Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-01-25
VITAL STATISTICS.
Figures from Annual Report OF Health
officer Courtney.

The report of DIR. J. w. Courtney,
health officer, for the eight months
that he has held tho office, was filed
with the city clerk Monday.
The report states that during the
past eight months there were at
births, 1877 being males and 100 fc-
males. OF this number four were col
ored The second ward leads with 1876
births; ward one, IA; ward three. 90;
ward four. AZ; ward five, 81.
The death rate monthly per 1000
was as follows: May, 10; juno, 1874:
July. 1874; August. Is; September, Is;
October. 15.5; November, 100; Decem-
Der, 1853. In 1901 the death rate for
every one of the same eight months
was 1857 except September when 1T
was Is.
There were 81 deaths from April
80 1905, to January /, 1906, 1871 being
males and 100 females. Twenty five
were over so years of age and 81 over
so years. August had the largest
number of deaths for n single mont h
A., and September the smallest num-
Der. Is. According TO wards, deaths
were reported as follows: Ward one.
81: ward two, II: ward three, 1O4;
| ward four. 40: ward five. As. OF the
deceased 115 were natives of Burlng-
ton, 125 of other parts OF the United
states; "a of Canada; 20 of Ireland;
10 from other countries: one birth
place not reported. The largest mum
Der of deaths were among children
under one year of age, the record be-
ing % According to the figures on
G1n Ia, l,A
bcr OF deaths for tho entire year was
$50; number of births. $50: and 2o3
marriage certificates were issued
| The contagious record shows nine
deaths from diphtheria: one each from
measles and typhoid fever. The num-
bcr of contagious diseases reported to
the health officer was as follows
| Diphthcria, IS; scarlet fever, Q: meas
les, SIS; whooping cough. 1; mumps, .;
| typhoid fever, II.
Deaths from diseases were caused
as follows:
Castro cnteritis. Is; cncephalitis, l.:
pulmonary congestion. j; fracture.
spcnoid l: carcinoma of breast, /:
shock. !; auto intoxication, 2; angina
pectoris. /; chronic dysentery. /: ana
\
hemorrhagc. .; measles. /; marasmus,
| Q; malignant disease. I: stenosis of
intcstines, /; porstatitis, !; hydroccp-
| halus. .: toxemia. a diabetes, melitus.
1; carcinon oma OF rectum, 1 intestinal
obstruction, /: infantile debility, /: en-
teritis. s; malnutrition, 1; accident,
burns, /; cntero colitis, 3; pulmonary
odcma. /; cnterc fever. /; pyaomis, I;
general paresis, .: shock, /; cardiac in
| sufficiency, !; infected unbilicus, !.
congestive asrhyxia, .; fractured skull,
| |; artcrio sclerosis, /; capillary bron-
chitis. |; lupus. I; inters small intes-
! tines !: acute urcmia, .; rupture, cere-
bral artery, /; inanition, /; accident.
/; tubercular ascitis, /; shooting, acct
dental, .; cancer of stomach, /; pleur-
enlarged prostate, ]: Inflammation of
spinal cord, l; endrocarditis. l; typhoid
fever. /: bronchitis. 8; premature birth,
g. senile gangrene. .: tibroma of
uterus, ]; diphtheria, 8; bronchitis, 9.
pneumonia, 6: old age, 49, paralysis,
| 5; meningitis, o.; heart disease, %;
acute catarrhal laryngitis, 1; pulmon-
airy embolism, 1; chronic endocarditis,
l. accident fall, 1; general debility. 5;
commissions. 4; acute indigestion. ! (;
hamilton, 8: cholera infantum, 16;
peritonitis. .; Bright's disease. s; tub
CIRCULAR meningitis. I; pneumonia,
broncho, 6; appendicitis, 3; cyanosis,
1; tuberculosis. I; perforation and sep
sis, !; apoplexy, 70: drowning. acct
dent, s; whooping cough. l. chronic
intprstital perhritiS :. seDtjcemia ..
| pernicious aneamia. 3; phthisis pull
monalis. 4 still births not included in
rating, 20.