Evening star., 1902-08-27
TYPHOID FEVER CASES
NUMBER LARGEa BUT NOT Be
LIEvED foEBEsExcEssIvE.
Record Being Kept for the First Time
in District-The Mertu-
arys Report.

While the number ohtyphoid fever cases
in the District continues large. the health
authorities do not tadmit that there is an
unusual excess over preceding wears This
is the nrst summer in which record of
typhoid cases has been required by law and
strictly Kept, so there is no means of COM
pairing the number of cases with past sea-
sons. The position of the department Is
strengthened by the fact that during last
week there were but six deaths from the
dlsease in the District of Columbia as
against eight in the corresponding week Of
last year.
According to the latest reports received
at the health Office there are 331 cases of
SPhold under treatment in the District of
SoluLnoia. seventeen new cases were re-
ported yesterday and there were two
The weekly report of the health depart-
meht, covering the seven-day. period ended
saturday last, was issued today and is as
follows:
Decrease in Number of Deaths.
ihere was a decrease Of over 10 per cent
IN the number of deaths in the District
ourlng the week ended on Saturday last,
as compared with those of the preceding
week. The mortality amounted to eighty
nVe' representing death rate of ISL. In
me previous week it was 101 death rate,
it9)' ana In the corresponding period of
Iasl year ilo death rate, 214. OF those
VINO dled last week forty-one were white
aHordlng death rate Of 1O5 and forty
1our colored; death rate 25.5. There were
SIX 1atal cases of typhoid fever, as COM
pdLeu win Twelve in the previous week,
ana elsht in the same period of last year.
Deaths from consumption fell from four
teen to seven. Those among children under
IVe years OF age decreased from thirty six
10 tHlrty-one, and among those under one
year Old from twenty-six to TWENTY-FIVE
The deaths by violence were three. one of
"hlch was suicidal, by gunshot in brains,
ana two accidental, both by extensive burns
by fire
The births reported were 119, of which
and females 54
AT the close of the last report there were
SIX cases of smallpox under treatment in
the hospital No new case occurred during
Tue week nor were any of the inmates of
the hospital discharged.
Typhoid Gases.
or typhoid fever, 247 cases were under
medical supervision at the end of the week.
New cases numbering eighty-nine were re-
ported, and forty were discharged, leaving
296 cases under treatment at the close Of
this report
Cases of scarlet fever to the number Of
eieVen were in quarantine by the report Of
the former week. MOI new case developed,
and three being discharged, eight cases re-
mained, with warning cards in five prem
ises.
AT the close of last report there were
eight cases of diphtheria in quarantine
New cases numbering three were reported
and two were discharged leaving nine
cases in seven premises
The mean weather conditions nreyaIent
during the week were: Temperature of the
atmosphere, II degrees; relative humidity,
"a, and barometer. 29.S1 The rainfall was
three one-hundredthsi of an inch winds,
northwest, averaging five miles per hour.
The maximum of the thermometer vas So
degrees on the 18th and minimum 81 de-
greeS on the nth