The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-01
HEALTH EXPERTS
/, DRIVING TYPHOID
. FEVER FROM STATE
LESS tuberculosis Also
Shown by Vital Sta
tistics Report.
|PELLAGRA. DEATHS
CAUSE FOR ALARM
More Victims From Newly dag
noscd Disease in Virginia Than
IN Other Statcs-Number OF
Births More Than Don-
bic Number of
Deaths.

Vital Statistics Of Virginia
Dcnths I'm year,
1 Total ............... 2s,49i
BW White ............. 1G.50S
8l# Soiored li:ns3
White denth rntc tc.......-..... 1l.t
Coiorcd death rate. .-.,....... Ie.1
~ Deaths from tuberculosis. 3,44G
j. Denths from pciinHrn. I45
- Deaths from typhoid. ...... Els
births In year. .......... 90 -.'o-
& Marked decrease in tho ravages of
yphoid fever and Of tuberculosis and
!. alarming spread or pellagra are tho
lient health conditions in Virginia
- sclosed BY the Grst annual report or
10 huS.au or vital statistics, which
Il y. 51e53<f] ardcd 10 Governor Mann yes
T. Il tho annual report OF state
49, - mmissioner. DR. Ennion q.
- ia thirteen years the number
r. - ~ j8 from typhoid fever has
I2 * =. .e, ,E<l53R3 III Ola In 1900 10 dis ia 1919
80 there has been 4 material in
Slf6 population during that time
49,, gFH, winch was only recently
4$73 ~ ~ the state Board ct liealtn
~ admits that II faces ono OF
r. 88 serious problems OF pubic
5# this State. There were I45
~ - - - 'ni thts disease In Virginia
TX ne fourth as muuy as from
- ~ -. = ever. making rate OF Us
1000 OF population. This
If3E more than tne average rnte
- AK $B3n of the States
:, = |a32.ss the cause OF this pellagra
- - - ventioa are shortly discov
jsS e$1|s Or. Williams. "ihc state
- laltn vii, md - one OF the
F. t3e119~Sss5g3 aisSases = has 70 ngh..
8 The mor:alNSy y OF pcllngra is practical
~ ly 100 per Cant.
- War on White plague.
a$ Tho succcSs of the hght against tu-
~ bercu.osis is shown by 4 decrease IN
Ihe number Sf cases IN the State. al
hough .he r'hite plague rerlains tho
la8 8rreatest scoarge or all. In 1912 there
r. 4wero s,6S1 c1ses or tuberculosis and in
1913 but S,2Ji reported. Estimates by
he hoarl III 1905 placed the number
Hpf cases n l2.l27, mGking<an apparent
decrease In the n,orbidity OF THIS dis
~ ease IF 3.:i6 in iire years. These iig
i-es. the report Idds arc not believed
l2 o be accurate. although it is certain
hct there were fewer cases IN 1913
han IN any yea. since the orgar.za-
3& on Of the Health department
tuberculosis. deupite tho reduction
I&a cling made In it's ~. wages, continues TO
z lead the mortality list 1t claimed II
kotai OF 1924 victims in 1913. These
1 5cathS We're divided AS follows: total
cnths from pulmonary tuberculosis.
4s, OF this number 1925 being white
A1d 1,72s colored: death from other
rms OF tuberculosis. a7S. The bale
~ feature OF these figures is tho fact
81 tuberculosis claimed moro negroes
- ! whites, although the whites out :
nber the colored population or the
TO more than two 10 one. The rate
whites is as.4 per 10000 popula ton.
ag Se6 less than the general avor-
In States reported to tho Federal
ornmcnt The rate for the negroes
l1zfH R4& Sc. three times tho rate for the
<3 tes. The State rate is l4s. which
49, Aen times greater than the rate for
rest or tho country. The terrible
slity among the negroes is rcspon-
- for this abnormal State rate
= .fo4s ConqnerinE Typhoid.
R5It11 4k& directors OF the bureau OF vital
tics estimate that fully 90 per
g of tho deaths which occurred in
4B4 tate In the twelve months from
~ Il, 1912, TO June 30. 1913, have been
( od. but iigure that only about 50
[aI6z ~ 1t OF all births were reported
report shows that there were 2S :
|64{33I seaths In Virginia during this ne
3, divided as follows: whites 16.5oS.
- pred. 1l.ss2 This gives a dea III
> or ia for the white population.
Tor the colored population, and a
q rate OF i54. This is an exceed
- ratifying death rate being far
> or than tho average for tho rest OF
States
urther subdivision OF the mortality
49, 9,res show the following:
Deaths from Tuberculosis, $40,
I}{4 )eaths from typhoid fever, Sts
,eaths from diDhtheria, 210.
,rat,s from peiiaErn, 145.
this from pneumonia. Ellis.
ths from infant discnsen, 5,fGN.
,ictdcs. 2i5.
- sdes, 1874.
dental deaths, 1886.
rate :or typhoid fever has been
k,2<xoI from i9.S per 100. 900 persons
r. }, to 24.+ per 100000 persons II
3 This astonishing headway
typhoid is ascribed to better
ION, more enlightened public,
- 9eR ire carefully guarded water sup
~ ne dtphtheria rate Is l21 per
6eyo, when is 6.S less ;han the
- rage OF other States Keeping vital
istics.
Many Iomlc7dcs.
neumona, with its e.118 victims
KS next to tuberculosis in its NOR
(. rhe rate Is s?.7 per 100 600
ms IN tho State, rnta that is rav-
SO when compared to the rate of
computed by the Federal census
the Federal registration area. rho
for infants under one ysar is
per 1000 of population of that
Diarrhea and enteritis, the most
ed OF infantile diseases, nave a
or dS.3 per 1000 among children
or the age of two. This is slightly
IMAM the Federal figures for the
Of the Statea.
80 homicide ratio In Virginia Is
ontinued On Third Page.)