by increase of
population on the 1898 ratio of deaths
per thousand of population, would
mean that we now have population
of $4,000. If the mortality of 1885, the
cholera year be taken as a normal
death rate then on the basis of deaths
for 1899 we must now have popula-
ton of $4,000. If we have not that po-
pulation then the death rate is higher
than that of the year of the cholera
epidemic.
Beginning with the year 1899 the num-
ber of deaths each year has been 573,
SOL, 729, 574 GIG, 613, 726, 677, 924, and
979 for eleven months of 1899 equivalent
to 1868 for the whole year.
There has been an increase in the
number of deaths among each nation
ality of which the population is COM
posed, but it is most marked among
the Hawaians and Japanese. The
| deaths each year among the different
nationalities beginning with 1889 is as
| follows:
| Hawaiian, 351 455, 461, 337 365, 1886,
431, 377, 337, 461, and 4S2 for the eleven
months of 1899, equivalent to 526 for
| twelve months.
Japanese, 10, 21, 80, "a, 3S, 46, 4S, 54,
so 1922 and 17S for the eleven months
of 1899, equivalent to 1874 for twelve
months.
Chinese, 95, II, 81, SO, 102, 112, 115, 92,
Ill, 14S, and 127 for eleven months of
1S99 equivalent to 1873 for twelve
| months.
Portuguese, 4S, 81, 66, AZ, so, So, 81, rs,
60, 81, and "a for eleven months of 1899,
| equivalent to 92 for twelve months.
Americans, II, 10, 33, 81, Is, 32. "a, 30,
81, II, and As for eleven months of 1899
equivalent to 56 for twelve months.
Among Hawaiians, Chinese and Am
orleans there was a marked decrease
| in the number of deaths for the two
years following the general cleanup of
|
ties during that time did not change
very markedly. Therefore there was
a decrease in the death rate among
them, due in all probability to the san
itary measures taken at that time.
There was an increase in the number
of deaths among the Portuguese and
Japanese during those two years
though not as marked an increase as
there has been in 1898 and 1899. The
numbers of both these nationalities has
been increasing for several years, both
from births and from immigration
either from abroad or from other parts
of the Islands. So that taking this in
to consideration, it would seem that
the sanitary measures of the cholera
year had a favorable effect on the deatf
rate of these two nationalties. If this
is so, the consistent testimony of the
mortality tables in relation to all ma
tionalities of the population is that il
is about time to clean the city.