Annual report of the City Inspector of the City of New York for the year ending ... 1865City Inspector's Department, 1865 |
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100 and upward 66 Brain 66 Heart 66 Liver 66 Lungs 66 Puerperal 66 Stomach 66 Typhoid 66 Womb 6th 7th Abscess Abscess location Adults Ages Fem Ages Unknown Albuminuria Bright's Aneurism Annual Apoplexy April Asphyxia August Barometer Bilious Bleeding cause Bronchitis Burned or Scalded Casualties part's cause not given Children Cholera Infantum City Inspector COLORED Fem Consumption Croup Cyanosis DEATHS DURING NATIVITY December Delirium Tremens Diarrhoea Diphtheria Dropsy Drowned Dysentery Erysipelas Evaporation Females FOR'GN UNK'N Hooping-cough Inches Inflammation of Bowels January Jaundice July June LAST ELEVEN Marasmus Maximum Temperature Measles MONTH MONTHLY STATEMENTS mortality N. E. Cy number of deaths number of suicides Old Age Pleurisy Poison population Premature Birth Puerperal Fever REPORT OF DEATHS Scarlet Fever Scrofula Small-pox Spinal Disease TABLE Tetanus TOTAL BLEEDING TOTAL CANCERS TOTAL CASUALTIES Total number TOTALS OF REPORT Typhoid Fever Ulceration UNITED ALL CLASSES Weather week Women
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Page 217 - In the twenty years, 1G60-79, the mortality in Southwark and in the City within and without the walls was at the rate of 7 or 8 per cent. ; so the mortality within the bills may be set down at the rate of 7,000 annually in every 100,000 living, of which 3,400 were by zymotic diseases.
Page 219 - Consumption and diseases of the breathing organs were uncommonly fatal ; 1,079 then and 611 now are the figures of the mortality. Diseases of the digestive organs were fatal then and now in the proportion of 146 and 95. Stone and diseases of the urinary organs are now as fatal as they were then ; the deaths being 21 and 30. Children were rapidly cut down ; of convulsions and teething, 1,175 died then, 136, too many, now.
Page 218 - ... zymotic diseases. The diseases were not always distinguished accurately. But by putting them in groups, any fallacy from this source will be obviated, and the decrease of some of the worst forms of mortal disease will be placed beyond doubt. To render the comparison easy, the number living is taken to be the same in the two periods, 100,000 in 1660—79 and in 1859. The annual deaths by small-pox were 357 in the first period, 42 in the second period ; by measles 40 and 47 in the two periods....
Page 219 - Children were rapidly cut down ; of convulsions and teething, 1,175 died then, 136, too many, now. • Of the violent deaths, some are now more frequent, as the forces by which they are occasioned are greater ; of fractures and wounds 19 died then, 25 now ; of poison, more accessible, 2 now and then only 1 ; of burns, as fires are probably more common, and dresses more inflammable, now 13, then 3 ; drowning and suffocation were then twice as fatal (23 and 20) as they are (10 and 10) in the present...
Page 220 - ... Sextons, gravediggers, bearers, bellmen, and drivers of death-carts were in demand. The dead were buried indiscriminately ; some bodies lay in forsaken houses, others across the paths in the streets, no longer traversed by carts or coaches. At the end of the summer, grass was growing in Bishopsgate-street and Cornhill, where the people thronged no longer.
Page 219 - It is difficult to conceive this frightful destruction of human life; the imagination, the wailing notes of writers, the details of Defoe in a work which would have immortalized any writer, fail to bring all the horrors before our minds. The mortality was at the rate of seven per cent on an average during the twenty years.
Page 219 - ... in 1665 ; and this was equivalent to more than 600,000 deaths by plague in the present population of London. In the third week of September...
Page 219 - London were then destroyed by the terrible plague ; which, upon an average of the twenty years, carried off 1,132 lives. In 1665 nearly a third of the population perished by plague. It is difficult to conceive this frightful destruction of human life; the imagination, the wailing notes of writers, the details of Defoe in a work which would have immortalized any writer, fail to bring...
Page 218 - ... distinguished accurately. But by putting them in groups, any fallacy from this source will be obviated, and the decrease of some of the worst forms of mortal disease will be placed beyond doubt. To render the comparison easy, the number living is taken to be the same in the two periods, 100,000 in 1660-79 and in 1859. The annual deaths by small-pox were 357 in the first period, 42 in the second period ; by measles 40 and 47 in the two periods. Medical science was imperfect, and the science existing...
Page 219 - London had been at the same rate in the last year, instead of 61,617 about 194,200 deaths would have been registered. The plague was the more appalling as the mortality overwhelmed the people in particular years ; thus the burials from 15,356 in 1663, rose to 97,306, " whereof 68,596 were by plague," in 1665 ; and this was equivalent to more than 600,000 deaths by plague in the present population of London.