Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-16
VERY LITTLE SMALLPOX,
|only One Death in Connecticut il
 Twelve Months.

The monthly bulletin of the state
 nard of heabbh which has just been issued gives unany facts and figures for September. There were A,lo4 deaNhs reported for the month in 164 towns, the regfstrars of four towns falling to make report The total Tor the quarter ended September 30 was 8, ,072, against 3,9oS for the same period in 1902, 3,S42 in 1901, and 4,495 in 1900. The September deaths were 79 less than the September aveage of the five years preceding. The September deaths mean an annual rate per 1000 of 152 for the large towns, 13 5 for the small towns aud 14.S for the whole state. Heart disease caused 107 deaths, accident and violence 68 and pneumonia 39. Infectious diseases caused 33O deaths. 2S.6 per cent of the entire mortality. Of these 1o2 were due to consumption. Typhoid fever let fever T.
 The following cases of infectious dfs- eases were reported 10 the board by the town health officers: Smallpox, 9 (all PutnanaS measles, 85, in addition to the cases in WallingfoTd, where the 1ieease is epidemic; dfphtherfa and croup, 79; scarlet fever. 97; typhoid fever, 1S5 plus; whooping cough. 21 plus; consumption 27. The health of ficers of 93 towns reported tihat they have not been notified of anyi infectious diseases. All the feaahh officers of New Haven. Fairfield. Lftchfeld and JTollan1 counties reported, Hartford and WfndhaGn each having one fail- slre to report, New London two and Nfdd1ese0 foa1r The town to mar the record Of Hartford county was Sims bury. The births in 164 towns in Au- gust were 1,7o0 and there were 510 marriages during Nlre same period.
 The report makes mention of the df- unfinished mortafity from smallpox, there having been but one death from the disease during the year. ended Au- gust 31, against 9 the previous year. In the words of the report:
 There were reported 2SS cases of smallpox in Connecticut in the past year, scattered through eighteen differ ent towns and only one fatal. The onlyratfonaIeaepla the remark ably low death rate ss the extremely and unprecedented mfld character of the epidemic. In all the literature of smallpox there is no instance of an epidemic so widespread and benfgmant in type. The gentle, mild character of the rnafady has been the cHAe8 pro- moFer o6 its spread There are rec ords of many persons who pursued fheir usual occupattons width little or no interruption, thus spreading the af feo5on widely among td1ose who were not protected by vaccination. Again, the disease as 1t has presented itself ie so different from tihe type described An the books Hllat every first outbreak in a town developed a difference of opinion among doctors on the diag- nosis, and many primary cases were not put under any restriction Many cases have escaped the attention of the health officer altogether.
 '@TIhe only town in the state in which it exdsts at present is Putnam, where 1t has prevailed more or less since February, 1902, the health aH- fhoritdes having aignally faded to ef- feet a general vaccination. Of the hundreds of Snalfpox cases which have occurred in Connecticut, not one of them had been successfully vaccin- ated within i've years previous to the attack