Milford chronicle., 1928-08-03
STATE HEALTH SHOW
IMPROVEMENT OVER
ten YEAR PERIOD
rcnntinred from frst paael

and cancer are the three ills which
show increased deaths among the
ten most prevalent causes of death
In heart disease, there were 1876
deaths per 100000 population in
1917. This number was increased
to 1872 in 1927 or an average per
100000 of 1862 for the ten years.
Cerebral apoplexy caused 11S
deaths per 100000 population in
1917. This number grew to lat last
year or an average of 1921 for the
ten years.
Cancer caused 76 deaths per 10O,-
900 in 1917. This number was in
creased to SO in 1927 or an average
of S4.2 for the ten years.
According to DR.. Arthur T. Davis,
executive secretary of the State
Board of Health, many of the deaths
due to organic heart trouble were
primarily caused by scarlet fever,
influenza, kidney trouble and other
ills with which the victim had been
attacked years previous and which
had weakened the heart to such an
extent that it could not withstand
the strain of living in later years.
But the encouraging fact, he point
ed out, is that such diseases as pneu-
monia, tuberculosis, congenital de-
bility and malfOrmations, children's
ills and influenza had been decreas-
ed due to preventive measures.
Pneumonia caused 215 deaths in
1917 and "a per 100000 in 1927, or
xroor. oxrorooo of II 9
Bright's disease and acute neph-
ritis caused 1876 deaths per 100000
in 1917 and 129 in 1927 or an aver
age rate per 100000 of 1888 for the
ten years.
The death rate from tuberculosis
was more than cut in half. In 1917
it caused ISL, deaths per 100000,
falling off to 80 in 1927, or an aver
age of 1888 for the ten years.
The mortality from violent deaths
despite the increasing amount of
motor traffic also showed a decrease.
There were 126 who paid the pen
atty per 100000 in 1917 as compared
with Sc in 1927, or an average rate
of SO for the ten years.
Congenital debility and malforma-
lions decreased from Ga per 10000
in 1917 to 81 in 1927, or an average
ten year rate of rs.
Intestinal troubles for children
under two years showed the great
est reduction, due largely to child
health clinics and the work of coun-
ty health units. This mortality was
cut more than five times in the ten
year period. 1t fell off from lis
baby deaths in 1917 to p in 1927,
or a ten-year average of GAL.
Even influenza with its tremend- |
GUS toll in 1918 has been cut during |
the ten years. In 1917 there were |
% deaths per 100000 as compared |
with IS. in 1927.
But in 1918 there were 555 deaths |
during the epidemic of flu per 100,- |
900. Even with this, the average |
per 100000 for the last ten years |
was but SS.9.
1t is the belief and earnest hope |
of the State Board of Health that in |
the years to come the mortality rate
on many ills may be still farther re-
duced because of the activities Of
the county health units and the
nurses attached thereto. Sources
of contagion and preventive methods
such as the toxin-antitoxin for diph-
liberia and the various toxins used
to protect against typhoid fever,
smallpox and other ills will grad
ually reduce the States mortality.
Such things as organic heart trou-
BILE, cancer and apoplexy will pro-
badly still continue to take their toll |
of earlier ills and compli-
cations and until some remedy is
discovered for cancer.