HEALTH REPORT OF PROVIDENCE FOR AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, 1904. During the month of August there were 312 deaths in Providence. This was twenty-seven less than for August 1903. The annual rate for the month was 19.07 per thousand which was the most favorable August report for a great many years. The September deaths numbered 256, which was forty-six less than for the corresponding month of 1903. The rate, 16.18 per thousand, was less than in any year since 1899. The principal cause of death in both August and September was diarrheal disease which gave rise to sixty-two deaths in August and forty in September. This was the smallest number in proportion to the population ever recorded in August and was very small for September. In the two months there were nineteen deaths from diphtheria, eight from typhoid fever and none from scarlet fever. There were reported during August thirty one cases of diphtheria, and in September forty-four cases. This increase was not very great but the disease appeared to be of a more severe type than usual, the case mortality for the two months being about double what it has been for a number of years. The disease also seemed to be widely distributed so that the outlook for the winter was not a promising one. There were reported nine cases of scarlet fever in August and twenty in September; a more favorable showing than for many months. There were only twenty-four cases of typhoid fever reported during the two months, twelve in each month. This is the smallest number of cases ever reported in these two months. There was one case of smallpox in September, which came from North Adams, Mass. C. V. CHAPIN, Superintendent of Health. INDEX. American Academy of Medicine Appendix, remarks on anatomy of, A. Hollingworth. Caesarian section, case. C. W. Higgins. Cancrum oris, case. W. D. Alsever. . Colica Mucosa and its treatment. J. L. Wheaton, Jr. H. G. Palmer. 155 II 7 73. 118, 157, 217 Fracture of cervical vertebra with hemorrhage into the cord. J H. Morgan Gunshot wound of abdomen, case. W. D. Alsever. 48 184 161 63 18 168 79 186 200 182 Harmfulness of over-eating. W. F. Morrison. 174 Hypertrophic cirrhosis of liver. G. S. Mathews. . 55 Improper treatment of some eye affections. G. W. Van Benschoten. 207 Injuries of the eyeball. V. L. Raia. . . 203 Nephrolithiasis, or stone in the kidney. J. W. Keefe. 50 Oysters and sewage in Narragansett Bay. C. A Fuller. 39 Pawtucket Medical Association. . 116 Providence Medical Association. 29, 68, 106, 149, 216 Purpura hemorrhagica, report of a case. D. Churchill. Some phases of medico-sociology. W. R. White. Toxemia of pregnancy. H. G. Partridge. Washington County Medical Society. Winter quarters at Pine Ridge Camp. W. H. Peters. |