The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-06-28
TUBERCULOSIS IS
Being SUBDUED
Mortality Statistics Show No
table Decrease in Deaths
From Consumption.
STILL The MOST DEADLY
That and Pneumonia Claim the Largest
Number of Victims-The Latter
Disease Is Especially Fatal
to Children.

Washington, d. c., June 27.-The cen.
sus bureau has just published a report
presenting mortality statistics for the
years 1900 II 1904, in communities
Which preserve death records. This
area in 1904 included 10 states and 334
cities. The states are Connecticut, In.
diana, Maine, Massachusetts,, Michigan,
New hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode
Island and Vermont. These states and
cities had in 1904 a population of b.
1896, 1888, two-fifths of the population OF
the United States.
The number of deaths reported in
1900 was $50, $50 and the death rate per
1000 of population vas 1915. In 1901 the
rate declined to 1876 and in 1902 to l6.
The rate increased in 1903 to 1911, and
in 1904 to 1871. The average rate for the
five years was 1916 lower than in Eng
land and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Ger
many, Prussia, Hungary, Netherlands,
Belg1um switzerland, Spain n Italy
and higher than in Norway and
Sweden.
Lowest in the West.
h average death rate was lowest in
Indiana and Michigan, the only regis
t~ration states west of the Alleghenies,
and highest in the District of Column
bia and Rhode Island. The average
rate was IT'S in cities of 5000 or more
etilu lao III lGId ClStTlClS. fInDue Isl
and is the only state in which the rate
was as high in the rural districts as in
the cities. But in Massachusetts, Con-
necticut and New Hampshire the urban
rate exceeded the rural by less than J
per 1000.
The excess vas greatest in New Jer-
sey, New York and Maine. The average
rate was lowest in st. Joseph, Mo-, 7.6;
Owosso, Mich, 10.1; Lincoln. Neb., 1O.4,
and st. Paul., Mimi, 1915, and highest
in Charlestown. S. c., BIB; Wilmington,
N. c., 2S.2, and Jacksonville. Fla, PSI.
Causes of death with increasing rates
for the five years were heart disease,
nephritis and Rright's disease, apopleXy,
cancer, cirrhosis Of the liver, diabetes
and appendicitis. Causes with decreaS-
ing rates were old age, bronchitis, con-
vulsions, paralysis and peritonitis.
tuberculosis and Pneumonia.
tuberculosis n pneumonia We're by
far the leading causes Of death. h
average annual mortality from con
sumption was 1925 per 100, 900 Of pop
ulatiOn. The rate has how a marked
decline since 1890, when it was 245.4.
This indicates that the war against the
white plague is meeting with success.
The mortality from this disease in the
registration area in the United States
is lower than in Ireland, Germany,
Norway, England and Wales, Scotland,
the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy.
OF the whole number of deaths from
tuberculosis Of the lungs $50 per cent.
occurred between the ages of 20 and
30. The majority of the deaths were
among males, the proportion being $50
males to 461 females. The nulnbe of
deaths was greatest in March and April
n least in September.
The mortality from tuberculosis OF
the lungs was much greater in the
cities than in the rural districts. TAX
ing each registration state as a unit,
the mortality from this disease was
highest in Rhode Island, New York and
New Jersey, and lowest in Michigan,
Vermont and New Hampshire. Elk
Guiding Denver, the rates We're high
est III New Orleans, San Francisco,
Washington, Newark, Jersey City, Bal
timore and Cincinnati, and lowest in
! st. Joseph, Mo, Scranton, Omaha, De-
troit, st. Paul, Buffalo and MinnGap-
oils.
Pneumonia Among Infants.
Pneumonia was second among the prin-
cipal causes of death, the average annual
rate being 1874. 8 per 100000 of population
The death rate from this disease is con.
siderably greater than in England and
Wales and Scotland.
OF the deaths from pneumonia nearly .:
per cent. more We're of males than OF
females A greater number of deaths oc.
CURED at ages under five than any othel
hve-year period. The majority of these
deaths occurred under one year of age
After the age of five years the greatest
number of deaths occurred at ages be.
tween sixty and siXty-nine.
The mortality from pneumonia was
about % per cent. higher in the cities THAI
in the rural districts. Taking each regis
tration state as a unit, the average annual
rates were highest in New York, Rhode
Island and Vermont, and lowest in Mich.
igan, Indiana and Connecticut. For the
principal cities, the average annual rate!
were highest in Allegheny. Pittsburg, New
York and Kansas City [Mo.), and loves,
in St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Joseph ono,
and Toledo.
Among the causes Of death. diarrhoca
was third, the average annual mortality
from this disease for the fipe years being
115.1 per 10000. Over so per cent. Of the
deaths from this disease were deaths o;
children under five years of age, and oven
Co per cent. of children under one year OF
age.
The deaths of males exceeded those OF
females, the proportion being 529 males tc
All females in every 1000 deaths. Over &C
per cent. of the deaths occurred during
July, August and September.
Heart disease WAS fourth among the
causes, the average annual rate being
1908 per lW,00 of population. Over 70 per
cent. OF the deaths from this disease &C.
CURED at ages above forty-four. over %
per cent. occurring at sixty-ive years and
over. 1t is noticeable that THE mortality
the death rate advancing from I11.2 pc.
100, 900 in 1900 to 1874 6 IN 1904.
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