The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-30

, shown for diabetes, diseases of the heart, diseases of the coronary ar- teries, influenza and pneumonia combined, cerebral hemorrhage, and accidents.
 Fatal accidents, which tend to increase with the revival of busi- ness," the insurance company statis- ticians point out. have risen from 54.6 to 58.2 per 100000 since the corresponding nine months period of last year The increase, however, has been in fatalities other than from automobile accidents. Automobile deaths for the entire period of nine months are. still below the figure of last year, but this is only because of the low rates during the early months of 1886. In fact the favor- able record this year is no doubt due to the reduced automobile traffic last winter during period of heavy storms. The third quarter of 1886 has shown a turn for the worse, and the average rate for July, August, and September has been higher than for the corresponding period a year ago.
 Pneumonia
 'The death rate for influenza and pneumonia combined is slightly higher again this year than in re- cent years-90.5 per 100000 as com pared with 86.5 in 1885 and SIS in 1884. The mortality from influ- enza alone has remained at ap- proximately the same level as in 1885. Among white policyholders, however, there was decline in the influenza rate from 13.9 to 1885 to 12.7 in 1886.
 Cancer deaths have now declined to almost the level of the rate ot 1892. The year-to-date death rate, 91.6 per 100000 is 3.3 per cent be- low that of last year and 3.8 per cent below that of 1884, when the maximum rate for the nine months period was registered. Any improve ment in this condition is cause of much satisfaction, as the trend of mortality for his disease has been upward for many years. Tuberculosis
 "The death rate for tuberculosis all forms combined-has continued downward. The present rate of 54.8 per 100000 indicates that, with normal conditions during the re- mainer of the year, an annual rate of 53 deaths per 100000 will be at tained for the entire year. While the record so far is gratifying, we can not forget that tuberculosis IS re- sponsible for approximately 65,OOO deaths a year in the United States and is still one of the most import ant factors in the mortality picture. "
 In discussing the morality from diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles ana whooping cough, each of which 'es- tablished new low record for the nine months period with com bined death rate of 6.7 per 1OO,OOo representing decline of 38 per cent. from the figure for the correspond ing period of 1885, the statisticians say that the outstanding feature is the small number of deaths from measles so far this year" Among the Industrial policyholderS, there was only one third as many deaths from measles as in 1885, the rate II per 100000 establishing a new low record"
 Heart Diseases
 Discussing diseases of the heart, kidneys, arteries and cerebral hom- orrhage, the statisticians say that mortality from these causes as a group has been higher this year than formerly. "These diseases" they say, continue to be the leading causes of death of the country. Dis eases of the heart, which recorded decline of per cent in the death rate during 1885, have registered a slight increase this year, although the rate still remains below that of 1884. Chronic nephritis has maln- tained the downward trend in mor- tality observed in recent years"