The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-01-17
HEALTH REPORT
FOR DECEMBER
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The death rate for December was
the highest since the corresponding
month OF 1907 when the same number
one deaths were recorded, including
twenty-five non-residents. This makes
our resident death rate l.ss per thous-
and and including all deaths the rate
reaches the high figure OF :42 per
Thousand population
Twenty-Five deaths occurred in hos
pitfalls and ten were returned by the
county coroner.
Thirty deaths occurred during tho
first fourteen days. which is about tho
average for December on December
18th nine deaths occurred. and eight on
Christmas aay. seventy-one deaths be-
ing returned for the last seventeen days
OF the month.
The greatest single factor in the high
twenty-one deaths more than twenty
per cent of the total number Other
leading causes were violence and
brights disease each causing eight
deaths. cancer and typhoid with seven
"-athS each. ApopleNy. heart disease
ana tuberculosis together were respon-
s.oIe Tor thirteen deaths. Twenty-eight
Oh the cecedents were more than sixty
ys.rs OF age
Deaths Under Rfvs Ysars.
Eighteen deaths occurred among in
fants and children under nve Six of
mes We're cause by Pneumonia. three
were due TO congenital debility. four of
diseases OF digestive system and two
10 contagious diseases.
Deaths over Sixty Years.
Twenty-eight deaths occurred among
people over sixty. Eight were due to
PNEUMONIA. tve to Bright's Disease
CanNer. violence. apoplexy and bronchi-
us caused two each. Asthma old age
each.
Deaths by Ares.
Under me month. D. enc mon.n 10 one
year .. one to five years. 8. typ 10
went: .. twenty. To forty. is: IIrty
I" siviy. 81: sity to seventy. IL. seventy
To- Eighty. H. and eighty To- ninety. 1.
Birth Rate.
Nlnety-four births were reported
making a monthly rat. of 22s or an
laton .
H.ihs We're reported 10y the follow
BAIRD, Pest j \. Campbell. cole. Etz.
Ter FULTON. Gaydosh. Gillespy. Hall
lianing. HaskinS. Hildreth. Iksrt.. Jep-
Myers. ! \ Monroe. VI. u Monroe Me
Coy. McMilien. \pome. JSburn. Pronty
Bed. Taylor Nieweg. Walden. and
Midwiyes Brozowski. Gross. Kits
hefg%r kuipa reported eigh; births.
Contagious Diseases.
one hundred and nftS-ninc cases
W." reported. including On--hundred
ana ten cases at measles. tweuty-nine
81 diPn'hcIia. four Of scarlet fever
seven 81 chickcn-IpN. three. 90 whOop-
Ing c'usht ana six of mumps Five
deaths occurred from utagion making
n case mortality 81 q little over thre .
per cen, for contagious diseases
D.phtherin.
twenty cases OF this disease
wee reported. During November forty
'ight cases Mere reported. I'm October
seventy 'wu and In September forty
iii' THIS would seem to indicate that
the dirnth"ria epidemic will soon be
thing of the past
l'ufing IN" siN months ending be
S'mh"r 81 there have been 225 cases
Win u deaths. which Is less than six
i'-r cent. ANA - considered low How
ever tn" majority Of tho I3 deaths
were really due To- ignorance or neglect
Thre" deaths occurred during de-
c"frh"r. The nrst ease was less than
Nv" years and Vas practically dead
when hrSf seen ~ "a physician. living
'i.lt = lew hours The second case died
WITHIN twelve hours OF the tim. the
nisct~" wa recognized a. diphtheria
III" mind death w+s due to a compit-
'dting meningitis or brain fever
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