New Britain herald., 1929-11-15
407 Automobile Victims Suicides and Homicides, Increase, Census figures Show - No Smallpox Deaths.

Washington D. C., Nov 15.-The department of commerce announces that the 1928 death rate for Con- nectnut was 1.076.t per 100000 population as compared with 1,024.3 in 1927.
 Increase in rates (per 10000 population) from those of the pre- ceding year were from the following principal causes: Diseases of the heart (219.1 to 22S.4), cancer G05.t to 107.5), diabetes mellitus (2o.1 to 22.o), and tuberculosis, all forms (65.6 to 66.9), Increases were shown also for pneumonia, all forms 76.3 to 37.9). influenza CAP to 1S.2). whoopng cough CA to 6.I, measles G.5 to 4.2), meningo- coccus meningitis CO.'S to 1.4), dis eases 70. the arteries, etc. G9.6 to 22.2), hernia, intestinal obstruction fS.5 to 10.3). and syphilis (90 to a.O. The death rate from suicide increased from 11.4 to 14o.
 The death rate from all accidental causes increased from 66.7 to T4.1. the individual types of accidents showing the greatest increases being automobile accidents (excluding col hsions with railroad trains and street cars GOO to PAD, railroad accidents (2.5 to 3 5, and accidental drowning (7.2 7.S).
 Significant among the decreases in rates from 1927 to 1928 were those from diarrhea and enteritis, under years G2.4 to S.o). con- genial malformations and and dis eases of early infancy (63.7 to 6O.3), meningitis on-epidemic) GA to ID. diphtheria {5.9 to 5.D, and typhoid and paratyphoid fever O.1 10 o.6). Ii is the first time in the history of the state that the rate from typhoid fever was less than 1 per 100000 population.
 Accidental burns (conf1agration' cXcepted) showed d decrease from A to 3.S.
 The estimated population in 1928 was 1.667,O0o and in 1927 was 1,636,0OO.
 Fh tc'hi oI t'DOo utdlHS were IP- ported during the year, the 1927 a aggi egate having been 16,757. Dis cases of he heart claimed the great est number, 3.SoS. while 1,792 sue cumbed to cancer and other malig- nant tumors. Tuberculosis took LIS victims in the state and cerebral hem orrhage and softening 1.501. A total of 1,465 died of pneumonia. 1897 of nephritis, and 1,oo6 of diseases of carly infancy.
 Influenza was responsible for BOA deaths, diphtheria for S5, whooping cough for 107, measles for 70, and scarlet fever for 20. Ten persons died of typhoid and paratyphoid fever. Malaria claimed only two victims. For the second year in succession, there were no deaths from smallpox in Connecticut
 1,236 Die in Accidents
 Accidents resulted in 1o36 deaths as compared with 1902 the year be- fore. Of this number. 407 were vic- tins of automobile accidents, ex- cluding collision with railroad trains and street cars. Railroad accidents caused 59 deaths 19 of which came from collisions with autos. Twenty five persons died in street car acci- dents, eight of them as a result of collisions with automobiles. Air plane, balloon, and motorcycle mis- haps brought death to 21 persons.
 Water claimed 132 drowning vic tims and 223 died after falls, while burns resulted fatally in 64 cases machinery accidents in 21, and ac- cidental shooting in IS. Excessive heat was responsible for ? deaths
 236 Suicides. 43 HOmlcidcS
 Both suicides and homicides in Connecticut increased during the year in number and in the ratio per 100000 population. Tn 1928 there were o36 suicides against 1S6