The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1916-02-10

physicians In making reports to reg
istration officials.
Diarrhea and enteritis caused 52,4o7'
deaths in 1914, or 1874 per 100000.
This rate shows a marked falling off as
compared with the rate for the pre-
nounced decline as compared with that
for 1900, which was 1892. Nearly five
sixths of the total number Of deaths
charged to these causes in 1914 were
Of infants under 2 years Of age.
Apoplexy was the cause OF 1,272
deaths, or 77.7 per 100000. The rate
from this malady has increased grad
since 1900, when it stood at SIS.
Arterial diseases Of various kinds
atheroma, aneurism, etc.--caused 49,
044 deaths, or 22.S per 100000, in the
registration area.
Decline Noted.
No epidemic disease produced a
death rate as high as Is per 100000 in
1914. The fatal cases Of diphtheria and
croup-which are classed together in
the statistics, but practically all of
which are of Observation-Disclosures
II, 1856, or 17.9 per 100000, in that
year, the rate having fallen from 43.3
in 1900. This decline of nearly SO per
cent is relatively greater than that
shown by any other important cause
of death. The rate has not fallen con-
tinuously, but has fluctuated some
what from year to year.
deaths. or 1862 per 100000. The rate
from TINS disease has risen almost con-
tinuously firm year to year since. 1900,
when 1t was 81 per 100000.
The mortality rate from typhoid
fever has shown a most gratifying de-
cline since 1900, having decreased from
35,9 per 100000 in that year to 1914 In
1914, or by 81 per cent. This decline
has been almost as great, relatively,
as that for diphtheria, and has been
greater than that for any other prin-
cipal cause Of death. The total num-
Der OF deaths due to typhoid fever in
1914 was 0,1S5. The marked decrease
In the mortality from this disease gives
emphatic testimony to the effective
ness Of present day methods, not only
or cure but OF prevention. The eff
ficacy Of improved water supply and
sewerage systems, OF the campaign
against the fly, and Of other sanitary
precautions Is strikingly shown by the
reduction Of the typhoid mortality rate
to the extent Of more than five -ninths
in IA years.
Fever.
The principal epidemic maladIes OF
MISUNDERSTANDING cough. measles
and scarlet fever-were together re-
sponsible for no fewer than 1857
deaths Of both adults and children, or
23.7 per 100, 600, in the registration area
in 1914, the rates for the three diseases
separately being 1913, 6.8 and 6.6, re-
spectfvely. In 1913 measles caused q
greater mortality than either Of the
other diseases, but in 1914 whooping
cough had first place. In every year
since and including 1910, as we'll as In
several preceding years, measles has
caused greater number of deaths
than the much more dreaded scarlet
fever. The mortality rates for all three
of these diseases fluctuate greatly from
year to year The rates for measles
and scarlet fever in 1914 were the low
est in Is years, while that for whoop-
ing cough was considerably above the
lowest recorded rate for this disease.
6.5 in 1904, although far below the
highest, 1873 in 1903.
Railway and Street Car Accidents.
Deaths due to railway accidents and
injuries totaled 1852, or 1877 per 100000
This NUMBER Includes fatalities result
ing from collisions between railway
trains and vehicles at grade crossings
The death rate from railway accidents
and injuries Is the lowest on record
and shows a most marked and graf
rate for 1913, which was Is per 100000,
and a still more pronounced drop from
the average for the five-year period
1906-l910, which was 15 per 100000.
Deaths resulting from street -car
accidents and injuries numbered 1878,
or 2.5 per 100000. This rate, like that
for railway fatalities, is the lowest on
record and shows material falling
off as compared with 1913, when It was
80 and as compared with the average
for the five-year period 1906-191O,
which was 81.
Suicides.
The numbers Of suicides reported In