Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-01-27
OCEAN CITY'S HEALTH CONDITION
AS SHOWN BY HEALTH OFFICER
(From ocean City Ledger.)

CFrom Ocean City Ledger.)
The report of Health officer T. Lee
Adams for the year 1921 shows the
health conditions of Ocean City to be
u%nexcelled. The report which is OF
interest to every resident and cottager,
follows:
We can congratulate ourselves that
with the greatest number of people
summering here, and with the largest
permanent population in our history
we have the fewest cases of contagious
diseases reported during the past year.
In all. AZ cases of contagious or COM
m%unicable diseases were reported,
three deaths resulting, two cases OF
pulmonary tuberculosis, one a resident
and one a visitor, and n death from
whooping cough, a child a few months
old.
The cases are as follows:
Scarlet fever, II; measles, IA;
humps, g.; typhoid fever, 3; whooping
cough, 3; pulmonary tuberculosis, 2;
diphtheria, l; malarial fever, 1;
chicken-pox, 1.
With the exception of whooping
cough, humps and, in some cases,
measles, all cases of contagious dis
eases are promptly reported. The
physicians report all cases coming un-
der their observation, but, in the early
summer, families come here with
children recovering from these So
called minor diseases, bringing medi-
cine prescribed by the family ply
stefan at their homes, and they
are allowed to mingle with other
children and spread these diseases.
1t is impossible to locate them until
the damage is done.
Vital Statistics
Marriages reported, SO; births re-
ported, "a; still-births, Z; deaths, 70.
Of the births, Sc were of white pa
rentage and Z of colored parents. The
parents Of Sc were native born; IL
foreign born.
Deaths
The death rate shows an increase
of As per cent over the previous year,
more than half being between the ages
of so and 95 years. Forty were resi-
dents of Ocean City, and 80 were visi-
tors or summer residents. OF the 40
residents, Z were less than 1 year; 10
were between 1 year and so years; %
were between 60 years and 95 years.
OF the 80 non-residents, 2 were less
than 1 year; Is were between 1 year
and go years; Is were more than go
years.
The causes of deaths are as follows:
Apoplexy, 8; arteriosclerosis, 8;
acute Indigestion, 1; bronchitis, 2;
bowel obstruction, 2; cancer, 4; cya-
hide poisoning (suicide), L.; drowning
(accidental), l.; gas asphyxiation lac
cident), 2; gastric ~enteritis, 2; gastric
l; heart disease, various forms,
IS; icterous neonotorum, 1; kidney
diseases, all forms, 8; pneumonia, 6;
peritonitis, 1; pertussis (whooping
cough, 1; premature birth, 2; senility,
L; pulmonary tuberculosis, 2.
The percentage of deaths for the
permanent population in 1920 a AZ
per cent, the percentage for 1921 is
81 per cent, an increase of 10 per cent
over the year 1920.
Our death rate for 1921 is 10 per
thousand, Is compared to 7.3 for 1920.
An examination of the causes of death
show that at least seven deaths had
no connection with sanitary condi-
lions. There were two suicides, three
accidental, one drowning, two gas
APPROPRIATIONS, and two premature
births. The large number who had
reached the usual limit of life, besides
a number whose age was just within
the60-year limit, shows us there is
nothing abnormal in the rate for this
year just past.
The demands by the State Board of
Health that the state laws be rigidly
enforced, particularly in regard to
public drinking cups, constant inspec-
ton of the food supplies, the common
towel and fly breeding areas, and the
keeping of a permanent record of all
inspections and notices served, have
more than doubled the duties of the
health officer. Taken in connection
with the supervision of contagious
cases, the various complaints of a
sanitary nature, which compel his per-
sonal attention, besides the require
ments of our local ordinances, which
he is supposed to enforce, the whole
makes this one of the big jobs.
MAIL RAGS MISSED