Salt Lake Telegram | 1909-01-08 | Page 20 | New York Vital Statistics

NEW YORK VITAL STATISTICS 1 The increased birth hirth rate rale over the death lentil rate rale in New York city last lust year gave to the city 5 7 j new wit he born citizens The births were S. S S for each 1000 people people the deaths death 16 the lowest on record The Times rimes th thinks the great philanthropic agencies working and through the city government go have improved the sanitary conditions and in in spite of or the fewer marriages due to the hard times the result favors th the tho growth of the next generation and still London has a little lower de death th rate rate peo peo- people people pie to every 1000 and the Times thinks think that not all is being done one that should be bc because New York city being heing the greatest cit city in the world word it is inhabited eminently pre b by the young oung and middle aged people and therefore h ha a less ratio for diseases to attack The Times thinks the overcrowding overcrowding-of of the tenc- tenc ment houses is one great cause of increased mortality which is doubtless true but we have an idea that last year the death heath rate was due to to toa a cause which few people suspect and arid that is to the panic pani which reduced re re- re- re expenses in the aristocratic houses to a great extent Our Oar idea is that quite as many man people die from overeating as and it is a manifest fact that for four or le fi years prior t to th the coming of the panic the upper of New Now York was living at ata ata a pace that kills Late suppers suppers rich food and dissipation dissipation dissipation pation of near nearly I every kind have their effects while the panic came to them as does the order of a ph physician si cian ciari who is called to see a person who has been eating eat- eat ti ing ipg and drinking too much and who gives t the e in- in Junction that that business must stop that the patient pa pa- tient must live on simple food and l keep decent hours New Yorks York's upper ten was hit hard lard by bJ the panic but all the samo sarno it saved many a life or at nt least prolonged prolonged prolonged pro pro- longed man many a life for before it came carao New York had become the very fastest spot in all this country the theone one place in which men and women omen by bJ the tho thousand had seemed to give up all personal self-control self and whose passions and appetites had full sway