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Show G::cral Health of New Tort City fertile Year Has Been Remarkably Gccij NEW YORK, Dec. 14. Statistics prepared pre-pared by the Health department show that the general health of this city dur- lr.g the last eleven months has been remarkably re-markably rood and that the low per-ctnfage per-ctnfage of deaths during- the last few years has been sustained. , The actual figures of last year. 18.18 ' 9 deaths per thousand population, will be somewhat exceeded, however; owing to loss of life la the Blocum disaster, the extraordinary prevalence of measles duiing the spring- and the Increase In the number of acute respiratory diseases, dis-eases, of which pneumonia Is the most serious. The total number of deaths lest year was 62,034. During- the eleven months of their year to December 1, 869u mora death were recorded. It Is pointed out that 25 per cent of the death rate is among: Infants, and that New York's rate Is kept higher than It otherwise would be In consequence conse-quence of the large number of mortally 111 patients comlnr here to be treated In the hospitals and by specialists. - |