TABLE No. 19. Mortality from Principal Local Diseases from 1884 to 1892, inclusive. 192 248 99 120 134 507 78 436 69 44 61 63 140 2,191 2,492 201 2,801 2,743 283 241 78 161 130 572 180 673 73 47 68 55 182 308 209 78 188 140 571 217 890 72 68 94 48 222 3,105 242 244 79 149 128 545 138 604 60 53 59 61 173 2,544 Table No. 19 gives the mortality from the principal local diseases from 1884 to 1892, inclusive. The annual average for the eight years is 2,544, the total for 1892 being 3,105, as against 2,743 in 1891. An almost startling feature of this table is the large increase in the number of deaths from pneumonia, not only over the previous year, but for the entire period represented. There were 890 deaths from pneumonia, 571 from heart disease, 308 from apoplexy, 217 from bronchitis, 209 from paralysis, 188 from cephalitis, 222 from Bright's disease, 140 from brain diseases, 94 from peritonitis, 78 from convulsions, 72 from enteritis, 68 from gastritis, 48 from liver disease. TABLE No. 20. Mortality from Principal Developmental Diseases from 1884 to 1891, inclusive. DISEASES. YEARS. 1884. 1885. 1886. 1887. 1888. 1889. 1890. 1891. 73 18 14 90 23 1892. 82 21 11 81 19 Average. 189 87 61 17 16 77 26 ༄ ༆ ཎྜ རྦ ཕྱྀ ༞ རྩ རྔུ # ; Stillborn. 205 101 213 104 197 113 ཙྪ 35 * 65 11 69 19 12 16 50 30 468 20 76 27 20 81 20 15 95 28 * Classed with atrophy and debility. Table No. 20 shows the number of decedents from the principal developmental diseases for the nine years given. TABLE No. 21. Mortality from Twenty Prominent Causes from 1884 to 1892, inclusive. * Fever, bilious fever, malarial, intermittent, and typho-malarial fevers included. † Meningitis and cerebritis included. Classed with atrophy and debility. DIAGRAM No. 1.-SHOWING THE COMPARATIVE MORTALITY, BY ABSOLUTE NUMBER OF DECEDENTS FROM TWENTY PROMINENT CAUSES OF DEATH DURING YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1892. Pneumonia Consumption...... Apoplexy and paralysis.... 517 Old age....... Cholera infantum. Influenza Cancer.. Accident and negligence... 229 Bronchitis. Cephalitis Bright's disease.. Diphtheria... Brain disease. Typhoid fever...... Debility, infantile... Diarrhea and dysentery.. Innutrition.... Convulsions. Atrophy and debility CONSUMPTION (PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS). Table No. 21 gives a comparative view of the twenty most prominent causes of death for the past nine yearsfrom 1884 to 1892, inclusive,-diagram No. 1 shows the relative mortality from the same causes for the year 1892. Heretofore in both tables and diagrams, consumption has stood at the head in the magnitude of mortality, but this year it is outstripped by pneumonia. This is not because the former disease has been diminished, but because pneumonia has very largely increased, as will be seen by refer ence to other tables. The average number of deaths from pulmonary phthisis for the past nine years is 772, annually, while for the year 1892 it is 736, thirty-six below the average, but forty-one more than was recorded the previous year. It appears from a study of table No. 18, that the disease is being somewhat reduced, although there are too many factors entering into the statistics of this malady to make the conclusion a positive one in so short a period as nine years. The following table (No. 22) illustrates the comparative mortality of pulmonary phthisis for the period mentioned: |