| Show A HEALTHFUL CITY 1 anz figures indicating the mortality of this city so far this year support the proposition that it is a remarkably healthful one the number of deaths in each of the eight months of the year now passed are as follows janus january ry 35 i february 47 march 62 april 36 W may kay 43 june 41 july 60 augusta gust total the death rate lor jor march was phenomenal f for or this I 1 locality 0 and was swelled by 21 fatal cases of pneumonia a disease never considered specially incident to nor particularly prevalent re valent in this city the number of deaths deaths in march and august were equal and the present indications are that the figure 62 will not be reached again this year it if an unusual cause swelled the death rate for marci the same may be said of august of the 62 deaths occurring last month 32 or more than halt hall were of children under five years of age and 15 or one fourth as nearly as may be were caused by cholera in bantum the population of this city is now estimated to be in excess 0 of I 1 selecting the highest monthly monta Y mortality and we have within a fraction too minute to be noticed two deaths per month per thousand or 24 per year cities having as high a mortality tv the year round as our high est tor for any month of the year are not spoken of as being specially sickly the number of deaths in this city during junec was 41 or one death to each inhabitants allowing the population to te be if we estimate the latter as high as then the death rate would oe be one to the latter rate is probably very close to the exact truth in the absence of an azcui accurate ate census of the city strict correctness in these statistics is unattainable prom from figures fur furnished dished by the sanitary era bra the toledo commercial shows that in 43 of the leading cities of the union whose aggregate population was there occurred during anne deaths or one death to of tue population thus the death rate of this city for june was more than twenty five per cent lower than of the forty three cities whose statistics were aggregated as above probably no fairer month than june could be chosen for making such a comparison one peculiarity of this city swells its death rate and yet carnot be urged as an essentially unhealthy feature this is a city of orchards and was laid out with the object of making it such orchards are the playgrounds of multitudes of children who thus kave have unrestrained access to f fruits unripe and uncooked and the consumption of these without doubt is a prolific cause of mortality among the little ones w which aich probably does not exist to any similar efte extent t anany in any eastern city which could be named this one cause of mortality among children in this city and the statistics of it would bacon sider ably modified the prevalence of cholera antum autum goes to support this view as that is preeminently pre eminently a disease c ed by improper feeding ini V stable figures prove that the aror propos u ot of little children to the mass of df the population is much heavier I 1 in this than in almost any of the larie large cities of the country and us as it iriti Is among children viat the heaviest mortality prevails a due allowance for their numbers here compared to elsewhere would materially add to the favorable showing ids his city is able to wake make respecting g the rate of mortality W anile bile the death rate proves our city a healthful one it might land and ought douht to be made more so by bv the abatement ot of such causes of disease as impure water made so by seepage from vaults etc decaying vegetable matter which accumulates in such abundance in the orchards gardens and yards of our roomy city and the unrestrained consumption by little children of un t lipe ipe and uncooked fruit |
