Annual Report of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

ter." This has caused a falling off of such complaints at this office,

but the end is not yet.

There has also been received and consigned to the waste basket upwards of 1,500 anonymous communications.

And when we consider that the great bulk of this pollution is above cellar level, then only can we realize the necessity for its prompt removal.

Respectfully submitted.

S. H. MARTIN,
Chief Inspector.

Principal Causes of Death in the City of Philadelphia from January 1, 1880, to January 1, 1887.
Board of Health by WILLIAM B.

Compiled for the

State

ATKINSON,

D., Medical Inspector.

Causes of Death in the City of Philadelphia, from January 1, 1886, to January 1, 1887.

Reduced to a nosographical basis, from the report of the Registrar, for the State Board of Health, by WILLIAM B. ATKINSON, M. D., Medical Inspector.

All causes,

Specified causes,

Classes I-Zymotic diseases,
II-Constitutional diseases,
III-Local diseases,.....
IV-Developmental diseases,
V-Violent deaths,

Orders

2,986

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Males.

Females.

Boys.

Girls.

Causes of Death in the City of Philadelphia-Continued.

Under 1 year.

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