TABLE 13.-SHOWING DEATHS AND DEATH-RATES FROM DIARRHEAL DISEASES OF CHILDREN IN COUNTIES AND IN CITIES OF NEW JERSEY, OF OVER 5,000 POPULATION, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1901. SCALE YEAR DEATH-RATE CHART SHOWING DEATHS IN NEW JERSEY FROM DIARRHOEAL DISEASES OF CHILDREN PER 10,000 INHABITANTS FOR THE TWENTY-THREE YEARS ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1901. Diphtheria. The mortality from diphtheria has still further declined during the past year, and the records show that the number of deaths due to this disease was 834. This number is 93 less than the deaths which occurred from this affection during the preceding year, and 506 less than the average for twenty-three years. TABLE 14-DEATHS IN NEW JERSEY FROM DIPHTHERIA FOR THE THIRTEEN YEARS ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1901. Years ............................................................................ 1889. 1890. 189. 1892. 1893. 1894. 1895. 1896. 1897. 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. Deaths from diphtheria........ 1,574 1,575 1,787 1,776 1,677 1,294 1,464 1,758 1,882 950 777 927 834 TABLE 15.-DEATHS FROM DIPHTHERIA IN THE CITIES OF OVER 5,000 POPULATION IN NEW JERSEY FOR THE THIRTEEN YEARS ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1901. 1,187,228 1,214'1,241′1,357|1,203|1,097|972|1,065|1,343 1,017 656 574 681 597 *Record began 1897. †Record began 1896. 18,015. East Orange was incorporated as a city in 1900. 1879 1880.. Typhoid Fever.-The number of deaths from typhoid fever has gradually decreased during the past eleven years, notwithstanding the steady increase in population. The deaths from this cause for the year ending June 30th, 1901, exceeded those for the preceding year by . only 19, and the number for that year (1900) was smaller than for any similar period during the past twenty-one years. The number of deaths from this disease in the municipalities of the State was 288 (2.42 per 10,000 population), and in the districts outside of the limits of municipalities the number of deaths was 87 (1.18 per 10,000 population). TABLE 16.-SHOWING DEATHS PER 10,000 POPULATION FROM TYPHOID FEVER IN NEW JERSEY FOR THE TWENTY-THREE YEARS ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1901. YEAR. Population.* Number of deaths Deaths from typhoid fever per 10,000 population. .......... ......... * Population estimated except for census years. |