Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-09
INeREAsEl IN BIRTHS
REPORTS TO HEALTH OFFICE IN
THE PAST WEEK.

A remarkable increase in the number 81
births reported during the past week az
compared with the previous seven dayH
and with the same period last year. is
shown in the report OF the health depart-
meni. issued today for the week ended with
last Saturday. During the week there were
reported total Of f54 births, an average
81 twenty-five for each OF the seven days.
and this number the health authorities as
sert marks the highest point ever reached
In the District birth rate. As compared
with the week ended February "a. when
here were only 1e4 births reported II IA
seen that the increase falls only fraction
below 90 per cent. In the week ended
March 3, 1905, there were reported liz
births, or forty-one less than the SAND
period this year
Health Officer Woodward regards the In
crease due TO the fact that the department
II taking active steps to secure the prompt
reporting of births. These steps recently
nave included the prosecutions, for Viola
lions of the regulations, of midwives and
physicians who fail to report births within
the prescribed time. Each conviction on
sue sueh charge involves the payment of a
nne, the minimum penalty being $50, and IL
y assumed that the news OF two such con-
vfetions IN the Police Court within the fort
night has widely spread and brought about
the speedy compliance with the law indt-
Gated by the Jump In birth statistics
o"tho uhQ AlSeases.
The fun report of the health Office for
the week follows:
A comparison of this weeks mortality
with that Of the corresponding week of
1903 shows an increase of - deaths. and
with last weeks record shows an increase
OF 2 The total number of deaths reported
during the current week was 100 OF which
90 were white and 60 colored Although
the white population of the District of Co.
Ia dnttblo hat pf h.
colored. as shown on the tabulated por-
ton of this report deaths in the colored
portion during the current week outnum-
bered those of the white race by nine.
The principal causes of the mortality of
this week were pneumonia, % deaths: COM
sumption, 10; heart trouble, Ii; kidney dis
ease, IL; apoplexy 10: bronchitis, 4; whoop-
ing cough, 3, and diphtheria. 2 OF the
deaths resulting from pneumonia. Is out OF
the 20 were solored;. Of the deaths from
consumption, out of the 10 were colored;
of the IL deaths from kidney disease, S
were colored, and the 3 deaths resulting
from whooping cough were colored.
An examination of the weeks record OF
reported cases of contagious diseases shows
an increase in diphtheria and smallpox,
while scarlet fever shows a reduction of
five In the total number of cases on
hand since last week. and typhoid fever re-
mains at the same figures. viz. 81 cases.
Four new cases of scarlet fever were
ported and nine discharges were received.
all recoveries. leaving a total of twenty
seven cases in quarantine.
Typhoid fever shows the same figures for
the total number of cases under treatment
at the close of last week. Three new cases
were reported and three discharged Zone
by DEATH, leaving twenty-one patients UNI
der treatment, suffering with this disease.
Increase in Smallpox.
Smallpox continues to increase there bo-
Ing fifteen new cases reported during the
current week, while there were no cases
discharged from quarantine. making a IT,
tai OF twenty-five patients confined at the
smallpox hospital suffering with smallpox.
All of these new cases. however. were de-
veioped in persons already confined in quar-
artiue
The weather conditions, as reported by
the weather bureau, were as follows: Mean
temperature, "a degrees; mean relative hui
Nudity, II per cent; mean actual barometer.
1855 The winds were northwest averag-
ing ten miles an hour The maximum We
locity recorded was thirty-f1ve miles on
the 2Sth ultimo. The maximum temporal
ture was 90 degrees. on the Sd instant and
the minimum is degrees, on the 2sth ultimo.