The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-07-04
ANY OTHER DISEASE.

| ANY OTHER DISEASE.
Pneumonia Comes Next ia the Uaited
States, but Heart Disease is
Steadily on the Increase. The
Census R.port Covers
| Five Years.
The bureau OF the census has just
published q report presenting mortal
ity statistics TOR the United States
for the five calendar years 1900 to
1904. This report was prepared under
the supervision OF the late William A.
King, chief statistician for vital stat.
istics.
The annual compilation Of statis-
tics of mortality was authorized By
the act OF Congress establishing the
permanent census office. The statis-
Tics, however, do not cover the entire
country, but, In accordance with the
provisions OF this act, are restricted
to what Ii termed the registration
area" This area comprises those
States and cities which have laws re-
curing the regis ration Of death and
possess records affJrdirg satisfactory
and comparable data. In 1904 it in.
cluding II States and 334 cities which
oad at least 8 900 population in 1900.
The II registration States are Con.
necticut, District Of Columbia, In
diana, NJ zine, Massachusetts, Micnt
gan, New Hampshire, New jersey,
New York, Rhode Island, and Yer
mont; the 334 registration cities In
clude, in addition to the cities In the
II registration States, considerable
number which are In non-registration
State.
These Ststes and cities, composing
the registration area, included In 1904
a population Of 81 996. $50, or only 3
trife moro than gwc. ftths OF the esti
mated population Of the United States
For the remainde, OF the United
States we have at present no mortali.
oy statistics which are sufficiently re.
liable snd complete to be included ir
this report. The registration area,
however, is gradually increasing in ez-
tent, as the various States and cities
come to realizs the importance Of haV.
ing adequate registration laws and OF
fecsively enforcing them.
The number Of deaths reported IN
the registration area in 1900 vas 5a9,-
1893, arathe dsaassh rate per 600 OF:
population was t7.6 In 1901 the rats
declined to 16 an6 in 1902 the rate
declined to Is. The rate increased In
1908 to l6. 2 and in 1904 10 l67. The
average annual rate for the five years
vas Is per l 0o0.
The average annual death rate in
the registration States was lis per
600 In the cities Of 5000 OF more
population in 1900 and l4.3 per 1000
in rural disGricts, which as the term
IS here used, includes everything out
side these cities. Rhode Island is the
only registration State In which the
rate was IS high in the rural districts
as In the cities. But In Massachusetts,.
Connecticut and New Hampshire the
urban rate exceeded the rural by less
than l per l 900. The excess was
greatest in New Jersey, New York
and Maine.
The higher mortality for cities is
due largely to the fact that residents
OF rural districts when critically Ill re
sort to the hospitals and institutions
In the cities for treatment, and that
she deaths occurring in sucn cases are
registered in the cities, thus jncreas-
ing the urban mortality.
The average annual rates were low
est in St. Joseph, Mo. (7.6); O Hosso,
Mich, (1o.D; Lincoln, Neo., Q04);
and St. Paul, MINI, (l05), and high
est in Charleston; S. c., (313); VII
mlngton, N c., (28.2); and Jackson.
vile, Fla, Us. y.
There were A cities in which the
average annual death rate for the five
gears was 20 or more per 1000. Nine.
teen OF these cities are located in the
Southern STAT. s and contain q larga
proportion Of colored population, the
death rate for which in general large
ly exceeds that for the whites.
tuberculosis Of the lungs and pneu-
nonia Were bV far the leading causes
OF death.
The average annual mortality from
tuberculosis OF the lungs or consump
ticn, 1900 to 1904, vas l72.6 per 100,
900 CT population. 1t is gratifying to
pote that the rate has shown mark
ed decline since 1890, when it vas
245 I. This indicates that the war
fare against the white plague is meet
ing With success. The mortalit.u q iom
this disease in the registration o. in
the United States is lower than it is
in Ireland, Germany, Norway, Spain
and Switzerland, but higher than in
England and Wales, Scotland, the
Netherlans, Belgium and Italy.
The average annual mortality from
consumption was higher in Denver
than in any other registration city.
This fact is easily explained by the
deaths Of non-residents who resort to
that locality 10 the later stages Of the
disease hoping to be benefited by the
favorable climatic conditions. E1clud-
Ing Denver, the rates we're highest In
New Orleans, San Francisco, Wash
ington, Newark, Jersey City, Balti
more ard Cincinnati: and lowest in
ST. Joseph, Mo-, Scranton, Omaha,
| Detroit, St. Paul, Buffalo and Min.
ueap, lis.
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