TABLE 6.-SHOWING AVERAGE NUMBER OF DEATHS FOR EACH OF THE CLASSIFIED DISEASES FOR TWENTY-THREE YEARS, AND ALSO THE INCREASE OR DECREASE OF DEATHS FROM EACH OF THE CLASSIFIED DISEASES OBTAINED BY COMPARING DEATHS IN 1900 WITH DEATHS IN 1901.

TABLE 7-DEATHS IN NEW JERSEY FROM SIX SELECTED DISEASES FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30th, 1901, arrANGED IN ORDER OF GREATEST FREQUENCY.

TABLE 8.-DEATHS FROM CERTAIN SPECIFIED DISEASES FOR THE TWENTY-THREE ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1901, ARRANGED IN ORDER OF GREATEST

YEARS

FREQUENCY.

NAME OF DISEASE.

Number of deaths.

Acute lung

Consumption...

78,043

76,921

Diarrheal diseases of children...................................................................................................................

Adult brain and spinal diseases.
Diseases of heart and circulation.......
Brain and nervous diseases of children..
Digestive and intestinal diseases
Diphtheria and croup.

Renal and cystic diseases...........................................

Violent deaths...............................

Cancer.......

Typhoid fever..

70,911

.................

49,964

43,140

42,699

31,627

30,823

........................

27,376

25,278

TABLE 9.-SHOWING NUMBER OF DEATHS IN NEW JERSEY FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1901, FROM TEN SELECTED PREVENTABLE DISEASES, WITH

Measles.

Erysipelas.
Malarial fevers.

Scarlet fever.

|j Whooping cough.

Typhoid fever.

Diphtheria.

Deaths

.................

.........

69

155 173 375 834 3,469 3,612 Percentage of mortality....... .10 .19 .22 .28 .49 .55 1.21 2.69 11.17 11.63

Consumption.-The number of deaths recorded as being due to consumption during the statistical year ending June 30th, 1901, was 3,612. The following tables show the comparative mortality of this disease during the past twenty-three years. The chart exhibits the diminishing death-rate from this disease.

TABLE 10.-SHOWING DEATHS AND DEATH-RATES FROM CONSUMPTION IN NEW JERSEY, BY COUNTIES AND CITIES, PER 10,000 POPULATION, FOR YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1901.