The principles of hygiene : a practical manual for students, physicians, and health officers / by D.H. Bergey.
- David Hendricks Bergey
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The principles of hygiene : a practical manual for students, physicians, and health officers / by D.H. Bergey. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![it again decreases. The following table, taken from the annual reports of the Bureau of Health of the city of Philadelphia, shows the percentage of deaths to total mortality during specified periods of life, for the years 1889 to 1894, inclusive: Years. 1889. 1890. 1891. 1892. X893. I B94. Per ct. Per ct. Per ct. Per ct. Per ct. Per ct. 0- I 5268 25.66 5287 24 33 5488 2349 5693 23.42 5710 24-13 5472 24-57 I- 2 1287 6.27 130s 6.00 1439 6.16 ]i6oi 6.59 1446 6.11 1363 S-96 2- S 1197 5.83 1320 6.07 1552 6.64 1904 7.83 1534 6.49 1596 7.02 5- 10 663 3-23 654 3.00 978 4.19 1083 4-45 8n 3-42 870 3-83 10- 15 307 1.49 322 1.48 359 1-54 362 1.49 353 1.49 330 I-4S 15- 20 613 2.99 587 2.71 623 2.67 601 2.47 584 2.47 546 2.40 20- 30 1Q27 9-38 2095 9.6s 2022 8.6s 2051 8.44 2079 8.78 1941 8.55 30- 40 1824 8.88 20l8 9.29 2047 8.76 12173 8.94 2119 8.96 1987 8.76 40- 50 1673 8.15 1854 8.53 1812 7-75 1863 7.67 2037 8.62 1918 8-45 50- 60 1561 7.60 1717 7.91 1855 7-94 1990 8.19 1990 8.42 1932 8.51 60- 70 1786 8.69 1953 8.98 2122 9.09 2070 8.52 2126 9.00 2029 8.90 70- 80 1491 7.26 1604 7.38 1975 8.4s 1806 7-43 1818 7.69 1766 7.78 80- 90 817 3-98 850 3-91 954 4.08 944 3.89 893 3-77 801 3-53 90-100 11,6 •56 158 •73 133 •56 159 •65 144 .61 123 •54 loo-i 10 6 .03 8 ■03 8 .03 5 .02 10 .04 6 .02 110-120 I The high infantile mortality is due, primarily, to the effects of fault}'' nutrition, owing to the fact that so many infants must be nourished by means of artificial foods. The secondary causes of the high infantile mortality are the acute catarrhal inflammations of the gastro-intestinal and respiratory tracts. The following table shows the relative frequency of the diseases of the type of acute catarrhal inflammations of the gastro-intestinal and re- spiratory tracts as compared with the death-rate from the acute infectious diseases, of diseases of the nervous sys- tem, and the deaths from all causes in children under one year of age, in Philadelphia during the years 1890 to 1894, inclusive: Deaths under one year from— 1890. 1891. 1892. 1893- 1894. Di.seases of gastro-intestinal tract . . . 5288 2223 767 32S 940 5488 2479 809 303 986 5693 2683 882 300 908 5710 2744 856 328 916 5472 2694 775 325 S43 The following table shows the total number of deaths](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21358539_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
