Report on the sanitary police of cities : presented to the American Medical Association at its annual session, held at Detroit, May, 1856 / by James M. Newman.

  • Newman, James M.
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1856
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Credit: Report on the sanitary police of cities : presented to the American Medical Association at its annual session, held at Detroit, May, 1856 / by James M. Newman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Zymotics have been broadly defined as those diseases which are propagated by emanations, from the ground, from decaying animal or vegetable matter, from cases of previous disease, or from over-cn >wded human beings, diseases which are, or may be epidemic, endemic, or contagious.1 The amount of mortality from this class of diseases, and the pro- portion borne by them to the entire mortality, are such as to arrest attention, and demand from us more than a passing remark. The total number of deaths in the United States for the year ending -June 1st, 1850, was 323,023. Of which 131,813, or 40.80607 per cent, were zymotics.2 •If we deduct from the above 31,506 deaths caused by cholera, we have by causes ordinarily in operation 291,517 deaths, and 100,307 deaths, or 34.4086 per cent., or over one-third produced by zymotics. Iti Massachusetts, for thirteen years and eight months, 29.05 per cent, of all diseases from specified causes were from zymotics.3 In RHODE Island, from June to December, 1853, 33.194 per cent., and for the year 1851, 37.193 per cent, were produced by the same causes.4 In NEW YORK City, the deaths resulting from zymotics were in the proportion— In year 1852 of 30.29 per cent. 1853 25.935 « 1854 35.356 In Boston and LoWELlf they bear the following proportionate rate of mortality :— Tears 1836 to 1840. 1841 to 1845. 184« to 1848. In Boston, 26.51 per cent, of all deaths. 28.36 per cent. 29.96 per cent. Lowell, 37.94 « 35.47 48.83 In BuFFALO^the deaths and proportional mortality were:— Total deaths. By zymotics. Ter cent. In 1854 2,936 1,321 44.99 « 1855 1,856 559 30.11 ' Second Registration Report of Rhode Island, p. 69. i Mortality Statistics of the Censu8 of 1850 of the United States—By J. D. B. 1).. Bow. 3 Thirteenth Registration Report, p. 158. « Second Registration Report, Rhode Island, p. 44. B Annual Report Of City Inspector, N. Y., for 1S53, p. 226. « \nnual Report of City Inspector, N. Y., for 1854, p. 232. » Transactions American Medical Association, vol. ii. p. 504.