New-York tribune., 1907-11-26
DEATH Rate INCREASES
Great Number of VictimS of Organic
Heart Disease.

The report for the third quarter of this year by
the Health Department sent out yesterday.
Il distinctly mortuary announcement, and
showed that the deaths up to October were 90
IS9. increase of 700 the period of
last year. which means also an increase in the
death rate not exactly corresponding to the estl-
mated increase In population. The Health De-
partment makes the estimates Of population almost
with perfection. II had the population on Oc-
tober lans 4152 SSo: for October l, 1901 4s5,-
42o. The death rate last yoar 1857 a thousand;
this year II 1856 The departments correct
ed list shows the niue months rate last year as
1911 this year 1747. In the corrected list non
residents and infants under one week old are
not included This rate shows retrOgTessicn OF
70. not small showing. The report says in part:
Comparing the number - deaths from the
principal and AZ certain age groups with
those Of the preceding aunquennIal averages Of
the corresponding quarters. corrected to corre-
spnnd with the Increased Populn tion. the follow
ing decreases will no founo: Typhoid fever. 50:
naIarial fever. 4; smallpox. :; whoopng cough
10; dphtheria and Group. 80; pulmonary tuber-
culosIs -; all other forms Of tuberculosis, g.
meningitis 93 apoplexy S6; acute bronchitis l0a;
lobar pneumonia. Hf; Brights disease and acute
nephritis 49, old age. 80; sunstroke. 80; suicide
Il: between the ages OF five years and sixty-hve
in general, 50.
1T was natural that the decreases should come
first The increases we're follows: Measles. l06;
scarlet fever. 49, Influenza s.; cancer "a; organic
heart diseases. S62; broncho pneumonia, 327; diar
rhuas under five years of ass; accidents other
than sunstrokc, AZ; homicide, IS: under five years
OF age. 81; sixty-fIve years ana over. 14T.
The increase in the deaths from measles the de-
partrnent accounts for in a general way due
to "unexplainable causes" The scarlet fever in
crease may he accounted for by tho Increase In
population. but tho same cannot be said of or
ganic heart disease. broncho-pneumonia or diar-
rhoeas under five years OF age.
Tho heart disease increase. II said at the
department yesterday. would no doubt show an
alarming increase in the last quarter because Of
the money strlngency and the tumble I'm stocks.
But the weak hearts. II also said. would show
a marked strengthening after the first OF the year
This paradoxical condition. II was explained would
be due 70 tho natural retrenchment following a
monetary smashup. a curtailment In sumptuary
freedom all along the line, from feeding, solid and
liquid. abstention from extravagances in clothing
and other adornnents The authority In the city
mortuary facts said that the panic would re-
suit, after the colapses caused by it, in a marked
decrease in the death rate.
The report was significant in respect. ac
cordng 10 a member OF the Health Department.
While the deaths from tuberculosis were 226S,
from organic heart disease l517, and from Brghts
disease and nephrits 1,242 from diarrhmes under
i've years they were Ass. more than onc-lfth OF
the total number Of deaths The department at
tributes this great number to watet and milk.
This does not mean that the water supply is i'm
pure that the milk is necessarily infected. but
it does mean. according to the department. that
families do not the proper care in providing
food for children.
In analysis of the report the department
shows the following: Deaths under year, 6,5ot;
one year and under two, 152g the total under
five. ala. Or almost half of the deaths in the
great city. The male deaths were n.cs9 females
1850 Among the negroes there were 5s5 deaths
and among the Chinese 90. The report also showed
that the deaths in tenement houses were O22S
I'm institutions. 62S2; in dwellings. 1889; In hotels
142: other places 5S.
The deaths from violence numbered l365 which
are divided follows: Sunstroke. 81: other acct
dents $50: homicide. 8: suicides $50 Then there
were 'Ill defined causes which claimed 3O5 vic
Tins and TO show that there were residents Of the
great city able TO evade all of the many ordinary
death shafts the report encouragingly remarks:
Deaths from old age, 49,