TABLE 13.-LIST OF SANITARY DISTRICTS IN NEW JERSEY IN WHICH DEATHS FROM TYPHOID FEVER OCCURRED DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1899, WITH NUMBER OF DEATHS, SOURCE OF WATER-SUPPLY AND NATURE OF DRAINAGE.-Cont.

TABLE 14-LOCALITIES IN NEW JERSEY HAVING PUBLIC WATER-supplies.

TABLE 14-LOCALITIES IN NEW JERSEY HAVING PUBLIC WATER-SUPPLIES.— -Cont.

Source of supply.

Scarlet Fever.-This disease is still continuing to maintain the mild character which it has assumed during the past three years, there having been only 187 deaths recorded for the year ending June 30th, 1899, this number being 284 less than the average for the past twentyone years.

Measles. No extensive epidemic of measles occurred during the year, and the mortality was only 96, this being the smallest number of deaths from measles since 1895, and 63 less than the average for twenty-one years.

Whooping Cough.-The deaths reported from whooping cough number 282, an increase of 127, compared with the previous year. The average number of deaths from this disease for twenty-one years has been 231.

Malarial Fevers.-The prevalence of these affections has been much diminished in recent years in New Jersey, and the deaths ascribed to malarial influences for the last statistical year have been but 96. The average for the past 21 years has been 213.

COUNTY.

Small-pox.-Sixty-four cases of small-pox were reported during the year ending October 31st, 1899, but no deaths from this disease occurred.

The following table has been corrected to show the facts relating to vaccination of school children for the year 1899:

TABLE 15.-UNVACCINATED CHILDREN OF SCHOOL AGE IN NEW JERSEY, BY COUNTIES, FOR THE YEALS 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899.

Salem.....

6,567

3,040

6,533

2,764

6,522

3,242

6,413

3,048

Somerset..

1,171 7,566

984

Sussex

3,907

Union...

Warren

7,283
5,792 3,779 5,831
5,742 4,033
20,929 2,609 21,623 3,010 22,120 3,065
9,681 5,637 9,509 6,113 9,523 6,388 9,331 6,138

Total........

438,969 94,481 456,862 102,292 471,517 106,879 463,565 114,433

Of the total number of the children of the State of school age there were 94,481, or 21 per cent., unvaccinated in 1896; 102,292, or 22 per cent., unvaccinated in 1897; 106,879, or 22.67 per cent., unvaccinated in 1898, and 114,433 or 24.68 per cent., unvaccinated in 1899.

Bright's Disease has been separately classified for the year ending June 30th, 1899, this being the first time in New Jersey when deaths certified to have occurred from this cause have been specified in the mortality tables. Heretofore deaths from this cause have been included in the general classification, "Renal and Cystic Diseases." The number of deaths recorded from Bright's disease was 1,651, and the following table shows their distribution. In classifying Bright's disease all deaths certified as having resulted from albuminuria, uremia, nephritis and renal dropsy were also included in the group.