MEDICAL SUUVEY OF THE TOWN OF TAYTAY. 



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gioii}) "under 5 3-eais'" shoAving 50 and 59.92, respectively, against 26.7-1: 

 for tlie Tnited States. The difference from 10 to 39 years is not marked. 

 Tlie ]jioportion of tine death rate occurring in the groups ahove 40 is 

 decidedly less. 



Table 5 exhibits the age distribution of deaths during 1908 attributed 

 to the more important causes, numerically speaking. The most notice- 

 able feature is that two-thirds of the deaths attributed to chronic bron- 

 chitis occun'ed between the ages of 15 and 50. Almost certainly the 

 majority of these were due to taiberculosis. The writer believes that 

 25 deaths per year from pulmonary tuberciilosis would be much nearer 

 the truth than 10, Avhich is the number assigned in the records. It is 

 also much more nearly in accoixl with our estimate of 50 to 60 cases of 

 pulmonary tuberculosis existing in the town at the present time. 



Table 5. — Age disMhvtion of deaths in 1908. 



Chronic bronchitis- 



o 



a 



J? 



►J 





2 



d 



tD 

 iM 



1 

 1 



10 



i 

 a) 



m 





O 



1 



1 



S 



s 



1 



i 



0) 

 (N 



o 

 o 



>^ 



en 



3 

 8 



o 



o 



CO 



£ 



CD 

 >-. 



o 

 o 



S 



a» 

 >, 

 a> 



3 



O 

 in 



0) 



3 



o 



to 



a 



1 



1 



3 



8 



4 



.... 



3 



n 



26 

 40 

 25 

 2 

 2 

 4 

 8 

 10 



7 

 7 

 76 



Infantile convulsions 



Dysentery 



Fever infection .._ 



33 



2 



3 



2 

 5 



2 



• 1 



4 

 1 













1 









1 



-— 



1 



1 

 1 











" 



Grippe _„ 

















1 











Malaria 







1 







1 



2- 





1 

 2 



1 











Tvphoid 







2 



1 

 1 







1 



Undetermined 







2 



1 

 3 



18 



2 



2 



3 



11 











1 



3 



Gastro enteritis: | 

 .\eute _ 2 



1 

 2 

 7 



1 

 12 



1 



1 









Chronic __. ._ 



4 

 17 





















Smallpox _ 



9 



2 



















Pulmonarv tuberculosis..' 





1 



1 



4 



3 









1 























The deatlis attributed to infantile convulsions merit an age distribu- 

 tion in smaller groups, as follows: 



Under 30 days 

 Under 1 to 2 months 

 Under 2 to 3 months 

 Under 3 to 4 months 

 Under 4 to 5 months 

 Under 5 to 6 months 

 Under 6 months to 1 year 

 Over 1 vear 



16 

 4 

 3 

 2 



1 

 1 



The seven deaths in chihlren over one year ol' age, and probably 

 most of those between tbrce moiitbs and one year, were proljablv (hie to 

 other causes. 



