Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-01-10
HEALTH REPORT or, WILLmAR
The Following is Synopsis Of the
Health 0fhcer's Report Of the
City of WiIlmar for the
Past Year.

80 births reported, males SO, fe-
males 80, total 80. In 1909, 1O3
births were reported; in 1910, 80.
The total number of deaths report
ed in the city for 1911 were 80. The
death rate is about 7.12 per thou
sand on a basis Of a population Of
$500, still births, those under one
week and those by. violence being ell
minated. The death rate is low. That
Of the city Of St. Paul, Mimi, one
Of the healthiest cities in the U. S.,
is l0.15. The birth rate is 20 per
thousand, about the average number
in this country, but much less than
III Germany and Austria where it is
from 36 to As per thousand.
There were four deaths of those
over 20 years Of age and one .over
80 years. The number of deaths
from contagious diseases among chill
dren is much less than it was some
years ago. Typhoid fever, cancer
and suicide, one Of each; four from
cerebral hemorrhage, none from
small pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria,
or measles; two from bronchial pneu-
monia. tuberculosis led the list in
1910 and also in 1911-fve deaths.
In case Of two Of the deaths report
ed the disease was contracted out
side OF the city. In the state at
large 10 per cent of all deaths are
from tuberculosis. 49,.
The local Society for the Relief
and Prevention of tuberculosis, a
branch Of the Minnesota Association,
under the able and faithful manage
ment of Mrs. George E. Thomas, has
been doing good work among all
those requiring aid during the past
year with the funds kindly furnish
ed by the County Commissioners. The
Society has been able to employ a
visiting nurse, Mrs. A. O. Sather,
during part Of the time, and she has
been of great service and comfort
to those who required assistance
and advice. It is to be hoped that
the County Commissioners will see
fit to provide funds during the COM
ing year so that a visiting nurse may
be employed who will cover the whole
county and who is specially trained
Tor the work zss.,s,.sers...s-ss,s..
As was stated in my report Of
1910, I do not think that as vet we
have made much, if any, advance
in the control Of tuberculosis. The
number Of cases Of consumption re-
mains about the same and probably
will for some years. If we are ever
going to stamp it out, we will have to
have institutional treatments in hos
pitals for incurable cases where the
hopeless cases would receive the best
kind OF care and treatment. At pres
ent we have few such places in the
State and there ought to be one in
every Congressional district, so that
the disease will not be handed over
to persons in the same family or
those associated in the home. In
many cases the financial resources
OF the family are strained to the ut
most in taking care Of the consump-
tive and the State ought to relieve
them of part of the expense at least,
when necessary. Even among those
that are well-to-do the case of a
consumptive is great expense.
Then what must it be among those
who are not so well situated either in
having suitable accommodations for
the case or in having the necessary
means to give it to them? The State
Sanatoria at Walker is only for
those cases that can be benefited by
treatment, or are considered durable.
The duration of sickness among
those whose deaths are reported was
from several years to four months,
the latter being. the shortest time.