The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-04-01
State Board of Health Reports
$3.50 Deaths During Last
Quarter of Year 1903
TUBERCULOSIS CLAIMS MANY
Closing Months of the Year Show an
Increase in the Number of Deaths
From Dread Disease Report
is Interesting

Comparing the mortality reports for
the months Of October, November and
December, 1908, with the similar period
for the year 1907, the State Board Of
Health finds there was an increase Of
Lightweight deaths from tuberculosis, a.
decrease of nineteen from typhoid
fever, an increase of thirty eight from
diphtheria, decrease Of one from scar
let fever, an increase Of six from meas
les, an increase Of five from whooping
cough, decrease of ffty-six from
pneumonia, an increase of ffty-four
from cancer, and a decrease Of forty
eight from violence.
During the last three months of 1908,
6336 deaths were reported to the Board,
corresponding to an annual death rate
of 1919 per 1000 of population During
the same three months Of 1907, 6053
deaths were reported This increase
for 1908 is attributed in the quarterly
bulletin of the Board to "accuracy in
reports. Dividing the state into three
sections, the Board estimates the death
rate in the northern section of the state
at 90 per thousand; the central section
at 1913 and the southern section at .11.2.
The bulletin says it is the Board s
opinion that the rates shown in the
three sections are Indicative of the com
parative healthfulness Of those districts
and that cit is to be expected that the
death rate from communicable diseases
should be higher in the regions where
the density Of the population is the
greatest.
Of the 6336 deaths for the period
covered by the report issued, pulmonary
tuberculosis caused 480; other tubercu-
losis, 81; typhoid fever, 96; diphtheria,
142; scarlet fever, %; measles, IL;
whooplng cough, %; pneumonia, 451;
meningitis, 1929; cancer, 1923, and VIC
lence, $40.
Considering deaths from violence,
we find that 81 resulted from suicide, 20
from drowning, "a from railroad acct
dents, Is from street car accidents, 40
from accidental shooting, 20 from
burns, 4 from homicide, from explo-
sions, from falls, 2 from cyclones, |
from freezing, l killed by automobile,
] from lightning, and by corn shred
der, says the report. Classifying the
deaths by age groups we find that 1247
or 10 per cent. of the total, were of
people under l year of age; 381, or 6
per cent, were of persons 1 to years,
inclusive; 1899, or 81 per cent, were
persons over IS years of age.
In Milwaukee county, during the
three last months of 1908, there were
1850 deaths; 270 af them of persons
under ! year; IA between the ages of
and inclusive; 305 Of persons over
65 years of age. Principal causes of
death were: Pulmonary tuberculosis,
1872; other tuberculosis, 10; typhoid
fever, "a; diphtheria, %; scarlet fever,
70; measles, 5; whooping cough l.;
pneumonia, 90; diarrhoea and enteritis
(under years of age), 81; meningitis,
%; cancer, SIS violence, 70, and still
births, 100.
There were 1855 cases Of infectious
diseases in Milwaukee county during
the same period-or diphtheria, 203
cases and % deaths; typhoid fever, $50
cases and Is deaths; whooping cough
80 cases and l DEATH smallpox, cases );
scarlet fever, 260 cases and 10 deaths ;
measles, 181 cases and deaths; tuber-
culosis, 191 cases and 1872 deaths, men
nights, cases and deaths.