The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-08-24
TYPHOID VICTIMS
SHOW BIC
GAINS
ACCORDING TO IMPORTANT BuL.
LETlN ON HEALTH STATS
tbs BY BUREAU.
MEMPHIS LEADS LIST
of Greatest Mortality Where Average
10 11o a Year--White Plague
Killed 310,7oe in Four Years
Cities Suffer the Most.

Washington, D. C., Aug. %. Oueof
the most important bulletins on health
staticics that has ever been publ sll-
.ed by the census bureau has just come
from that department.
Figures showing the total number
OF deaths In the United States from
1900 to 1904 indicate that typhoid r..
yer was the cause of 53.s57 deaths. the
average annual death rate from that
disease being 1873 per 100000 Of pop.
ulation The death rate from this
fever in the United States was higher
than in any of the European countries.
with the exception of Italy, and very
mnch higher than most of the OF hers
for which figures are giyea
The greatest mortality from this
liseose occurred in the rural district.
with the exception + the year 1909.
The greatest mortality in the large
cities occurred In Pittsburg. Pa. the
rate being more than l20 u each year
and ranging li4.3 in 1900 to 1878 in
1901. with an average rate Of ls7.
The total number of deaths due II
malarial fever during the period from
1900 10 1904 was S,959.
Memphis Leads List.
or the cities of 100000 population
and upward. the greatest mortality oc.
Cured in Memphis, Tenn, being more
han ITO in every year, with AIN annual
average Of 140 2. The rates from this
itsease were high in the two horoughs
IF New York city tDr0nN 196 ana
Queens 1927. but the rate for the clly
Is whole (37l was about the same
IS the total for cities in registration
states (3S)
During the five years under consid.
ration the total number Of deaih5
rom smallpox was 5.S9s.
The mortality in this country from
scarlet fever was about the same al
n England Wales and scotlaad but
vas less en- The average than Belgium.
lnd much lower than Germany or
hungary The total number of deaths
rom 1900 to 1904 from this disease
vas 1880. The deaths in the cities
we're about double those in the rural
istrlcts.
Denver led in the number Of deaths.
aYing an average of 24.9: Newark.
IS; New York, 23.G: Scranton. 224.
ittsburg, Pa 2i9; Boston, 21.7. and
srsey City, 20.5.
The total number Of deaths from
hopping cough was 1873.
Group and diphtheria caused the
cath from 1900 TO 1904 Of 53G7i per.
ms
There were 7,0s1 deaths from in.
lenza in 1900, Io.093 in 1901. s.g25
1902, COCA in 1903 and G.724 in
,04.
Many Tuberculosis Victims.
tuberculosis OF the lungs caused
rand total Of SO 709 deaths from
700 TO l904-more than from any 9th.
disease, except that of the nerves
Though these figures appear high
ey are in reality lower than these OF
eland. Germany Norway Spain or
Deaths were much more numerous
cities than in rural districts. I'm
IS disease Denver shows the large,f
rcentage Of deaths per 100000. the
ie for that city being 104I. In this
50. however. the excessive mortality
due largely to the deaths of nor.
sidents. who 20 there in the later
iges Of the disease. hoping 10 "a
nehted or cured by the climate COZ
icne. The same statement apniies
some other sections in the West
South.
Aicoholism carried or a total of q.
:. ando This number al were mae
ll5. the proportion being S57
ies 10 liS females in I.100 deaths
both sexes.
tuberculosis is exceeded slightly hv
Eases or the nervous system fhr
d number from 1900 TO 1904 being
SIG.