Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-26
MORTALITY STATISTICS.
Health ofacer's Showing for Week
Ending Saturday Last.

DR.. William c. Woodward. health officer
Of the District. in his statistical report for
the week ended June % says that the gen.
eral mortality. while slightly higher than
that of the week previous. Is considerably
lower than the record Of the corresponding
week Of 1905. when there were 133 deaths.
The total deaths during the week just
ended. he says. numbered ia, and during
the week previous LOT. Continuing, he says:
"Of these recent deaths 10 were among
the white Inhabitants and As Che same
number as the week previously among the
cOlored race, representing the following
death rates per 1000 per annum: White.
1874: colored, 24.3. and total. 1870, as COM
pared with /: 8. 24.3 and 1863 during the
week previous. and 1871, 3l.2 and 2l0. re-
spectively, during the 1906 period. The prin-
cipal causes of. this recent mortality were:
Heart disease, 10; consumption, IL; kidney
disease, I; malignant growths, o; menin-
gifts. 5: pneumonia, 5. There were A sui
cides.
THE changes noted on the record Of re-
ported cases of contagious diseases during
the past week were follows: Diphtheria
shows l case less than on hand at the close
Of the week previous. There were new
cases reported and 3 discharged as recov'
cred. leaving cases in quarantine; scarlet
fever shows 1 more case. there being new
reports received and / case discharged,
making a total of IL cases in quarantine.
One case of smallpox was discovered. the
patient being a nonresident, who was suf-
fering from the disease upon his arrival.
He was removed to the smallpox hospital
for treatment shortly after his arrival in
this city. and was doing nicely when this
report closed. Whooping cough shows an
increase of Is cases since the close of the
week previous. There were 16 new reports
receivd and 1 case discharged (by death).
making total of LOT cases on hand.
THE typhoid fever record compares ia
vora hlv with that of the same week of
1906, A cases against II last year. During
the past week there were 10 new cases re-
ported, and during the same week of 1906
IA. There were cases discharged during
the past week, by death, the rest as re-
covered. Measles continues to increase
(probably due to the fact that this disease
Is being reported more fully than was the
case when the law went into fOrce). There
were 81 new cases reported and % dis
charged during the report period. making
total of 183 cases under treatment. Chicken
pox shows more cases than on hand at
the close Of the previous week. there being
II new cases reported ana discharged as
recovered. making total OF II cases on
hand.
epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis
There were cases Of this disease reported
during the past week. and l case ended IN
death, leaving total Of cases under
treatment at the close of the week.
1.-The births reported during the past week
numbered 118, Of which "a were among the
white race and AZ among the colored. Dur
ing the same week Of 1906 there were IL
births reported.
1.-THE weather conditions. as reported by
the weather bureau. were as follows: Mean
Temperature Y degrees: mean relative hui
nudity, s. per cent: mean barometer (sea
leveD 80. 10: winds southerly; average. i've
miles an hour: the maximum velocity was
twelve miles. on the 18th III instant: me MAJ AK
imum Temperature was 80 degrees. on the
22d instant. and the minimum DO degrees,
on the 22d instant.