Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-19
'BELl-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Orepadkase proves fl. 2ses6 6aad dnsa agsE
oNE-THiRD OF DEATHS
 FROM THREE CAUSES
Shown in United States Statistics for
 5. the Reaistration Area.

According to preliminary an- nouncement with reference to mortal ity in 1914. issued by Director Sam l.. Rogers of the bureau of the census. l department of commerce, and compiled by Richard C. Lappin, chief statistician for vital statistics, more than 30 per cent. of the Sss,05s deaths reported for that year in the ''registration area, which contained about two-thirds of the population of the entire United States, were due to three causes heart disease, tuberculosis and pneu- monia--and more than 60 per cent. to Il cause.-the three just named, to- gether with Brights disease and me- phritis, cancer. diarrhoea and enteritis, apoplexy, arterial diseases, diphtheria, diabetes and typhoid fever.
 The deaths from heart disease Cor ganic diseases of the heart and endo- carditis9 in the registration area in 1914 numbered 99.543, or 1908 per 100,0 population. The death or mor- tality rate from this cause shows marked increase as compared with 1900, when 1t was only 12s1 per 10o,- GOO.
 s6,6oa from Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis in it's various forms claimed 96,903 victims in 1914 of which
 number S4,366 died from tuberculosis Of the lungs fncluding acute military | tuberculosis). As a result of a Gsore general understanding of the laws of | health, the importance of fresh air, etc, due in part, no doubt. to the eff forts of the various societies for the prevention of tuberculosis, there has been a most marked and gratifying de- | crease during recent years in the mor- | tality from this scourge of civilization. l In only decade-from 1904 to 1914- | the death rate from tuberculosis in all | it's forms fell from 200.7 to 146.S per | 100000, the decline being continuous | from year to year. This is a drop of
 more than 25 per cent Prior to 1904
 the rate had fiuctuated, starting at | 201.9 in 1900. Even yet however, tu- berculosis has the gruesome distinction | of causing more deaths annually than | any other form of bodily illness ex- cept heart disease, and over 40 per cent. more than all external causes
 accidents, homicides and suicides com
 bined.
 I Pneumonia Victims.
 Pneumonia Gncluding broncho-pneu- monia) was responsible for S3;S04
 deaths in the registration, area in 1914, or 127 per 100, 0,00o-the lowest rate on
 record. The mortality rate from this disease, like that from tuberculosis,
 has shown a marked decline since 1900,
 when it was 1905 per 100000. Its
 fluctuations from year to year; how | ever, have been pronounced, whereas
 the decline in the rate for tuberculosis
 has been nearly continuous.
 The only remaining death rate
 higher than 100 per 100, 900 in 1914 was
 that for Brights disease and acute
 nephritis. 1924. The total number of
 deaths due to these maladies in 1914
 was 67,545. more than nine-tenths ot
 which were caused by Bright's disease
 and the remainder by acute nephritis
 The mortality from these two causes
 increased from ss per 100. 900 in 1900 to 1884 in 1905, since which year il , has fuctuated somewhat
 Il Cancers and Turner's.
 |, in rrdo aF
 cancer and other malignant tumors
 which filled 52,420 graves in 1914 Oi
 these deaths, 19,ss9, or almost 3s pei
 cent, resulted from cancers of the
 stomach and liver. Tho death rate
 from cancer has risen from es. pel
 100. 900 in 1900 to 79.4 in 1914. The in-
 crease has been almost continuous
 there having been but two years
 1906 and 1911-which showed decline as compared with the years immedi- ately preceding. It is possible that al
 least a part of this indicated increase l is due to more accurate diagnoses and greater care on the part of physicians In making reports to registration off,
 cials
 Diarrhoea and enteritis caused 5z,4s1 deaths in 1914. or 7s.4 per 1oo, ,oo0. This
 rate shows marked falling of as compared with the rate for the pre- ]. ceding year. so.2, and very pro- , nounced decline as compared with that |
 sixths of the total number of deaths
 charged to these causes in 1914 were oi
 infants under years of age.
 .l Apoplexy was the cause of 51.27i
 deaths, or TIT per 100000. The rate
 from this ma1ady has increased grad | since 1900, when 1t stood at SIS. Arterial diseases of various kinds | atheroma, aneurism, etc.-caused 15,
 CA deaths, or 22.S per 100000. in the , | Pn afra fo-1
 No epidemic disease produced (
 death rate as high as IS per 100,0 in 1914. The fatal cases of diphtheris and croup-which are classed together , in the statistics, but practically all o1 which are of diphtheria-numbered IL. 7ss, or ITS per 100, 900, in that year l the rate having fallen from 43.3 1T 1900. This decline of nearly 59 pei cent. is relatively greater than that shown by any other important cause of death. The rate has not fallen con. } tinuously, but has fiuctuated somewha . from year to year.
 Diabetes was the cause of 10.66f deaths, or 16.2 per 100000. The ratt l from this disease has risen almost continuously from year to year since 2 1900, when it was s.7 per 100000 Less Typhoid Mortality. The mortality rate from typhoid f fever has shown a most gratifying de. ! cline since 1900, having decreased from . 35.9 per 100000 in that year to 15.. | in 1914. or by T per cent. This de. : cline has been almost as great, rela
 lively. as that for diphtheria, and ha.
 been greater than that for any othei ! principal cause of death. The tota 5 number of deaths due to typhoid fevel [ in 1914 was 10,185. The marked de ! crease in the mortality from this dis. , ease gives emphatic testimony to tn, 2 effectiveness of present day methods !, not only of cure but of prevention ! The efficacy of improved water sup ! ply and sewerage systems, of. the cam ! paign against the fly, and of othel , l sanitary precautions is strikingI,
 shown by the reduction of the typhoid mortality rate to the extent of mor, than fve-ninths in 14 years.
 s Maladies of Childhood. 2 The principal epidemic maladies O : -whoor1ng cough, measles ] and scarlet fever-were together re 8 sponsible for no fewer than I5Sl t deaths of both adults and children 8 or 237 per 100000 in the registratfoI a area in 1914. the rates for the thre. 8 diseases separately being 10.s, 6s an, ? 6.6. respectively. In 1918 measie y caused greater mortality than eithe s Eof the other diseases, but in is1