The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-18

rr. -.r1rt Of the health department
ar +a. YEAR 1889 just compiled, shows
~, r..Hge health conditions in Salt
Ike cry were about normal There
- fIg deaths for the year, the num-
b. I.nE five in excess Of the total
4..-r- fur 1898. and the largest death
~. SINCE 1898 Estimating the city's
+-.ratEsu NJ 10000 the death rate IS
Il .-. 900 of population.
Tf. report furnishes some interest
.-r statistics. For instance, the NUM-
b.- of zymOtic or preventable diseases
--.usfng death last year was ninety
MN. The same number of deaths was
rom caurtitutiOual diseases, 295 fatal
cases of local disease were recorded,
frfrf-an deaths were from accident, and
me remainder were due TO various
or the preveutable diseases cholera
trf.rrum caused thirty-twO deaths,
EarIat fever twelve. typhoid fever ana
Ia grippe eleven each. WhOOping cough,
d#1Hrrprfa and septicaema seven eaen,
ana measles caused three deaths
Some Causes Of Death,
OfHer. causes Of death and the NOR
taTfrl- from each are given as follows;
Prrf-s pulmoualis Consumption, SO:
Deruicious anaemia. Il; cancer Of 6tom-
g.n TO- alcoholism and hamilton, .
each. apopIexy, u; commissions, 16; me-
raugftis. 10; cerebral spinal meningitis
3. PARALYSIS, 7, heart disease, ii; val
vu.ar disease Of heart, s; capillary
bronchitis. 9. pneumonia, 3; append
clrs. 10: enteritis and obstruction OF
the bowels, each; Brights disease, 10;
accidental means, Is: old age, 20; SUI
4fa TNF
Ieuce, So.
Three hundred and thirty-six of the
dead were males. and 276 females, and
All but four were white. Two hundred
and eighty-ive were single, 24O married,
twenty-eight widOWers and sixty seven
widows. Utah natives numbered 2al,
and 1873 were natives of other parts OF
the United States.
One hundred az fOTty-SeVeB were
under the age Of years; eighty seven
were between the ages OF . and .
years, and las were over 90 Years OF
age.
births are not included in the death
total. one hundred and FIVE bodies
were sent from this city elsewhere Tor
fnterment. and eighty more than that
number were received from outside Tor
burial. One hundred and thlrty-one
died i'm the local hospitals and puOlc
In the city cemetery 432 bodies were
inferred, 2s9 were buried in Mt. OhVet,
thirty-two were buried in Calvary, ana
twelve in the Hebrew cemetery.
Contagion and Infection.
The enormous number Of SS4 cases Of
scarlet fever We're quarantined during
the year. but only twelve resulted IA
tally. There were eighteen cases OF
dfDhtberia and seven deaths theretrOm.
typhoid fever cases numbered ninety
three and the mortality therefrom was
eleven. WhoOping cough claimed seven
victims from fOTJy-elght cases.
In 1899 the number of local marriage
licenses issued was SEQ and the births
reported, numbered 1924, all white eX-
cept four. OF these. 554 were males
and 555 females. and in 10 cases the sex
was not given. The births in the year
preceding were nineteen more
The expense of maintaining the
health department last year was Sl2.-
$50 and OF the crematOTy 81, 200. During
the year 11,722 cubic yards of garbage
and condemned fOd were consumed at
the CrematOry.
January Report,
The report Of the city health depart
ment for January shows fifty-fOUr
deaths. or fourteen less than for the
corresponding month of last year. Five
.f the dead were under i've years of
age and fourteen were over the age
OF SiNty-dve. Old age caused six
deaths. pneumonia FIVE, consumption
four. broncho pneumonia four. heart
disease three. debility. asthma, brOn-
eltIis. cancer of stomach, Bright's~dis
ease. two each, scarlet fever. rheu-
m8JiSm, maTaSmus, brain lesion, par
a-ysIs. spinal meningitis, eclamsia- en-
hrLsm, pulmonary embOlism, pleuTO
.reumonia. cyanOsis, appendicitis, al
Uumiuuria each caused one death, and
accident poison and violence caused
seven deaths. Twenty-Five Of the dead
We're males and thirty-twO females.
and three were Chinese Sixteen died
l the hospitals During the month sew
r--v-eiEht marriage licenses were is
sued in the county and los births were
r.. .r-el
Tvauty-seven cases Of smallpox, and
twenty-five of scarlet fever and two
~ liuhrheTia were Quarantined. Seven
cases 0r whOOping cough and two Of
typhoid fever were reported in Janu-
Weeks Health Record.
Last weeks report showed thirteen
deaths inclusive Of the five bodies Of
l... .a-t-rymen brought home for in
t. .r and fifteen deaths reported.
N.... ..u cases OF scarlet fever and two
nj ...--larll are still under quaTan-
-lT. .. three new cases of smallpox
"rr. taken 20 the isolation hospital
..a- new case of Whooping cough and
one .- typhoid fever were reported.
George Washington hatchets at Ko-
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