The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-03-12
STATE DISCUSSES
ITS PNEUMONIA
ONE OF THE IMPORTANT CAUSES
OF DEATH TAKEN UP BY
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
REPORT.

In its recently published annual re-
port, that of 1910. the state board OF
health of Michigan takes up the ques-
ton of its pneumonia giving it consid
GRAFTON for individual years. and fur
nishing tables covering six years, with
something above 10000 cases consid-
cred. Pneumonia is one of the most
important causes of death. and appears
az large factor in infant mortality.
In the more congested cities the death
rate is more than twice that of the
less thicxly settled districts, the figure
l6l deaths per lOOO 900 Of population be-
ing the average for cities of more
than $4,000 inhabitants, while for other
districts the death rate is only II.
Twenty Thousand Cases.
The twenty Thousand cases covering
six years and the mortality for twelve
years both point TO a seasonal run Of
pneumonia during the winter. July
and August present minimum figures of
recurrence and mortality with almost
| the same conditions remaining through
September. The rise is quite gradual
! through November and December, the
number is large in January, February
and March with the maximum in the
second month, and in April May and
June there is a steady decline to the
minimum again. in age groups this
large number OF cases presents about
one quarter of the mortality in in
| fants Of less than one year. with thir-
| ty-seven per cent dying before the
age of five. The two next periods, to
twenty-five and thence TO forty nine
have respectively nine and sixteen per
cent, and the mortality in persons be-
tween fifty and seventy -four is equal
to that of infants. Only twelve per
cent OF the whole mortality is among
the old, those above seventy-five.
\ curious age feature here seems to
be that whether fatal or non-fatal. the
females catch pneumonia about three
years later than the males the average
ages respectively for the recoyeries be-
ing twenty-seven years and twenty
four and for the deaths. thirty-foul
and thirty-one. With respect to dura-
| llOH III lliHtsS inc ihlNiiiStii iNPph
gives some pretty definite figures baseC
on about 1900 cases. Seventy seveT
per cent Of the mortality was in The
first two periods of five days, forty
two and thirty-fve respectively, will
eleven per cent passing away I'm thu
next five days. Those who recovered
were almost all of them sick the en-
tire first five days, with nearly hal
of them recovering between ten day
and fifteen and fifteen per cent Of th
whole number in each of the five-da
periods preceding and following. TIL
igures are not sensibly different 70
males and females and they point di
rectly to the suggestion that If tn
patient can be carried over eight or tel
days his chance of recovery improve
rapidly day by day. 1t is important
! recognize the disease al the earlies
moment and to care constantly In tn
early recognition there would seem I
be the possibility Of diminished NOR
tally.
Causes of Disease.
An attempt is made i'm this consider
alton to review the causes of predispo
sition to pneumonia. In about half c
seven thousand tabulated cases it fol
lowed cold. In one-eighth of tn
4, cases, an attack of Influenza. and /