The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-16
STATE WAS HEAL THY DURING PAST MONTH.
Only 1,43S Deaths as Against 1.632 in 1912-Death Rate For July Falls Below the Average

According to the report of the State Board of Health for the month or July. the month was an unusually healthy one for the State as Wnoie, there being but 1, ,43S deaths during the month This was 227 more than in June and 1894 less than in July Of last year, and 121 less than the aver age number of deaths in July for the five years preceding. The deathrate, compiled on an annual basis, was 15.5 per thousand for the large towns, Tor the small towns 13.7, and for the whole est deathrate was Enfield, with a rate of 2e7, and the town having the low est was Stratford, with 1.9
 The causes of death were as fol- lows: Measles, 13; scarlet fever, B; la grippe, l; cerebro spinal fever. ?; aiphrheria and croup. IS; whooping cough, 12: erysipelas. 3; typhoid fever, IS; malariRl fever, 2; diarrhoea under five years, 21s; diarrhoea over five years, 20: consumption, 11O; pneumonia, S9: bronchitis. II: diseases of nervous system, 150; heart disease, 150; accl- dental violence, 124; all other causes, ss4- Of the total number of deaths, s7l were under one year in age, and 1os between one and five years.
 The reports of infectious diseases show that whooping cough is epidemic in Cornwall, Beacon Falls, Salisbury and Saybrook, no estimate being given on the number of cases. Other in- fectfous diseases reported follow Smallpox, cases in two towns; meas les. S26 in fifty-one towns; scarlet fever, T6 cases in twenty-six towns; cerebro spinal fever. one case in Mill ford; infantiie paralysis, cases m m four towns; diphtheria and croup. 90 cases Tn thirty-four towns; typhoid fever. TIT cases in thirty-four towns; consumption, 174 cases in forty-six towns.
 The bulletin also contains the fol- lowing by Dr. Joseph H. Townsend, secretary of the board, on the report ling and care of tuberculosis:
 we wish to call the attention of physicians to the change made by the Hast Legislature in the law concerning ahe reporting and care of tuberculosis. Tn case of the vacation of any house or apartment by the death or removal of a person having tuberculosis, it be- came under the original act the duty of the attending physician, or owner, or occupant or the person having charge of such premises to notify the local health officer The law as amended now places the sole responsi~ physician. and the amended section reads as follows:
 "Tn case of the vacating of any apartments or premises, by death, by s person having tuberculosis, the phy- Rfcian signing the death certificate, s1r in case of the removal therefrom of any such persons, the attending Fhysician, if any, or if there be none. 4he person having charge of such apart fMaents or premises, shall. within .tWen- E #y-four hours after such death or re- &nova1 give notice thereof to the { &ealth officer of the city, town, pr ! Borough wherein such apartments or Premises are located, and such apart \ #aents or premises so vacated shall not &gaIn be occupied until duly disfnfect- Ed, cleansed. or renovated as herein liter provided
 "We have a supply of leaflets giving \ shis law in full. which we can furnish bealth officers for distribution to the bhysicians of their towns