possibly be of some interest to you, I am taking the liberty of sending it.

Births: White, 92; colored, 24; white, 72; colored, 44; total, 116..

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Deaths: White, 35; colored, 8; male, 25; female, 18; total,

Contagious Diseases: Diphtheria, 28; scarlet fever, 16; measles, 6; chickenpox, 11; typhoid fever, 9; total, 70. White, 51; colored, 19; male, 32; female, 38.

Houses fumigated: school house and kindergarten each fumigated twice. Shanties inspected in April, August and November, and recommendations as to improvement in their sanitary conditions made to the Real Estate Department. Unsanitary conditions of closets and drains were reported to the Real Estate Department at various times, and the conditions were improved. During the spring and summer the greater part of the town has been supplied with covered garbage cans, and the number of flies during the summer was noticeably lessened. Oil applied to marshes and pools in the spring did not seem to be as effective as formerly, as mosquitoes were quite abundant during the summer, and in consequence much malaria prevailed during the fall.

This is for Sparrows Point alone, the population of which at the last police census is 5,743.

Very respectfully,

G. C. MCCORMICK, M. D.,
Health Officer, Sparrows Point.

TAKOMA PARK.

TAKOMA PARK, MD., February 11, 1913.

Dr. Frederick V. Beitler,

Registrar of Vital Statistics,

6 East Franklin Street,
Baltimore, Md.

Dear Sir: In reporting the vital statistics for the Town of Takoma Park for the year 1912, the attached statements indicate that there were twenty deaths in the town during the year, ten of these persons being transients, patients at the Washington Sanitarium. The remaining number constitute a death rate of 6.01 per thousand, or considerably less than half the average death rate throughout the country.

The total number of births was twenty-six. Of infectious diseases there were twenty-eight cases reported. Of this number, thirteen were cases of whooping cough, eleven of measles, two of scarlet fever and two of typhoid fever, the latter disease in both cases being contracted outside this jurisdiction. All cases requiring fumigation were promptly attended to at the required time. The number of cases of infectious diseases was larger than in former years; but these were uniformly of a light character, no fatalities occurring.

The following were the deaths, with the date, name, age, and cause of death:

January 3, Elizabeth Collins, 86, Arterio Sclerosis.
January 31, James Davis, 84, Cerebral Hemorrhage.
March 8, *Arabella E. Burns, 70, Bright's Disease.

April 22, Albert Thomas Riddle, 53, Cerebral Hemorrhage.
April 28, *Anna A. Haines, 61, Peritonitis.

June 30, *Ida J. Vance, 54, Mitral Regurgitation.
July 3, Thomas J. Parker, 52, Cerebral Hemorrhage.
July 5, George N. Beale, 82 Cerebral Hemorrhage.
July 19, James F. Phillips, 54, Cerebral Hemorrhage.
July 23, Robert Allen Stevens, 2, Dysentery.
July 25, *Laura Meigs Akerley, 79, Arterio Sclerosis.

August 3, *Mary Ford, 65, Arterio Schlerosis.

August 8, *Sophia L. Roberts, 47, Valvular Heart Disease.

August 10, *Helen V. Corson, 59, Intestinal Obstruction.

October 25, *Fannie Cohen, 74, Esophageal Stricture.

October 29, *Julia Squiers Barker, 82, Dysentery.

November 1, *Charles Frederick Larabee, 69, Chronic Endocarditis.
November 6, Helen M. Colburn, 68, Cerebral Hemorrhage.
November 28, Janet Macallister, 70, Valvular Heart Disease.
December 24, Harold E. Kinter, 1 day, Convulsions; Weak Heart.
*Transients (patients at the Washington, D. C., Sanitarium).
Total deaths, 20; of transients, 10; of residents, 10.

The following were the births, with date, name, sex and name of father:

January 23, Evelyn Lucille White, female, James M. White.
February 7, Winifred Mary Chase, female, William M. Chase.
February 17, Howard Thompson, male, Arthur A. Thompson.
February 18, Albert Edwyn Cole, male, Albert Cole.

March 29, Margaret Ella Brensinger, female, Howard D. Brensinger.
April 7, Wallace Vernon King, male, Harry L. King.
April 11, Elizabeth Gray Findlay, female, John Findlay.
June 18, Kenneth Beverly Fisher, male, Harold B. Fisher.
July 6, Helena Gertrude Herrell, female, Henry W. Herrell.
July 24, Edith Wayne, female. William Henry Wayne.
July 24, Horace Usher Ohm, male, Lewis A. Ohm.
August 4, Kenneth Smith, male, Harold G. Smith.
August 14, Elizabeth Barrett Coon, female, Datus E. Coon.
August 15, Henry Lewis Kuhn, male, Otto B. Kuhn.

September 5, Barbara Doris Kirstein, female, Wm. Kirstein.
September 15, Tate Van Eman Zytkoskee, male, Adrian E. Zytkoskee.
September 17, Asenath Alberta Heale, female, Albert A. Heale.
October 18, Joshua Hopkins Skinner, male, Joshua J. Skinner.

September 28, Huron Maybee Smith, male, Clarence Beaman Smith. October 13, Chas. Andrew Hite, male, John W. Hite.

October 28, Amos Burgess Blackburn, male, Geo. M. Blackburn (colored).

November 6, Dorothy Studt, female, Ray Nash Studt.

November 23, George Griffith, Rabbitt, male, George G. Rabbitt.
November 23, Nevins Morelle Harlan, male, Sanford M. Harlan.
December 22, Harold E. Kinter, male, W. M. Kinter.

December 22, Lewis Kinter, male, W. M. Kinter.

Total births during 1912, 26.

The following infectious diseases were reported, with date, diseases, name of person, and when and by whom fumigated: January 10, Typhoid Fever, Mrs. Harriet A. Jeffers, by Washington Sanitarium.

February 20, Typhoid Fever, A. J. Bennett, by Washington Sanita

rium.

(Both cases above were contracted outside this jurisdiction.)

May 6, Whooping Cough, Edward Payne.
May 6, Whooping Cough, David Findlay.

May 6, Whooping Cough, Helen Findlay.

May 6, German Measles, R. L. Hendrick.

May 16, German Measles, Alfred Ashley.

May 16, German Measles, Winnie Bowen, May 22.
May 16, German Measles, Willie Bowen, May 22.
May 16, German Measles, Cordelia Loftfield, May 28.
May 17, German Measles, Ethel M. Boyd, May 28.
May 17, Whooping Cough, Marie Rogers.
May 20, Whooping Cough, Oswald Longstreeth.
May 20, Whooping Cough, Brenton Schofield.
May 20, Whooping Cough, Marian Jack.
May 20, Whooping Cough, Paul Jack.
May 20, Whooping Cough, Naomi Jack.
May 20, Whooping Cough, Elisabeth Jack.
May 31, Measles, Pearl Roggenkamp.

May 31, German Measles, Mabel Bowen.

June 7, Measles, Eva L. Boyd.

July 2, Measles, Genevieve Town, July 11, at expense of N. Z. Town October 14, Scarlet Fever, Marian Jack, November 12.

October 15, Measles, Glanville Thompson, October 31.

November 20, Scarlet Fever, Pearl Roggenkamp, December 13.

December 2, Whooping Cough, Robert Ashley.
December 2, Whooping Cough, Alfred Ashley.
December 2, Whooping Cough, Donald Ashley.

Respectfully submitted,

H. E. ROGERS,

Local Registrar.

LIST OF TOWN HEALTH OFFICERS.

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.Dr. Timothy Griffith.......Allegany County.

.Through Co. Health Officer. Montgomery County.

Sanitary Surveys and Investigations.

TYPHOID FEVER AT CATONSVILLE, JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, 1912.

Dr. John S. Fulton,

February 13, 1912.

Secretary, State Department of Health,

Baltimore, Md.

Dear Dr. Fulton: I have the honor to submit herewith my report of an epidemic of typhoid fever at Catonsville, Baltimore County, occurring in January and February of the present year.

My investigations were made on February 1 and 12. There is a total of ten cases of sickness, details of which will be furnished later in this report.

PREVIOUS TYPHOID.

The first recorded epidemic of typhoid fever at Catonsville occurred in late summer and early autumn of the year 1898. There were twenty-four cases of sickness. From that day down to the present time a few sporadic cases have occurred. For purposes of comparison the Catonsville morbidity and mortality for the last four years, 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1911, will be arranged under an appropriate table. (See Table No. I).

By referring to this table it can be readily seen that no real epidemic of typhoid fever prevailed in Catonsville from 1898 down to the present time (January-February, 1912). The present epidemic is a very unfortunate occurrence, manifesting itself as it has done in the families of persons whose sanitary surroundings are of the best.