Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-01-30

centaee occurred in January, with February April, March and May fol- lowing in order.
 June and August had he lowest per- eentase each. while September. 0cta- Der and November showed a decided upward progress toward the cold weather level.
 Among the other curious revelations made by the hospital books. o4e of the most interesting concerns pncu- monia. Contrary 10 the general im- pression that this is peculiarly winter disease. the records at Flower show that il lourishes most vigor- ously in the spring and early sum- mer There were 112 ambulance calls to pneumonia cases on the years record March furnished the largest number, which is not sur priaine, but the next most prolific months in this respect were April and May while June had as many . cases as October Every month in the year contributed to the pneumo- nia quota Even July had one case, while August had six, greater num- Der than either January or Febru- ary. Pleurisy was in much the same case, March and April providing F of the tWenty-three cases in which ambulance service was called upon for victims of this disease, while in- f1uenZa struck down six of it's thir- ten ambulance cases in April, and only two in the first three months of the year.
 Shooting cases of which there were 23, were pretty evenly distributed through the year Every month had at least one, and the largest number in any one month was four in No- vember July furnished three victims of this kind. Stabbing, on the oth- CT hand, was distinctly a summer di- ! ver7'on, nine of the eighteen cases occurring in May and June. July had none, howa-er, neither had Jan uary, February, March or September Eight cases of dog bite were widely distributed, without respect to sea ! son. February and July had two each; March, May, September and Oc- tober each one.
 Burns were most frequent in the three summer months, in which the ambulance service recorded 29 cases. as against 26 in all the others togeth- CT. August had more cases of this kind than July, and June as many; January and February had the few est.
 Cases of gas asphyxiation, suicidal and accidental, numbered 33, pretty evenly distributed, with March, June and November slightly ahead of the other months, and January and Feb ruary again in the rear Poisoning cases, mostly attempts at suicide by the use of carbolic acid and drugs, numbered 2S, most numerous in Au- gust, September and October. There appears to be popular preference for self-destruction during the pleas anter seasons of the year, the half dozen cases entered as ''attempted suicide without standardization oc- curing in these months; also two suicides by throat-cutting.
 Victims of immersion were also not unnaturally most numerous in the summer, although September had more cases (fve) than any other month, and August had none.
 Another interesting record of var iation shown by the ambulance books IS that of the hours at which calls are most frequent. An examination of the entries for October and Novem- Der shows that the hour between II a. m. and noon is the busiest for the ambulances.
 Seventy-three of the 919 calls re- ceived in those two months came in during that hour The auietest hour was that between and a. m. which