The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1922-02-11
STATISTICS GIVEN BY
NEVADA HEALTH BOARD

Birth reports in Nevada for the
year ending December 81, 1921, to-
tailed 1895, according to Statistical
Bulletin No. 4 for January OF this
year complied by DIR. s. L. Lee, State
Health 0ficer. The number of births
Of males reported was 722 and Of fe-
males 673. A striking coincidence is
the fact that the total number Of
births and the totals for both males
and females are exactly the same as
reported for the year 1917. The
whites of the State are credited with
1899 births. Monaghan IS, black 1,
red 5S and half-breed 2. The par
ents were native in sos births report
ed. and both foreign in SAT instances.
The reports of the physicians show
80 cases wherein the mother was nat
i've and the father foreign. The total
was SIS for native father and foreign
mother. The tables show 3S still
births and 13 pairs Of twins.
Deaths noted in the bulletin are
647 males and ais females, a total OF
965. only SIS less than the births to-
tai. The numbers of death according
to ages are: Under l year, 81; 1 to
5 years, 40; 5 to 10 years, 81; 10 to
20 years, So; 20 to 80 years, so; 80
to 40 years, los; 40 to SO years, 112;
so to so years, 123; so to 10 years,
1873; 20 to so, lis; 80 to 90 years.
10; 80 to 100 years. IT; 100 years
and over 9.
A few of the totals under Causes
of Death" are: tuberculosis, 76; can
GER, SO; diseases of the nervous sys-
tenn, IA; diseases Of the circulatory
system, 1877; diseases of the respira-
tory system, 101; diseases of the di-
gestive system, rs. General diseases
are reported as having caused death
as follows: Typhoid fever, 8; small
pox, 1; whooping-cough, 5; diphther-
ia, /; Group. 1; influenza. 1; dys-
entery, /; erysipelas, 1; puru1ent in
lection and septicemia, %.
Suicides by poison numbered 8 in
Nevada in 1921. by hanging 2. by
firearms II, by cutting or piercing
instruments 2. Nine accidental drown
ings we're reported. The numbers of
homicides noted in the bulletin are
16 by firearms, / by cutting or pierre
ing Instruments, and / by other
means.
Contagious, infectious and ON
municable diseases reported by the
local health officers during the year
were as follows: Scarlet fever SO,
smallpox 235, diphtheria and mem
branous Group 5. typhoid fever so,
whooping-cough 8, measles. So, tu-
berculosis IL, mumps IT, chicken
pox lis, pneumonia ia, bronchitis
II, cerebro-spinal meningitis 3, diar-
rheal diseases of children IA, cancer
60, p%uerperal septicemia z, Rock
mountain spotted (tick) fever /, in
iuenza 32. Deaths from the diseases
just noted were: Smallpox /, diph-
iberia and membranous Group 2, ty-
phoid fever 8. whooping-cough s,
pneumonia 80, tuberculosis IL, bron-
chitis 3. cerebrospinal meningitis 8.
diarrheal diseases of children Is, pu-
erperal septicemia z, influenza /.
The bulletin reports that 1920
marriage licenses were issued In Ne
vada in 1921, by counties as follows:
Churchill AZ, Clark, II, Douglas 26,
Elko 81, Esmeralda IS, Eureka 8,
Humboldt As, Lander 5, Lincoln II,
Lyon 2S, Minreai Z, Nye 3S, Ormsby
As, Pershing 80, Storey 8, Washoe
4S9 and White Pine 49.
Socrates earned an equivalent of
S7E a war No wondor ha uaa O