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The Death Rate--great Increase During The Past Year

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Day
30
Month
April
Year
1875
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Public Domain
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From faets colloctod 1 y medical men in uil parte of the wortel it appcars that a suddeu and heavy inórense of tbc death ra te among adults marked tho winter of 1H7-1-5. In the Southern Sta tea of this Union iuid in Northern Europe the same disclosures are made by the records of vital atatistics. Xhey all agree in the main parte of their reporta, and declare that uupreeedented changes from the normal state of the weather occiUTed diu-inf Lhe poet cold months. The ' ; weatiier was cotd and moist. That j bination prodnced pulmonary diseaae and pneumonia. At the same time it made the olass of ailments extremely diiïieult to ure. Diphthei-ia was also prevalent in an unusual degree. In aome sections it amounted to an epidemie, and acores of péople were oarried offby it in a short time. Dr. Sarris, Registrar of Vital Statistici? in New York, reporte that in that city the total percentage of deaths will be fiom 12 to 15 per cent. additional, and in special classes of diseases most fatal the ratio lias been doubled. In refereneë to diphtheria the réports from Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Liverpool, Dublin, Vienna and Hambiu-g show that the ravages have been widespreád and fatal. Paris has a lower pur cent. of deaths from this malady. This is accounted for by the excellent sanitary regnlations in force in the French capital, and the rigid inanner in vhich they are carried out by special officers appointed for that purpose. The : cians say tiiat persons in the constant habit of taking strong liquors are in great danger from , diphtheria. In these persons the muöous membrane of the I throat is weakoned to a fatal extent, and, j as a matter of course, cannot resist the doublé aasault of a cold atmosphere, and that heavily laden Wiftl moisture. In this section tho -weatller is unusually , ing upon people from the lst of Jamrary to the lst of April. One storm followed I anotlicr in t&pxd succession, and iu most places the transitiou was sa sudden as to produce conseqnences of a very unpleasant ií' not fatal character. No attention to ciothing could prevent the action of the damp, rasping air upon the tlu-oat I and luugs, and henee the increase in tliis j faniily of complaints. Among those who ■verc "compelled to livo in damp lionses and go half ciad the ratio of mortality was of necessity greater. Ths winter of 1835-6 was marked with liea mortality rates, bnt not so heavy as those of 187-i 5, which are now being presented to the ' world in the shape of regular-collected

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