The Jersey City news., 1899-12-01
MARRIAGES f ".
Report Of Vital Statistics
Shows a Falling Off Of
800 This Year.
LUNG DISEASES INCREASE
The Total Number OF Deaths
in New Jersey 1900
Births 2e, ,4le.

Governor Voorhees, has received the an
nuaI report OF the State Board OF t1essli u Z
and the Bureau of Vital Statistics. iAs
effect of the abolition OF JERSEYS sareeilsa
Green and the marriage license law e
shown In the fact that IN place OF tAs
former usual annual increase IN the nun
ber of marriages. there IS laili''s ~:
this year Of 900 from last year or a eoeai
decrease of 100 since the law was passed
There were Is, ,SS6 marriages receroeu uui-
Ing the past year.
The nurnber of births recorded LOT tne
year is e. .Ms, or an apparent faaing on -
nearly 5000 from the year before ne ue-
crease. the report explains, is only appsai
ant ana IS due to the ineficieney OF rae
svstem employed in, the State 1or tne COZ
lection of returns Of Dlrths-
The ranort shows that there Is great
increase in diseases of the lungs IN New
Jersey. During the last hscai year l.
~1,o~,r, t4at there were in the state S,ooa
Qseatbs from acute lung trouble. =, -,
Mitchell. Secretary Of the suate = $50
S3oard. in his report. says that tne ~
rrease of deaths due to consuhiplio''
alone IS 41e greater for the past year tiai'
Mbe ge for the previous tWents-ose
xaars There were 316 more deaths from
consumption during 1899 than during l0so.
Eor +l,e year comprised in the report
40 +otal number of deaths was SV'sss.
THE estimated population OF the State =
e55 s79 showing a death rate OF le.ao-
~ the total deaths for the year 1890
were of children under five years OF age
and S.O42 were deaths of persons over ov
,years of age. The deaths from the classi-
f,ed causes for the year were as follows
Remittent fever, s6; typhoid fever 1885,
scarlet fever, 1877; measles. 96; whooping
co,,rh. 2s2: diphtheria and Group, III; cry
sinelas. eS: diarrhoenl diseases OF chill
dren. 3.56S: consumption, 1854; acute lung
trouble 1922: brain and nervous diseases
Of children. 1854: diseases of heart and
circulation. 2.731: renal and cystic dis
eases. 1.s25; adult brain and spinal dis
eases. 2.s42; adult brain and Intestinal
diseases, 1855; cancer. 946; acute rheum-
atism, Is; puerperal. 267.
The deaths from the peryentable causes
of diseases are shown to be greater dur
ing the past year than during the previous
year. except in cases of scarlet fever,
measles and diphtheria, The deaths froun
diphtheria, III In all. were the smallest
the past twenty years. The number was
15s less than for the year 1888. While the
number of deaths from typhoid, 486, was
se more than the number for 1888, It was
lss less than the average for the previous
twenty-one years.
During the year there were two out
breaks of disease, which were traced d.
rectly to milk as the medium through
which the infection was conveyed. One
was serious outbreak of typhoid fever
in the Oranges, in Essex county, due TO
the milk furnished by q dealer named
LOBBY, the bacilli coming from q poilut-
ed well at which the dealer took the
water to wash his cans and dairy uten-
sils The other outbreak was OF diphthe-
ria in Plainfield, which was transmitted
by dealer named Schenck. Two OF
Schenck's children had the disease In
both Instances the State Health Board
uuarantined the dealers until a new water
supply had been secured by the one and
until 1t was clearly settled that the dis
ease had been entirely obliterated in the
other.
The report says that during the past
year the traffic in diseased meat has been
much diminished, but not altogether sup
pressed Tuberculosis cows have been
slaughtered and sent to market in a few
Instances and the parties guilty of the
practice have shown great skill In evad-
ing punishme New legislation says
Or Mitchell, .'is urgently needed to more
explicitly prohibit the sale of diseased
meats for food. and the penalties should
5be sufficiently severe to discourage trif-
ling with the public health in this par
ocular
= Referring to the large number of deaths
due to diarrhoeal diseases of children,
Or. Mitchell said that much of the trou-
bile In this respect was undoubtedly due
ito preservatives used in milk and other
i6ood products. During the early summer
the Chemist connected with the State
Dairy Department. discovered an extensive
use Of preservatives in milk, and it was a
considerable time before the wide use OF
the drug was stopped. Dr.. Mitchell says