The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-11
CONN. SANITARY SCIENCE
4 GREAT INCREASE or PNEUJTO'
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Trcatment-A Defective Resistration
 Law.
 The annual report of the state board of health, one of the most carefully pre- pared of the state reports, is just issued. After noting the improvement in sani- tary administration in the state during the last few years, the report calls at tention to the rapid increase in pneumo- mia. That disease has now outstripped consumption in mortality, and out of 16263 deaths from all causes in Con- necticut during 1900, there were 1,631 victims of pneumonia, as compared with 1,476 from consumption and 1,341 from heart disease. During the decade from 1890 to 1899, inclusive, the average annual mortality from pneumonia has been 1,296, as compared with an annual average mortality of 776 during the thir- teen years previous. The disease is, the report says, in close occord with the development of late years of influenza and la grippe. The tables indicate that consumption is slowly dying out.
 The death-rate for the state during the year 1900 was 17.9 per 1000. Tn ten years, notwithstanding the fuller re- turns of deaths, the rate has fallen from 1922 per 1000 to 179 per 1000. The divorce laws appear to be better en- forced in the state, as in spite of in- crease in population, divorces have fallen from 477 to 431 during ten years. On the other hand, births, in spite of fuller returns and increase of popula- tion, have been almost stationary for eight years, there being 20,395 in 19OO as compared with 20,296 in 1893.
 Some remarkable figures are given to show the. large mortality from ty- phoid fever in private practice as com pared with hospital treatment in 1900 Returns from six hospitals with 693 typhoid-fever patients show a mortal ity of but 6S per cent, while 1,16S cases in, the whole state showed mor- tality of 20 per cent. An official re- port of the Forestville epidemic of ty- phoid fever resultin in fifty cases and seven deaths is given, showing clearly that the disease originated from river water contaminated by human excreta from a factory, the water being pumped into the regular Forestville supply owing to break of 8 pipe where it crossed the stream.
 The report strongly urges the em- ployment of sanitary inspectors, other than the health officers, for economical and other reasons, and enphatically objects to requiring complaints of nui- sances to be made in writing over the signature of the complainant. It says no citizen should be compelled to com- plain of his neighbor in order to have nuisance abated that IS dangerous to the health of his family. It also urges the importance of local hospitals in every considerable town and city, for the isolation of primary cases of conta- gious diseases as a means of prevent ing their spread and saving, life and gra tuitous examinations of morbid specimens for the early and positive detection of suspected infectious dis easee. It recommends strongly the more general practice of systematic in- spection of school children.
 The report strongly opposes sewerage into running streams, and favors inter- mittent filtration as the method best adapted to Connecticut conditions un- der supervision of the state board of health. It says that an antl-spNting law is sure to redtice tuberculosis. A state hospital for consumptives is strongly favored.
 The report suggests that some modi- fication of the registration act of the state he made so as not to exclude old and skilled physicians not technically up in the minute points required in the examinations. On this matter the re- port says: "If present conditions con- tinue the profession in this state will be almost a close corporation, limited to those who join 1t while they are fresh from their college work, and their nlemory-is still retentive of chem ical formulae and of minute points in anatomy and physiology"
 Tn the birth rate of the state the town of Bradford leads with rate of 35.6 per 1000, and Greenwich is lowest, with rate of 147 There were 437 fe- mality births. There were thirty-two third marriages of brides, and one fourth marriage while fifty-seven grooms married for third time, five for fourth time and one for a fifth time. Marriages of widows and wid- overs ware 10.e per cent. of the total; and October is the favored Connecticut month for marriages, with June next.
 ORGAN CONCERT.