Arizona republican., 1908-05-15

system account for the greatest num- | Der of deaths, tuberculosis of course always excepted. If a given person dies of a nervous complaint the chances are stronger that he was a resident of the Empire state than of any other section, since no other ap- breaches New York in the number of deaths from this cause.
 In the number of deaths from ty phoid fever Pennsylvania leads all other states with 56.5 deaths per 1OO. 900 to the total. Maryland comes second with 40.5 per cent. In malarial fever, a cause of death which by the way is steadily on the decrease, In diana leads among the states, while the largest number of deaths from smallpox occur in California. a fact largely due to the incomers from the Orient.
 Measles, disease generally supposed to be peculiar to childhood, claims it's greatest number of victims in Penn sylvania, with Connecticut a close sec ond. Scarlet fever, according to the latest figures, caused the greatest per centage of deaths in Colorado with Rhode Island next Maryland contrib utes the greatest number of deaths from whooping cough, the large ma jority being among the negroes, with Rhode Island second. Deaths from in fluenza are most common in New Jer- sey, and those from cancer in Califor- mia. Suicide is responsible for more deaths in California than in any other state. with New Jersey and COnnectf- cut following close behind.
 In the great majority of the north ern states, negroes furnish almost twice as high a death rate as whites from every cause, and in this fact those who search for a solution of the negro problem may find the same an swer which has been given to the h. dian question, namely gradual elim- ination.
 As between urban and rural life, the place for those who wish to postpone death longest from whatever cause IS without doubt the country. It IS true that certain rare forms of typhus; Tn whooping cough, measles, croup ana other diseases peculiar to childhood the rural districts show preponder- ance of deaths, due to the fact Is shown by the census figures that there is a much larger proportion of chll- dren in the country. In the cltles' however those diseases supposed 10 be peculiar to advanced civilization far outstrip the country in number or deaths they cause. Tuberculosis, ty- phoid. pneumonia and cancer are only q few of the ills to which flesh is helr to which man succumbs in greater numbers in the great metropolitan dls- tricts.
 To the student of the causes or death every case is indicative of locallty' and it is not difficult job to guess m the average of a large number or cases. where the deceased lived pro vided the cause of death be given Such facts for instance as that more persons died last year in San Fran cisco from whooping cough than rom tvphoid, that Chicago is the greatest influenza center, that New York IS particularly noted for its deaths rom mumps and measles, the two most deadly ms" and that in PhlladeIphld more people died of typhoid every year than from any other cause-aIl these enable the amateur detective or the causes of death to locate pretty ac- curatelv the residence of at least seven out of ten persons deceased, provided the cause of their deaths be known.