[Fourth] annual report of the secretary of the State Board of Health of the State of Michigan, for the fiscal year ending Sept 30, 1876.

Michigan (State). Board of Health.

Date:: 1876

Credit: [Fourth] annual report of the secretary of the State Board of Health of the State of Michigan, for the fiscal year ending Sept 30, 1876. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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$IG. Yes. 17. Less. 18. Less. . X ^ -u 19. Cannot, as I have not observed, and have no instruments for observation. 20'. . MOBTALITY REPOBT of ihe City, of Grand FMpids, commendnfj July 2, 1874, and ending February 29^ 1576'. 1874. July —- 10 August 45 September 56 October 35 November - 29 December - 20 January 20 February - 27 March ' 41 April 26 May -. 34 June 20 July 32 August 56 September 32 October 30 November.. 26 December . 38 384 187G. Jauuary.. February. 2& 35 I have no instrnments for taking meteorological observations,—so cannot report oit that. Anything you may desire hereafter I will try and be more prompt in answering. Respectfully yours, Grand Rapids, Michigan, March 15,1876. E. M. HUME.. HEPLIES BY E. F. STEATTAK, M. D., OF ST. JOSEPH, MICH. NoxK.—This report was forwarded to this Board by Dr. John Bell, of Benton Harbor, a regular correspondent of this Board. It seems to include data supplied by reports of several ob servers appomted by the Berrien County Medical Society. In a letter dated April IS, 1876, Dr.. Bell says the report covered more particularly the epidemic and endemic diseases. It will be seen that consumption is not mentioned. In the same letter. Dr. Bell says: As regards typhoid fever I must say I have not seen but two or three genuine cases since locating here, fourteen years ago. In, some seasons, we have a few cases of typho-malarial fever. Gentlemen of the Berrien County Medical Society : . The facts and figures from which to draw up a report of the prevailing diseases of the county for the year past (1875), have not been as full as could be desired. This is to be regretted, because a comparison of observations among medical men would re- veal the fact that, Avhilc malaria is a common cause of disease throughout the whole county, yet the diseases directly caused by it or complicated with it, are shaded ofl' according to location. Thus near the mouths of the streams we have intermittent pure and simple. Here also are seen, although less frequently than formerly, conges- tive chills, and pernicious fever. On the high ground back from the lake, with a greater altitude and better drainage, we find more cases of continued fever, typho-malarial typhoid pneumonia, and an occasional case of typhoid.. As an offset against our ever- lasting ague, we think, in such localities, scarlet fever, ervsipelas, diptheria, and ordinary bilious fevers even, are more apt to assume a malignant type. But exact toT-nmJ'?fnn?T''''''^ ^^T'^ anything. It would be of grea interest, for instance, to know from every practitioner what percentage of cases of remittent fever before '^n'?In'^Vfcontinued form, and the pi-oportiou of maligna nt sclrlet feJei- and sore throat to the whole number of cases. I -i.cuit,L ic\ei DISEASES BY SEASONS OF THE YEAK. men^ts ofn'lwfici'r/ i^L?''^''•^^/^'^f^^^ ^P* ^o be neglected in the state- Set of a SnTm^^^^ Z7 ^ f^V^^^^v^■''fV*^'' technically expretses the woes of the loSic nractic^^^ ^^^'^^S ''-^ common, and as uomesticpiactice oxdmanly provides for its treatment, but little thought is -iveir$