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Title: Seventh Annual Report of the State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts. Supplement Containing Report and Papers on Public Health. 1885.
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Massachusetts. State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity.
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d exactly with the calendar year,being made up from weekly rather than from monthly returns. 3. The death-rate must differ slightly from that of thewhole population, since the present report comprises a greaterproportion of the city than of the rural population. The following sample of the postal card employed in thecollection of returns of deaths shows the sources and mode ofmaking up the returns at the office of the Health Depart-ment : — REPORT OF DEATHS in.Week ending Saturday NOON,_ jfor the_18S . 5 >H ^« CO «0 O^< Po •72O e3 ^S CO 03 <r2 Si < DISEASES. Small-pox, .... Cases of Small-pox, Measles, ....Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina,Cerebro-spinal Meningitis,Diphtheria and Croup,Whooping Cough, .Erysipelas,Typhoid Fever,Puerperal Fever, Fever, Fever, Diarrhoeal Diseases,Consumption or Phthisis,Acute Lung Diseases, Deaths under 5, Deaths from All Causes, not including Still-births, Still-births, Dhaths. remarks. vt/M^Tflf t-T-v/ TOTAL DEATHS.nORTALlTY. DEATHS UNDER 5
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AAxmun & niMi/Aun nEANs per. vjeek.TE/APERATURE,Q^AHRENHE)T) c^— BAR0nETER,ENGU5H RAmFALUinches. Hi rm E^Kl 1^ -T^ MORTALITY TEnPERATVRE.CCENTlGRADE.) BAROnETER,rRECH) RAlNFALUEMTinsTEn; Cliart slio^ving tlie total \\reek:ly naortality from popialatioia as reported; also tlie mortality of children under 5 years of age,the mean range of tenaperature for eaoli Aveek, the mean height of baronaeter and the total weekly rain fall at Boston. 1886.) WEEKLY MORTALITY REPORTS. 31 For the greater part of the year the calculation of death-rates was made fiom estimates of population, based upon theNational Cen5^us of 1880. The rate of increase since 1870,together with the increase in assessed polls, being employedas factors in the calculation. For the latter part of the year,the State Census of 1885 was employed. Of the 24,524 reported deaths, the percentages of mortal-ity in the different quarters of the year were as follows : — First Quarter.Per Cent. Second Quarter. 1 Third Quarter.Perseventhannualrep00mass_1

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