with the supposed cause of death, by the parent; or if none, nearest of kin-not a minor; or if none, by the resident householder where the death shall occur, under penalty, as provided in the preceding section of this act. SEC. 5. The probate judges of the several counties in the State shall be required to keep separate books for the registration of the names and the post-office address of all physicians, coroners, and accoucheurs, for births, marriages, and deaths; said books shall always be open for inspection, without fee, and said probate judges shall be required to render a full and complete report on the first day of every month of all births, marriages, and deaths to the secretary of the State board of health, that may have been recorded by him within the previous month. SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the State board of health to prepare and provide such blank forms for the record of all births, marriages, and deaths they may deem proper; the said forms to be provided by the probate judges of the several counties, whose duty it shall be to furnish them to such persons as are herein required to make reports. SEC. 7. Any person practicing medicine in any of its departments, shall possess the qualifications required by this act, viz: If a graduate in medicine, he shall present a diploma to the State board of health for verification as to its genuineness. If the diploma is found to be genuine and issued by a reputable medical college, and recognized as such an institution by the State board of health, and if the person named therein be the person claiming and presenting the same, the State board of health shall issue its certificate to that effect, signed by all the members thereof; and such diploma and certificate shall be conclusive as to the right of the lawful holders of the same to practice medicine in the State of Ohio. If not a graduate of such medical college as above designated, every person practicing medicine in this State shall present himself before the State board of health and submit himself to such examinations as the said board shall require; and if the examination be satisfactory to the said board, it shall issue its certificate in accordance with the facts, and the lawful holder of such certificate shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges herein mentioned, except that physicians who have been engaged in the continuous practice of medicine for more than twenty years at the date of the passage of this act shall, in lieu of a diploma or examination by the members of the State board of health, present to the said board an affidavit as to the number of years they have been engaged in the practice of medicine, and the said board shall issue its certificate to such physicians without requiring an examination. The State board of health shall from time to time hold its meetings in different sections of the State in order to accommodate applicants for certificates. All examinations for certificates shall be made directly by the State board of health. SEC. 8. Every person holding a certificate from the State board of health shall have it recorded in a book kept for that purpose by the probate judges in the several counties in the State, and the record indorsed thereon. Any person removing to another county to practice shall procure an indorsement to that effect on the certificate from the probate judge of the county, and shall record the certificate in like manner in the county to which he removes. The fee of the probate judge for recording a certificate issued by the State board of health, to enable the holder to practice medicine, shall be one dollar. SEC. 9. Each candidate, on presenting himself for examination, shall pay a fee of twenty-five dollars, which shall be returned to him if a certificate be refused. In case an applicant for a certificate fails to pass a satisfactory examination, the person may, in three months thereafter, appear again before the board for a second examination, which second examination shall be final. If said second examination shall be satisfactory to the board, a certificate shall be given, for which the candidate shall pay twenty-five dollars. SEC. 10. Examination may be, in whole or in part, in writing, and shall be of an elementary and practical character, and shall embrace the general subjects of anatomy, physiology, chemistry, materia medica, pathology, pathological anatomy, surgery, and obstetrics, but sufficiently strict to test the qualifications of the candidate as a practitioner of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics. SEC. 11. The State board of health may refuse certificates to individuals guilty of unprofessional or dishonorable conduct, and they may revoke certificates for like causes. SEC. 12. Any person shall be regarded as practicing medicine, within the meaning of this act, who shall profess publicly to be a physician, and to prescribe for the sick, or who shall append to his name the letters "M. D." This act shall also apply to apothecaries and pharmacists, and other persons who prescribe for the sick. This act shall not apply to commissioned officers of the United States Army and Navy and Marine Hospital services. SEC. 13. Any itinerant vender of any drug, nostrum, ointment, or appliance of any kind intended for the treatment of disease or injury, or who shall, by writing or printing, or any other method, publicly profess to cure or treat diseases, injuries, or deformities by any drug, nostrum, manipulation, or other expedient, shall pay to the State treasurer a special tax of $100 every month. SEC. 14. Any person practicing medicine, surgery, or obstetrics in this State without complying with provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty days nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each and every offense; and any person filing or attempting to file as his own the diploma or certificate of another, or a forged affidavit of identification, shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be subject to such fine and imprisonment as are made and provided by the statutes of this State for the crime of forgery. SEC. 15. The first meeting of the State board of health shall be convened by the governor within fifteen days after he shall have appointed its members, when they shall proceed to elect one of their number president of the board. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum. The board shall also adopt rules and by-laws for their government, subject to the provisions of this act. The board shall also elect one of their number secretary, and who shall also be the State health officer, and who shall be the executive officer of the board, and perform all the duties prescribed by the board and by this act. He shall receive a salary which shall be fixed by the board; he shall also receive his traveling and other expenses incurred in the performance of his official duties. SEC. 16. The other members of the board shall receive no compensation for their services; but their traveling and other expenses, while employed on business of the board, shall be paid. The president and secretary shall certify all bills ordered paid by the board. Such bills shall be presented to the auditor of State, who shall draw his warrant on the treasurer for the amount. SEC. 17. All sums of money received by the State board of health in payment for certificates for authority to practice medicine, and all fines and special taxes, collected through and by reason of this act, shall be paid into the State treasury. SEC. 18. It shall be the duty of the State board of health to make an annual report through their president and secretary, or otherwise, in writing, to the governor of the State, on or before the first of January of each year; and such report shall include so much of the proceedings of the State board of health, and such information concerning vital statistics, and such knowledge respecting disease, and such instruction on the subject of hygiene and sanitary laws, and such regulations as govern the legitimate practice of medicine, as may be thought useful by the board of health for disseminating among the people, and with such suggestions as to legislative action as they may deem necessary. SEC. 19. The sum of eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the salary of the secretary, and to meet all the contingent expenses of the office of the board, all costs for printing, which, together with traveling and other expenditures of the members of the board in the performance of their duties, shall not exceed the sum appropriated. SEC. 20. The secretary of state shall provide rooms suitable for meetings of the State board of health, and office room for the State health officer. SEC. 21. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage; and all laws that are in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. QUARANTINE REGULATIONS OF WILMINGTON, N. C. PORT OF WILMINGTON, North Carolina, March 18, 1880. The following quarantine regulations will be enforced for the port of Wilmington, and the penalty of $200 for every violation thereof strictly enforced. Pilots violating the same are liable to a loss of their branch. To entitle a vessel to free pratique in the port of Wilmington, from whatever port she may come, she must show 1st. A clean bill of health in accordance with the recommendations of the National Board of Health. that no case of infectious disease has occurred on board at the port 2d. She must show to the satisfaction of the Quarantine Board of departure, or during the passage. discharged at the quarantine station, and perform any other require3d. She must be thoroughly cleansed and disinfected, and ballast ments that may be designated by the quarantine physician. 4th. After performing all these requirements, she may receive a permit in writing from the quarantine physician, which permit must be indorsed by the superintendent of health of New Hanover County before she will be allowed to come to the city. 5th. Vessels subject to the above regulations will be designated by notice from time to time to their pilots and others interested in com merce. end on the 1st of November, except that when sickness shall occur 6th. The quarantine season will commence on the 1st of May and on board vessels at other seasons, such vessels shall also come under the above rules. W. G. CURTIS, M. D., Quarantine Physician. SANITARY REGULATIONS FOR THE PORT OF NEW YORK. The following bill was introduced by Mr. Varnum, read twice, and referred to the Committee on Commerce and Navigation; reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee of the Whole: STATE OF NEW YORK, No. 392.-IN ASSEMBLY, MARCH 5, 1880. AN ACT in relation to the health officer for the port of New York. The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Every health officer of the port of New York hereafter appointed shall receive out of the fees collected by him a salary of ten thousand dollars per annum, which amount he is hereby authorized to retain, in equal monthly installments, out of the fees now allowed him by law. SEC. 2. No health officer for the port of New York hereafter appointed shall be permitted to receive and apply to his own use any fees or other emoluments collected or received by him, by virtue of his office, further than his actual and necessary expenses or his salary as fixed by this act. He shall render monthly returns to the comptroller of the State under oath, showing the total amount received by him for such fees, and the actual amount of his necessary expenses and disbursements, including his own salary for the month, giving a detailed and itemized account of all such expenses and disbursements, which account shall be audited by the comptroller. The balance of receipts over expenses shall, within ten days thereafter, be paid by such health officer into the State treasury, and shall be credited to the general fund. SEC. 3. Any health officer failing to comply with any of the provisions of the second section of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit or repeal the authority of the health officer to demand and collect in his official capacity the fees hitherto allowed him by law. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect immediately. SANITARY LEGISLATION IN NEW YORK. ABSTRACTS FROM CONSULAR REPORTS. KINGSTON, JAMAICA.-United States Consul George E. Hoskinson reports for the month of February 143 deaths in a population of 35,000, giving an annual death-rate of 49.0; the births for the same time were 110, or at the rate of 37.7 per thousand annually. The only causes of death noted are, malarial fevers 9, typhoid fever 1, and "other contagious diseases" 9. Of the deaths, 14 were under 1 year, 31 under 5 years, 11 about 65 years of age, 6 about 75, 2 about 86, and 3 about 95 years. Of the 110 births, 72 were illigetimate. General sanitary condition of the town described as very bad." 66 MATAMOROS, MEXICO.-United States Consul W. P. Sutton, in his report for the week ending February 28, remarks that small-pox prevails at Rio Grande City, Tex., and at other points up the river, on both sides. It is considered probable that the disease will reach Matamoros and Brownsville, two deaths having occurred in the last month from small-pox in the former city. SANTANDER, SPAIN.-The population of this province is estimated at 235,300, and the report of mortality for the month of December, 1879, gives a total of 512 deaths; the annual rate was 26.1 per 1,000 of population. Of the deaths recorded, 149 were under 1 year, 43 from 1 to 5 years, 15 from 5 to 10, 32 from 10 to 20, 55 from 20 to 40, 53 from 40 to 60, and 165 over 60 years of age. Among the causes noted are, consumption, 15; brain diseases, 25; cholera infantum, 15; diarrhoea, 20; dysentery, 5; typhus fever, 4; small-pox, 4; measles, 5; scarlet fever, 2, and malarial fevers, 6. REPORTS OF CORRESPONDENTS OF THE NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH. BURLINGTON, VT., March 23.-Dr. George M. Ockford reports that several cases of small-pox had occurred in the village of Underhill, about 16 miles east of Burlington. The disease was imported from Worcester, Mass., and so far is confined to the house in which it first appeared. CHATTANOOGA, TENN., March 22.-Dr. W. T. Hope writes that two sporadic cases of scarlet fever have occurred in the past month, but the disease has not spread. The town has hitherto been drained only by open ditches, but work is to be at once begun upon the construction of an ample system of brick-lined sewers. On the recomThe following bill was introduced by Mr. Astor, read mendation of the Board of Health, the city council has detailed two twice, and referred to the Committee on Public Health; competent men from the police force to act as sanitary inspectors. It is their duty to make house-to-house inspections, and report all reported favorably from said committee (Mr. Mutha dis-nuisances, which are required to be abated within five days after notice. senting) and committed to the Committee of the Whole: The city has been very healthy during the winter. STATE OF NEW YORK, No. 237.-IN SENATE, JANUARY 16, 1880. AN ACT to provide for the abatement of nuisances by boards of health of incorporated cities. The people of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Whenever the board of health of any incorporated city in this State shall find, or be of opinion, and shall so declare, that from or by any reason of any pursuit, matter, or manufactory, situate without the limits of such city, or by reason of the nature or condition of sewerage, drainage, or ventilation of the same, or connected therewith, there is or will be injury, detriment, or danger to the life or health of inhabitants of such city, or there is or will be pollution of the air or water supply of such city, or a nuisance, injuriously affecting the same, or the inhabitants thereof, it shall be the duty of such board of health to make written application or notice to the board of health of such adjoining locality to take cognizance of, and to abate the same within thirty days after the service of such application or notice, and in the event of the neglect or refusal of such board so notified to take such action as required, within the time aforesaid, the board of health so complaining may make application to a justice of the supreme court of the judicial district, or to the county court of the county wherein such pursuit, matter, or manufactory is situated or is carried on, for relief in the premises. SEC. 2. Upon such application the court or officer to whom the same is made, upon satisfactory proof of the substantial truth of the matter complained of, may order the persons or bodies corporate owning or carrying on such matters, or responsible therefor, or in charge or occupation of the buildings or premises used in such business, matter, or pursuit, to show cause before such court or officer, at a specified time and place, why the relief applied for should not be granted, and upon the return of such order to show cause, or the hearing thereupon, such court or officer may order the summary abatement of the matters complained of, or grant such order or future relief as shall appear to be just in the premises. The order to show cause shall be served personally upon the persons or corporations against whom the same or in such other manner as shall be designated in said order by the officer granting the same. SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately. ERIE, PA.-Dr. E. W. Germer, health officer, states, under date of March 7, that for six years he has caused to be published weekly, in English and German papers, the name, age, nationality, and cause of death of every person dying in the city, so far as known to the authorities. This method is adopted in Germany, and Dr. Germer forwards a copy of the form used in Vienna. NOTICE. In filling the reports on the postal cards for cities and hospitals, the figures are frequently so placed between the lines as to leave the disease intended entirely uncertain, except in cases where the judgment of the compiler may enable him to determine which is meant. This may be avoided by a stroke of the pen after the disease to be recorded. The total numbers should be placed in their proper columns, and no figures placed immediately after the word total will be noted in the tables. Those who report still-births will please note them separately, as they are not included in the tables of mortality in the BULLETIN. NOTICE. All official communications to the National Board of Health should be addressed to the Secretary of the Board, Dr. T. J. Turner, U. S. N. Correspondents and others whose writing may be for publication are reminded that much inconvenience is caused by writing on both sides of the paper. NOTICE. The populations of cities of the United States adopted in the tables of the BULLETIN are those furnished by the city authorities to the National Board of Health. They differ in some cases from the figures given in mortuary reports. NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH rooms, 1410 G st., N. W. States and cities. REPORT OF MORTALITY IN CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 20, 1880. REPORT OF MORTALITY IN CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 20, 1880—Continued. CITIES IN WHICH BURIAL PERMITS ARE REQUIRED. *Boston has 370,000 white, 5,000 colored; deaths, 151 white, 5 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 21.3, colored 52.2. Lawrence, Mass., has 39,800 white, 200 colored; deaths, 18 white. Rate in table. Providence has 98,200 white, 3,800 colored; deaths, 33 white, 1 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 17.5, colored 13.7. Sing Sing has 7,250 white, 250 colored; deaths, 7 white, 1 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 50.4, colored 208.7. Reading has 40,000 white, 350 colored; deaths, 25 white. Rate in table. Wilmington, Del., has 39,000 white, 5,000 colored; deaths, 20 white, 5 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 26.7, colored 52.2. Baltimore has 343,715 white, 56,285 colored; deaths, 98 white, 41 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 14.7, colored 38.0. District of Columbia has 114,000 white, 56,000 colored; deaths, 33 white, 55 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 15.1, colored 51.5. Norfolk has 15,500 white, 9,500 colored; deaths, 6 white, 7 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 20.2, colored 38.4. Richmond has 46,000 white, 34,000 colored; deaths, 15 white, 12 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 17.0, colored 18.4. Wilmington, N. C., has 6,714 white, 10,286 colored; deaths, 2 white, 1 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 15.5, colored 5.1. Charleston has 25,000 white, 32,000 colored; deaths, 7 white, 12 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 14.6, colored 19.6. Savannah has 17,493 white, 15, 163 colored; deaths, 3 white, 10 colored. Rate per 1,000, white, 8.9, colored 34.4. Augusta has 16,176 white, 10,824 colored; deaths, 4 white, 6 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 12.9, colored 28.9. Atlanta has 25,373 white, 16,175 colored; deaths, 5 white, 8 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 10.3, colored 25.8. Jacksonville has 6,000 white, 4,000 colored; deaths, 1 white, 2 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 8.7, colored 26.0. Mobile has 28,000 white, 12,000 colored; deaths, 3 white, 3 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 5.6, colored 13.0. New Orleans has 155,000 white, 55,000 colored; deaths, 54 white, 31 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 18.2, colored 29.4. Shreve port has 4,500 white, 5,000 colored; deaths, 2 colored, Rate in table. Memphis has 16,705 white, 13,954 colored; deaths, 4 white, 6 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 12.5, colored 22.4. Nashville has 26,000 white, 11,000 colored; deaths, 6 white, 10 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 12.0, colored 47.4. Chattanooga has 7,860 white, 5,020 colored; deaths, 3 white, 1 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 19.9, colored 10.4. Clarksville has 3,000 white, 3,000 colored; deaths, 1 white, 8 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 17.4, colored 139.1. Louisville has 153,125 white, 21,875 colored; deaths, 45 white, 14 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 15,3, colored 33.4. Wheeling has 28,600 white, 900 colored; deaths, 12 white, 1 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 21.9, colored 57.9. Burlington, Iowa, has 25,400 white, 600 colored; deaths, 7 white, 1 colored. Rate per 1,000, white 14.4, colored 86.9. Total white population, 1,668,411; deaths, 563; annual rate per 1,000, 17.6. Total colored population, 387,182; deaths, 243; annual rate per 1,000, 32.7. The following reports, for the week ending March 20, are from places requiring burial permits, and having less than 5,000 population: Brunswick, Ga., 3,000; deaths, 2; under 5 years, 1. Edgartown, Mass., 1,400; no deaths. Morgan City, La., 2,500; no deaths. Murfreesboro, Tenn., 4,000; one death. Saint Augustine, Fla., 2,500; deaths, 2; under 5 years, 1; pneumonia 1. Shelbyville, Tenn., 2,000; deaths, 2; under 5 years, 1; consumption 1, malarial fever 1. Total population, 15,400; deaths under 5 years, 3; total deaths, 7; annual death-rate per thousand, 23.7. The following reports, for the week ending March 20, are from places in which burial permits are not required: Alexandria, Va., 13,000; deaths, 5; under 5 years, 4; lung diseases 2. Allegheny, Pa., 75,000; deaths, 12; under 5 years, 6; consumption 1, diphtheria 1, enteric fever 1, pneumonia 1. Bath, Me., 10,000; no deaths. Battle Creek, Mich., 7,500; one death. Benton County, Miss., 11,000; deaths, 2; under 5 years, 1; pneumonia 1, cholera infantum, 1. Boulder, Colo., 3,500; one death. Brattleboro', Vt., 6,500; deaths, 3; under 5 years, 1; pneumonia 1. Calais, Me., 7,000; croup 1. Cambridge, N. Y., 1850; one death. Carrollton, Miss., 600; no deaths. Cedar Keys, Fla., 1,500; no deaths. Chatham, Conn., 3,000; pleuritis 1. Chico, Cal., 5,000; puerperal 1. Chillicothe, Mo., 4,750; puerperal 1. Circleville, Ohio, 6,400; deaths, 3; under 5 years, 1; consumption 1, pneumonia 1, puerperal 1. Clinton, Mich., 1,200; no deaths. Columbus, Ga., 10,000; one death. Corinth, Miss., 2,300; one death. Cumberland, Md., 12,000; consumption 1. Dallas, Tex., 20,000; consumption 1. Danbury, Conn., 9,350; deaths, 5; under 5 years, 2; lung diseases 3. Decatur, Miss., 1,000; no deaths. East Haven, Conn., 1,200; consumption 1. Fayette, Miss., 300; no deaths. Flint, Mich., 10,000; deaths, 3; consumption 1, diphtheria I. Galesburg, Ill., no deaths; no population given. Geneva, N. Y., 6,000; deaths, 3; under 5 years, 1; consumption 2, diphtheria 1. Helena, Mont., 3,500; diphtheria 1. Huntingdon, Tenu., 850; no deaths. Iuka, Miss., 1,000; no deaths. Jefferson Tex., 3,000; deaths, 3; under 5 years, 1; consumption 1, enteric fever 1, pneumonia 1. Jeffersonville, Ind., 11,000; no deaths. Kenosha, Wis., 5,000; deaths, 4; under 5 years, 1; diphtheria 2. Lansingburg, N. Y., 7,150; deaths, 4; under 5 years, 2; pneumonia 1, whooping-cough 1. Leb auon, Pa., 9,000; enteric fever 1. Little Falls, N. Y., 5,900; deaths, 5; consumption 2, lung diseases 2. Louisiana, Mo., 5,200; one death. Lynchburg, Va., 21,000; deaths, 11; under 5 years, 3; consumption 3, diphtheria 1, pneumonia 1. Madison, Ind., 12,000; deaths, 4; consumption 1, pneumonia 1. Marquette, Mich., 4,000; no deaths. Martinsburg, W. Va., 5,500; deaths, 2; under 5 years, 1; consumption 1, measles 1. Massillon, Ohio, 8,000; deaths, 6; under 5 years, 3; consumption 1, puerperal 1. Meridian, Miss., 5,500; malarial fevers 2. Milledgeville, Ga., 4,000; deaths, 3; under 5 years, 1; pneumonia 1. Monmouth, Ill., 6,000; deaths, 3; enteric fever 1. Mount Pleasant, Iowa, 5,000; deaths, 2. Muscatine, Iowa, 7,500; deaths. deaths, 2; pneumonia 1. Natchez, Miss., 10,000; deaths, 2; consumpMiss., 3,000; no deaths. Oshkosh, Wis., 18,000; deaths, 3; consump tion, 1, pneumonia 1. Newcastle, Pa., 10,000; deaths, 3. Okolona, tion 1, lung diseases 2. Painesville, Ohio, 5,000; deaths, 3. Phoenixville, Pa., 6,000; deaths, 4; under 5 years, 1; diarrhoea 1, pneumonia 3. Pontotoc, Miss., 600; one death. Port Jervis, N. Y., 10,000; no deaths. Portsmouth, Va., 14,000; deaths, 7; under 5 years, 3; croup 1. Pulaski, Tenn., 2,100; consumption 1. Ripley, Miss., 1,000; no land, Me., 7,000; deaths, 2; consumption 1, puerperal 1. SpringRock Island, Ill.; deaths, 6; no population given. Rockfield, Ohio, 23,000; deaths, 4; consumption 3. Starkville, Miss., 1,163; no deaths. Steubenville, Ohio, 13,500; deaths, 3, under 5 years. Summit, Miss., 2,250; no deaths. Tampa, Fla., 1,200; no deaths. Titusville, Pa., 9,000; deaths, 2; consumption 1, pneumo3,500; one death. Waterbury, Conn., 16,000; deaths 8; under 5 nia 1. Tuscaloosa, Ala., 4,000; consumption 1. Victoria, Tex., years, 3; consumption 1, croup 1, diarrhoea 1, scarlet fever 1, lung diseases 2. Waxahachie, Tex., 2,000; pneumonia 1. Winchester, Va., 5,500; deaths, 3; under 5 years, 1; consumption 1, croup 1. Winona, Minn., 10,000; deaths, 2; under 5 years, 1. Youngstown, Ohio, 17,000; deaths 8; under 5 years, 6; lung diseases 4, whoopingcough 2. Total population, 554,863; deaths under 5 years, 46; total deaths, 167; annual death-rate per thousand, 15.7. WEEKLY SUMMARY OF MORTALITY. The reports for the week ending March 20 represent a total population of 8,496,572, being 113,630 more than last week. The number of deaths being 3,095, or 224 more than the previous week, the annual rate has risen from 17.9 to 19.0 per 1,000. Consumption and acute lung diseases have increased from 5.84 to 6.11, and the change is greater in lung diseases, as noted last week, when both had decreased. For this week the rate of mortality from consumption has risen from 3.10 to 3.21, increasing 3.5 per cent., while lung diseases have advanced from 2.74 to 2.90 per 1,000, being 6 per cent. higher than last week. The total of deaths from the six principal zymotic diseases is 358 this week against 351 last week, and the rate per 1,000 has only changed from 2.18 to 2.20. The following special changes are noted: Increased, diphtheria, from 0.66 to 0.74; scarlet fever, from 0.39 to 0.46. Decreased, measles, from 0.40 to 0.29; whooping-cough, from 0.29 to 0.24. Malarial and enteric fevers remain stationery at 0.17 and 0.28 per 1,000. Philadelphia and the District of Columbia report deaths from small-pox, and the disease is known to exist in other places, but it appears to be generally declining in extent and fatality. REPORTS FROM HOSPITALS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WEEK ENDING MARCH 20, 1880. Hartford Hospital General Hospital Saint Barnabas Hospital. Harrisburg Hospital.. Philadelphia Hospital Saint Luke's Hospital Saint Louis Hospital. Naval Hospital Epileptic and Paralytic Hospital.. Hartford, Conn 150 144 |