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Show PNEUMONIA. Pneumonia has become a scourge in New York City. The Herald of that city says more people dlo of it, than from any other disease; that in round numbers, between Thanksgiving and Easter, "every day sees an average of 550 people, every week 4,000 people go to bed with pneumonia." It gives tho percentage of deaths from the scourge by wards, and they average 14.4 per cent of tho total deaths. About 04,000 peoplo are struck down .by pneumonia every year in the great city, and the deaths exceed those by consumption. The percentage per-centage in New York proper is double that of Brooklyn, though Brooklyn is the damper place. Tho reason given for Brooklyn's partial exemption is the coming in of fresh sea air. The Italians are the worst sufferers, males are more subject to attack than females; the weak are attacked of- tonor than tho strong, but the more robust, those with big lungs, are more apt to succumb to tho disease. It has been worse since the great epl-clemic epl-clemic of influenza in 1889-90. ;.., |