Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-11

land show the reported cases of in
 from intuenza a1n and and IaHnanos pnnunonia aBs 6g pneumonia by age groups; and the number of influenza and pneumonia
 deaths, with death rate. i'll individual
 towns of more than 1000 population 1 While these tables illustrate the
 course of the epidemic during its most violent period, they do not show, lits full effects, for many thousand ;
 thousand deaths. occurred in this state during the first four months of the present year. Many months must elapse beforei fully authenticated apartment of health to compile com plete and accurate data of Connecti- cuts toll in the great pandemic. Showing the way the influenza and ous age periods are the following fig ures of deaths: Under 1 year. 4s0; l from 1 to years. S10; from to 9 years, 24o; from 10 to IA yeads. ssc; 24 years. $50; from 25 to 2s ye.-s, 1900; from 30 to s9 years. 223e; / n 40 to 4s years. 710; from 50 to. B years, zS s5o: from m @ sd to ss years. sla; Comparison of the deaths from all causes from Sept. to Dec. 2s in 1917 with the same period in 1918, which was while the influenza epidemic was
 
 deaths in this period of 1917 was 6oo3; in 1918. 14.o57. an increase of 8 sD54. The heaviest toll fell upon those ce- tween the ages of 20 and 40 years. The total deaths among this group in 1917 was S5S; in 1918. 5.64s. This repre- sents nearly so per cent. of all the deaths re-ulting from influenza and pneumonia.
 In the towns of this section of the state. the deaths from influenza and pneumonia and rate per 1000 popu!a tion is given as follows:
 Norwich-September 39. Octobcr 223; rate T.6.
 s New London-September 51. Octo- Der 142, November 2S, December 14; total 235; rate 9.1.
 Groton-September 6. October 26, November II. December 8; total 51; rate TO.
 windham-Septembe IT. October 127. November 2. December 6; total
 Killingly- 5. October 22. November 6. December |; total s4; rate 4.5.
 September ?. October 24, November Is. December 3; total 47; rate 5.6.
 Stafford September Q. October 4, November 6. December 2; total 12; rate 19
 31, November ?. December II; total 47: rate A.
 The epidemic of influenza was a blasting thing, many times more de- -vastating than the war. It was p,r- portionately as harmful to the popu- laticn of Connecticut as Wcs any year of the war to any of the oeiliger- ents. engaged. Consideration Of f'-e effect of the epidemic must not with the mere enumeration of L..e deaths. Its sinister characteristic was that it took the strong and .&e al / It took the potential fathes5 1ni m. thers. Passing lightly the very young and almost ignoring the old if aimed straight at the very flower of the flock. selecting the ones on whom the ra*r depends for it's present economic strength and it's future replacement.
 Statistics show the visibIs effects of the epidemic, but they cannot show the vital and fundamental fact 3f r / cia1 and national life. The vast arnl of the unborn. lost to the race oy the dea athss of potential parents IT'S b@ accounted the great inviSiD'e eOll cf the epidemic. person dying turing deficit side of population stot;st cs Cor a period of twenty five or thu ty years: a baby not born figures for fifty or sixty years. The sum Of the dead. i ghastly as it is in a human way. and devastating as it is in an econol,i~ way, is negligible in the lime of. / state compared to the effect of s.- '. fuenza on our future birth rate.
 The great outstanding fac. of the 1 epidemic is this:
 Despite the frightful toll of inf1uen ga, the death rate for the year 1919 i was no higher than in the yeors bcf>~e ! the various states had established public health. i