TABLE 39. Mortality from Bright's Disease, Nephritis and Other Kidney Diseases, and from Dropsy, and Ratios to Total Mortality, Sixty Years, In Table 40 are presented the deaths from organic heart disease and acute endocarditis and the ratios by sexes for census years 1850-1910. The only point worthy of note is the increase from 5,430 in 1905 to 5,706 in 1910. Another feature worthy of observation is that as in 1909 the majority of these deaths were in females. TABLE 40. — Deaths from Heart Disease, and Ratios by Sexes, Census Years, 1850-1910. MEDICAL EXAMINERS' RETURNS. Allusion has been made in previous chapters to the increasing frequency of homicides, of suicides and of deaths by violence. In re the first two may be said that however impressive the facts a satisfactory explanation of this condition is not to be found in charging it off to an increased immigration of undesirables. The deaths from public travel and railroad vehicles are on the increase, but are of small moment compared to the rapidly increasing number of deaths from automobile accidents. This subject is so widely appreciated by the public at large, and so carefully considered by the officials in charge of such matters, that a marked improvement is to be expected in this regard in the near future. The editor feels that it would be idle to comment in detail here on facts which can be appreciated at a glance by reference to Table 1 (page 126). It is cause for congratulation that the percentage of cases in which the cause of death could not be definitely stated was 1.43 per cent., and the writer feels that the zeal and competency of this class of public servants is unquestioned. |