The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
MORE COMMUNICABLE DISEASE
Increase of "a Cases Over July
But Less Than June.
In Eight Months Al Persons
Have Died of Cancer.

Fifty-four cases of communicable
disease were reported to the city
health department for the month OF
August, an increase OF twenty-four
cases over the previous month, AMI
eleven cases less than were reported
for June, according to the monthly re-
port of DIR. Earle G. Brown, This does
not include social diseases nor tuber-
culosis.
The Second and the Fifth wards re-
ported the largest number of cases.
thirteen and fifteen respectively.
Fifty-three of the cases were white. Of
which thirty-three were male and
twenty were female. One colored case
was reported.
Diphtheria ranked first in the num-
Der of cases reported, with a total of
seventeen. an increase of twelve over
the previous month. Five OF the cases
were adults and four were children
under school age. One case resulted
fatally, and two carriers were de-
tected and quarantined during the
month
Whooping cough ranked second
with twelve cases reported. Eight of
these were children under school age
and one was an adult.
Scarlet fever ranked next with six
cases, two of them being adults. Four
eases of typhoid fever were reported.
Two of these cases were contracted
out of the city.
Three cases of chickenpox were re-
ported, two of them being contracted
out of town. Tetanus claimed two
cases, one of them proving fatal.
Other cases reported in the communi-
cable class were: Pneumonia, 4; cry
sipelas, !; mumps, contracted out OF
the city. l. trachoma, 2.
Thirteen Cases of T. b.
III .l,,-s
reported for August. twelve. resident
and one nonresident. - Six of these
were male and seven female Five
deaths resulted from it, four Of them
male and one female. ~
OF the nineteen cases of fumigations
made, eleven were for diphtheria, two
for scarlet fever, two for typhoid
fever and four miscellaneous. Twen-
ty-six cases of social diseases were re-
ported.
The number -ot visits to the clinic
reached 341, of which 1877 of them
were for yenereal disease.
A total Of 9s2 visits in the cutting
Of weeds we're made during the month.
The city cut weeds from 617 lots and
the owners cut STA. A total of 765
nuisances were abated.
Two To One on Births.
One hundred thirty-three births, ex-
elusive of still births, were reported,
lib OF lneDn- WHITE, nln6 +cOlOFeQ ana
five Mexicans. One hundred twenty
two of these were resident and eleven
were nonresident. r..
Sixty-one deaths were recorded for
the month of August. eight of them
nonresident. The gross death rate for
the month was f.19 per 1000 popu-
latlon. Thirtysftve were males and
tWknty-six were females; forty eight
ofsthe white race, eight colored and
five Mexicans. The Second and the
sixth wards had the greatest death
rate, due to the location of hospitals.
Eight deaths resulted from acute in-
lection, one diphtheria, one tetanus,
five tuberculosis and one social dis
ease. 1E
Cancers Toll SIR
Cancer caused the death of four for
the month. making the total number
of deaths from that disease for the
first eight months OF this year, forty
one. Apoplexy caused ten, and dis
eases of the circulator system caused
eleven. Intestinal diseases caused
eighteen deaths, ten of them due to
diorrhea or enteritis, six of them UNI
der two years of age. Three deaths
were due from external causes two
homicides and one auto accident.
The death list for August was APP
proXimateiy the same as other months
of the year. The number of deaths
usually runs somewhere between fifty
and sixty, Doctor Brown explained
The number of deaths for August
1891, was fifty-nine. ~