Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-17
GrieVe, BiSSet q Holland
HEALTH OF THE STATE
Compar atively Heavy Death Rate
 Diseases of the Seasons.

LindSley. secretary of the state board of health, shows 1,64S deaths, being 239 more than the average for tine month for five years. The rate, 21 for the large towns, 16.S for the small and 20 for the whole state.
 The principal causes of death were as follows: Diarrhoea 466, of which all but 52 were under , years: nervous system 159, consumption 110. heart 1O9. pneumonia fl, typhoid fever 23. whoouing cough 13, bronchitis 13. diphtheria aud croup II, malarial fever :, and measles :.
 Cases of contagious diseases were reported as follows: Measles 30, scar let fever 43. cerebro- spinal fever Q. diphtheria and croup 66, whooping cough 43, typhoid fever 69, consump- ton p.
 Dr Lindsley calls attention to the distribution of diseases and offers an explanation which deserves to be read and remembered It is as follows:
 Tt is matter of common UbServa' ton that the acute diseases of the or gans of respiration occur more ire quently and fatally in the winter and early spring than at other times. It is equally true that disorders of the di- gestive organs are far more frequent in the months of July. August and Sep tember than in other mVlths. An H.! portant question is. Why do we have pneumonia i'll cold weather and di- arrhoeal diseases in hot weather: Do the extremes of temperature give T full and satisfactory exploration It is evident that cold and heat are nOt essential to their production. because they do occasionally occur in any eli matic temperature. The prr3ahiity ls that the e'f"ct e. temperHtura is not direct in causing these diseases. but that its influence Is chiefly limited to producing cOnditiOns-an environment favorable to the development of these diseases. Do not the pneumOnii dis eases happen in fle early part Q: win ter and in early spring, and largely among elderly people. becauSh durin. the previous weeks and months they have heen housed most of the tiGe. and obliged to breathe only hOUs" air? In consequence of the impurities pro duced by the combustion Of fuel and of the agents of illumination, the respiration of persons and animals. and the calculations from their bodies. the innumerabe micro-OrganlSms and the ever present dust within the confined walls of the house. house air k always many. many times more impure than outdoor air. The continuous. almost uninterrupted inhalation of house. vitiated air weakenS and cOnquerS the resiStfve powers Of the lungs. and makes them more susceptible to pnpu- mOnic infections. With the approach of warm weather the house iS opened. people get out and pneumonia dimiu- isheS. Moral: People should get out doors every day in winter.
 "Diarrhoeal disorders are not direct ly produced by a high temperature. Such as are not caused by organic dis ease are the result of errors Of diet. The most numerous victims are in- fants. IL is not because they are m- fants. for infants that derive all their nOuriShment from natures source do not have summer diarThOea.
 Nursing babies are immune. Ii .s only bOttIs-fed babies that are fed on poisoned milk or other bad food that suffer. They suffer not because the weather iS hot. but because the dis ease producing germs. which are of the vegetable Kingdom. grow enormously more abundant in hot weather than when it is cold and get into tine food of both infants and adults IL is al- most exclusively germ infected food that causes summer iiarTloeaS. Moral. Keep all foyi clean and in clean places EsIeeially keep the rsfrigera- tor and the pantry clean
 There were 99u marriagpS last June ani l>19 births The mortality of the public institutions of the state was as follows Bridgeport 1s. Danbury ;. HartforgI r. Meriden 2. MiddletOwn I7. New Britain I. New Haven J;. New London 2. NorwaIk 2. Norwich Putnam . Stamford 2. and Water bury II The following towns are r,.- T0rresl as having no deaths in Iuly. AHsISver. Beaeon Falls BrUokfieId. gro-oklyu- Chaplin Clinton. CoIum- bia- EsstforL East Granbv. East Ha- ven Essex Franklin. Hartland- tio- sheu- Kent Lisbon Lyme Maril,cr- ough- NisEisefeEL Mo1ro- North Bran fsr,i- OlI Lyme OId Ssybrook- Prs p-ct- Rockv HiiL SeotIzn.i- Sherman. SoEeTs- Sterling Cnion- Weston. WEI ton: totzl .