The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-07-24
SICKNESS DECREASES FOR
FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR
Nearly $4,000 Fewer Cases of
Communicable Diseases Re-
ported

Nearly $4,000 fewer cases of sick
ness from communicable diseases were
reported to the State Department of
Health during the first six months of
1880 than during the corresponding
period of 1929. From the first of
! January to the end of June of the
current year, 19,778 cases of notifiable
diseases were reported in the State,
1887 in the counties and 11,441 in
Baltimore city, in comparison with Az
748 during the corresponding period of
1929. From the first of January to
the end of June of the current year,
19,778 cases of notifable diseases were
reported in the State, 1897 in the
counties and II, AL in Baltimore city,
in comparison with ATLAS during the
corresponding period of 1929 when
26,651 were reported from the coun-
ties and 21,097 from Baltimore City.
In announcing the figures for the
first six months of the current year,
DR.. R. H. Riley, Director of the State
Department Of Health, pointed out
that the excessive total for the first
half of 1929 was largely due to the
influenza epidemic during which 22,-
800 cases were reported, 1920 in the
counties, and $500 in Baltimore City.
Influenza reported during the first six
months of the current year, reached
a total of 812 casaes, 480 in the coun-
ties and 1872 in Baltimore City.
There were also reductions in the
pneumonias and in tuberculosis. Of
the former 228O cases, 1850 in the
counties and $50 in Baltimore City
were reported up to the end of June of
this year in comparison with 3645
during the first six months of last
year, 1886 in the counties and 1859
in Baltimore City. There were 1445
cases of tuberculosis, 684 in the coun-
ties and 761 in Baltimore City, in
comparison with 1749 during the first
half of last year, 982 in the counties
and 761 in Baltimore City.
Whooping cough, with 1043 cases,
was only one-third as prevalent this
year as it was, during the first six
months of 1929, when 1906 cases were
reported. Scarlet fever, on the other
hand, with 2g75 cases reported, show
ed an increase over the total for the
first half of 1929 during which 1923
cases were reported.
For the first time in the history of
the Department, psittacosis, parrot
fever, appears on the records, with a
total of 81 cases, II in the counties
and 16 in Baltimore City. There were
IL cases of endemic typhus fever, II in
the counties and one in Baltimore
City; in comparison with 8 in the
same period of 1929, 2 in the counties
and one in Baltimore City; cases of
tularemia, one in the counties and I
in Baltimore City, in comparison with
two during the same period of 1929,
both in Baltimore City; and IA cases
of undulant fever-also known as
Malta fever-10 in the counties and
q in Baltimore City, in comparison
with ten during the same period of
1929, of which occurred in the coun-
ties and in Baltimore City. Typhoid
fever, with 119 cases, showed slight
increase over 1929 when Ill cases
were reported. The smallpox record
had no entries against it for the first
six months of the current year.
The total number of deaths from
all causes recorded in the State dur
ing the six months ending in June,
was 11,089, of which 5,211 occurred
in the counties and 5,877 in Baltimore
City; in comparison with 11,945 dur
ing the corresponding period Of 1929,
when $685. occurred in the counties
and G 260 in Baltimore Citv