Norwich bulletin., 1918-02-13
NORWICH HAD 27
 DEATHS IN DECEMBER.
Same Number of Marriages for the
 Four Week Period.

According to the health bulletin is- sued by the Connecticut state health department for the month of Decem- Der, the death summary is as follows: Total deaths for December, 1,610; death rate, 15.6; average death trate l for December last five years, 15.S; a1i- nual death rate 1916, 16.3; deaths from communicable diseases. 227; per cent. of total deaths, 14.0; deaths un- der 1 year. 252; rate per thousand births, S4.
 The deaths reported to the state department of health for the month ] of December, 1917, and also the births land marriages for November of the same year are as follows:
 Norwich: Living births 60, still births 1, maria eges T, total deaths 27, death rate IS, diphtheria 2, grip 1,
 tuberculosis 1, cancer 2, pneumonia 8,
 accident ?, deaths in institutions 5. New London: Living births 5s, still
 births 1, marriages 25, total deaths 2s, death rate 20, measles 2, whooping 12, meningitis 1. pneumonia 5, acci- dent 2, deaths in institutions g.
 Putnam: Living births IS, marriages
 10, total deaths il, death rate 11.4, tu- berculosis 1.
 Groton: Living births f. still births 1, marriages $, total deaths g, death
 rate 10.3, cancer 2.
 II Kiihngly: Living births il, mar riages If total deaths g, death rate 14.3, tuberculosis 1, cancer ?.
 | Plainfield: Living births IT, mar
 riages ', total deaths 8, death rate
 10.1, cancer 1, pneumonia g.. .i Win6ham: Living births 26, still births 1, marriages 8, total deaths 19
 death rate 14.3. tuberculosis 3, canee1 2, pneumonia 3. accident 1. deaths in
 institutions 4.
 J It seems incredible that for so many l years the state department of health had no official knowledge of what dis eases were occurring throughout the
 state until the monthly report of each
 health officer had been received, says
 the health bulletin. Even then the
 statistics were most meager-simpl5
 the number of each case reported
 Age, sex. occupation, probable source of infection-the very basis of usefu
 mortality statistics-were not obtain. ed.
 Full daily reports wifi not only in. form this department of the daily in. cidence of each communicable disease
 and furnish valuable data for statis. tical purposes, but they will also en. | able the state department to keel
 heolth officers informed of the preva ; lence of certain diseases in nearb, 2 towns. No doubt this will prove O. great value in the further control O } preventable diseases.
 , On par with the former scant nor
 bidity report is the lack of uniform j methods employed by health officers il the discharge of their duties. It is no rareeto find adjoining towns managin,
 similar communicable disease in :. l. widely different manner. Perhaps thi 7 is not to be wondered at when on, 7 considers that S5. per cent, of ou health officers devote only part of thei
 time to health work, and that tiner,
 has been no central supervision. Al
 result, they have been prone to es tablish their own standard. I | Chapter 1 of the new sanitary code t which should be ready for distribution :, 1 some time in February. gives defnit Il methods of control of all reportabi . diseases. This, too, should prove o ), value to every health officer and t : every individual within his jurisdic
 tien.