The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-25
Finance, e,RealEStatea and Insurance

single cause, but in that year and during the period 1914-1917 the nor tality from tuberculosis was less than that from heart diseases, and in 1917 it fell below that from pneumonia also.
 Bright's disease and acute nephritis caused S0,912 deaths, or 1O7.4 per cent per 100000. The mortality rate from these diseases has increased from S9 per 100000 in 1900, with some fluctuations from year to year. and since 1914 the increase has been continuous.
 Apoplexy was the cause of 62,431 deaths. or s2.9 per 100000. The rate from this disease increased grad ually, with occasional slight declines, from 1900 to 1912, and since 1913 the increase has been continuous.
 Cancer and other malignant tumors caused 61.452 deaths, of which mum Der 23,413 or 3S per cent, resulted from cancer of the stomach and liver. The rate from cancer has risen from
 63 per 100000 in 1900 to S1.6 in 1917. The increase has not been continuous. there having been three years-1906, and 1911 and 1917- which showed declines as compared with the years immediately preceding The decrease in 1917 as compared with 1916, however, was very slight from SIS to S1.6. It should be borne in mind that at least a part of the increase in the death rate from can cer may be apparent rather than real.
 being due to a greater degree of ac- curacy in diagnosis and to greater care on the part of physicians in making reports to registration off, cials.
 Diarrhea and enteritis caused 59,-
 g04 deaths, or 79 per 100000 The rate from his cause has fallen some
 what in recent years, having been
 s0.2 in 1913, and is much lower than
 the corresponding rate for 1900 which
 was 1882. More than four-fifths of
 the total deaths charged to these
 causes in 1917 were of infants under two years of age.
 Arteria1 diseases of various kinds atheroma, aneurism, etc.-resuIted in 19,O55 deaths, or 25.3 per 100000 The rate from these causes increased continuously from 6.1 in 1900 to 25. 6 in 1912, since which year it has f1uc- tuated somewhat without showing any pronounced change.
 Influenza was responsible for 12974 deaths, or 17.2 per 100000 This rate is the highest shown for any epidemic disease in 1917, but is much lower than the corresponding one for the preceding year, 26.4 per 100000. The influenza rate, which fuctuates l greatly, was higher in 1901, when it stood at 32.2, than in any subse- | quent year prior to the occurrence of | the recent epidemic.
 Deaths from diabetes numbered 12,750, or 16.s per 100000. The l rate from this disease although slight
 1y lower than in 1916, has risen aI- | most continuously since 1900, when 1 1t was 9.7.
 Next to that for influenza. the | highest rate appearing for any cpl demic disease in 1917 was for diph- theria, 16.5 per 100000, representing 12, 453 deaths. The rate from this 1 disease was somewhat higher in 1917, ! than in the preceding year, when 1t
 stood at 14.5 per 100000.
 Bronchitis caused 12,311 deaths, or 16.3 per 100000. This rate is lower than that for any preceding year ex- cept 1916, when it was 16.2. The proportional decline from 1900, for
 which year the bronchitis rate was
 45.7, to 1917. amounting to 64 per cent, was greater than that shown for any other important cause of death.
 Typhoid EeseF. Typhoid fever resu1tsd in 1e,11s deaths. or 13.4 per 1O0. 900, The mortality rate from this canee also hao 1hown . remn<11E1o reduof5ou senne 14qe, Nhen lf Nne zhe pre5
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