o MORTALITY OF PHILADELPHIA FOE 1862. REPORT METEOROLOGY AND EPIDEMICS. BEAD EE50K3 THB COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 4, 1863. BY WILSON JEWELL, M.D., PRESIDENT OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA; MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH OF PHILADELPHIA, ETC. • Extracted fipm The American Journal of the Medical Sciences for July, 1863. PHILADELPHIA: COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET. 1863. 1 gtorlttlitj 0f Itilahljth for 1862. REPORT OK METEOROLOGY AND EPIDEMICS. READ BEFORE THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA. In offering my Annual Report on the Meteorology and Epidemics of our city for 1862, or in other words, on its hygienic condition and relative mortality, I would acknowledge our indebtedness to a beneficent Providence, for the good degree of health with which we have been favoured through- out the year. Meteorological Record.—The accompanying abstract of meteoro- logical observations is furnished as usual by Prof. J. A. Kirkpatrick, A. M. His observations are made for the Smithsonian Institution. He has also added a comparative table of atmospheric phenomena for the last eleven years, for Philadelphia. The mean temperature of the year 1862 was 53.58°, and stands one and one-eighth of a degree below that of 1861, and seven-tenths above that for eleven years. The maximum temperature (95£°) occurred on the 7th day of July. The minimum temperature (8°) was on the 21st of December. The range of the temperature for the year was 871°. The warmest day of the year was August 9th, when the mean of the thermometer stood 87.67°. The coldest day was December 20th, when the mean for the day was 15.83°. • The maximum pressure of the atmosphere (30.555 inches) occurred on Nov. 16th; the minimum (29.216 inches) was on February 24th. The mean of the barometer for the year was 29.846 inches, which was a frac- tion lower than for 1861, and for the average of eleven years. The force of vapour was less than for 1861, and for the average of eleven years. The relative humidity of the atmosphere was greater than for 1861, but less than the average for eleven years. The amount of rain that fell was nearly an inch more than in 1861, 45.656 inches, but three-quarters of an inch less than the average for eleven years. It rained or snowed 134 days during the year. The month of June furnished the greatest amount of rain, 6.592 inches, when it rained 15 days. August the least, 1.455 inches, and for only 7 days. 2 General Abstract of Meteorological Observations, made at Philadelphia, Pa., during the year 1862. By James A. Kirkpatrick, A. M., Prof, of Civil Engineering in the Central High School of Philadelphia. (Barometer sixty feet above mean tide in the Delaware River.) 1862. Thermometer. ------------------,------------------. Barometer Reduced to 32° F. But not corrected for altitude. "Months. Max. Min. Range. Mean of daily oscilla-tions. Means. Max. Min. Range. Means. Monthly., Mean daily. 7 A.M. 2 P.M. ! 9 P.M. Ave-rage. Monthly. Mean daily. . 7 A.M. 2 P.M. 9 P. M. Are-rage. January February March April . May . June . July . August Septembe October Novenrbe Decembe r r r o 64 .r)2 66 82 85 89 954 95 87 86 71 64 o 10 16 22 « 28 40 47 53 54 48 35 27 8 o 44 36 34 54 45 42 424 41 39 51 44 56 o 6.04 5.55 3.95 5.89 .5.77 5.34 4.23 3.89 4.30 5.48 5.94 6.46 o 10.21 10.89 14.44 17.87 " 19.81 17.60 17.50 16.56 16.22 15.31 13.40 12.74 o 29,36 28.36 34.24 44.57 57.85 64.57 71.13 71.47 63.53 52.70 40.6T 32.24 o 34.47 36.00 44.21 55.23 70.08 74.72 82.06 82.93 76.03 64 29 48.18 3§.76 o 31.97 31.64 39.18 48.28 61.32 66.75 73.60 75.13 67.55 56.98 43.25 34.71 o 31.93 32.00 39.21 49.36 63.08 68.68 75.60 76.51 69.04 57.99 44.03 35.57 inches. 30.408 30.322 30.173 30.321 30.058 30.146 30.156 30.099 30.086 30.201 30.555 30.495 inches. 29.325 29.216 29.276 29.422 29.518 29.375 29.487 29.557 29.398 29.307 29.380 29.319 inches. 1.083 1.106 .897 .899 .540 .771 .669 .542 .688 .894 1.175 1 176 inches. .261 .225 .173 .146 .124 .123 .107 .122 .128 .151 .159 .197 inches. 29.942 29.939 29.804 30.025 29.785 29.738 29.743 29.829 29.881 29.865 29.877 29.932 inches. 29.894 29.891 29.747 29.979 29.740 29.706 29,724 29.74)6 29.845 29.825 29.823 29.895 inches. 29.931 29.922 29.795 29.994 29.760 29.728 29.731 29.818 29.876 2!>. ton 29.870 29.936 inches. 29.922 ' 29.917 29.782 29.999 29.762 2ft.721 29.733 29.SI 4 29.867 29 850 29.857 29.921 Annual means 95 J 8 87J 5.15 15.21 49.22 59.00 52.53 53.58 30.555 29.216 1.339 .160 29.863 29.822 29.{,.32 , 29.846 29.955 29.951 29.850 20 848 29.759 29.757 29.SCS , 29.V3H Winter . . . . Spring ." . . . Summer.... Autumn .... 64 85 95J 87 10 22 47 27 54 63 48£ 60 5.42 " 5.20 4.49 5.24 11.89 17.37. 17.22 14.98 30.08 45.55 69.06 52.30 37.58 56.51 79.90 62.83 33.16 49.59 71.83 55.93 33.60 50 55 73.60 57.02 30.462 30.321 30.156 30.555 29.216 29.276 29.375 29.307 1.246 1.045 .781 1.248 .215 .148 .117 .146 29.973 29.871 29.770 29.874 29.926 29.822 29.742 29.831 For eleven years 100i -5i 106 5.57 15.19 49.69 59.96 53.14 54.26 , 30.704 28.884 1.820 .156 29.890 29.850 , 29.874 J 29.871 Meteorological Observations—Continued. 1862. Relative Humidity. Force of Vapour. Rain and Melted Snow. Clouds. Percentage of sky covered. Winds. Dew-point. Months. Means. 03 a Means. 0 o a -a o Means. Monthly resultant; No. of times in 1000. oj a Means.- !3 W2), shows a decrease in population, by the deaths exceeding the births, equal to 2.38 per cent. This calculation is based upon the aggregate of deaths recorded for the year, but if the deaths of soldiers are deducted, the births will furnish an increase in the population of 6 per cent, over the waste by death. The number of births on record from our coloured population amounted to 251. The deaths in the population reached 721. This record gives an excess of deaths among blacks of 65 per cent, over the births, and if the hypothesis be true, that a preponderance of births over deaths in a commu- nity is an index of prosperity in numerical growth, the iuference is that our black population is diminishing. Twin births to the number of 154 have been recorded. One triplet birth was returned for the year, in the month of December. The stillbirths amounted to 711. Of this number 414 were males and 297 were females; an excess of male stillborn children equal to 39 per cent. Marriages.—The total of marriages recorded for the year (Table II.) have been 4662, an increase of 245 over those for 1861. Table II.—Ages of Persons Married and recorded under the Registra- tion Law for the year ending December 31, 1862. AGES OF THE WOMEN. M H z,M H O H Under 20 20 to 2.3 25 to 30 30 to 40 40 to 50 50 to 60 60 to 70 70 to 80 Age not given. a w H Pm O w O ■< Under 20 15 4 -- 19 20 to 25 565 798 92 13 3 12 1483 25 to 30 166 760 328 64 4 17 1339 30 to 40 62 i 326 276 198 20 1 6 . 889 271 40 to 50 2 38 58 124 42 1 6 60 to 60 4 6 35 24 16 1 1 87 60 to 70 1 1 3 10 10 1 1 27 70 to 80 1 3 3 2 . • Age not given. 6 8 7 2 515 538 Total of the Women. 816 1939 768 440 106 31 4 558 4662 13 This department of the office does not afford the same amount of satis- faction that is given in the other branches. The defect is due alone to the indifference on the part of clergymen in making their returns in accordance with the law. • The table referred to gives the ages of the parties married as far as they were returned. It will be seen, however, that in 1096, or about 12 per cent. of the names returned, the ages were not given. Of the parties married, 816, or 17.50 per cent, of the brides, were under twenty years of *age, whereas only 19^ of the grooms, or 00.47 per cent, were in their minority. The most popular age for marriage appears to be between twenty and twenty-five. During this quinquennial period there were 1939 brides, equal to 41.59 per cent, of the total of marriages, and 1483 grooms, equal to 31.81 per cent. Previous to this period, or twenty-five years of age, the brides, in point of numbers, are in the ascendant, but beyond it thej rapidly decline, while the grooms increase. Between twenty-five and thirty, there were only 768 brides or 16^ per cent., and 1339 or 28.72 per cent, of grooms. There are nine marriages registered of men between seventy and eighty, and four women between the ages of sixty and seventy. Table III. furnishes a record of the nativity of the brides and grooms. Table III.—Number of Marriages registered under the Registration Law for the year ending December 31, 1862, with the Nativity of the Brides and Grooms. • • BIKTHPLACE OF BRIDES. Total op Grooms. NATIVITIES. United States. Foreign. Not given. United States . . . 2234 239 26 2499 425 1535 4 1964 Not given .... 27 14 158 199 Total of Brides .... 2686 H88 188 4662 Of- the whole number of persons married, 5185, equal to 55 per cent., were American born, and 3752, or 40 per cent., were of foreign birth. 387 or 4 per cent, of the parties married, were returned without their place of birth being named. 2686, or 57.61 percent, of the brides were American born; of these, 425, or 16 per cent., married foreigners, while only 9 per cent, of the grooms born in the United States married foreign women. 14 Deaths.—The following table furnishes a general summary of the deaths for the year 1862:— White . Coloured Total Males Females Total . Male minors or children Female " " Total minors Male adults . Female adults Total adults Total . Deaths from registered diseases Deaths from stillborn Deaths from old age Deaths from unknown causes Deaths from external and accidental causes 14,376 721 8,315 6,782 4,266 3,772 4,049 3,010 15,097 15,097 8,038 7,059 13,232 711 219 97 838 Total from all causes 15,097 15,097 A comparison of this total of 15,097 with the total returns of the pre- vious year, 1.861, will show an increase of deaths recorded for 1862, amounting to 629, equivalent to an increase of 4 per cent., and is the (highest aggregate on record of any former year. The announcement of this fact is at variance with my congratulatory introduction, and requires an explanation. It would be doing great injustice to the sanitary and mortuary interests of our city if the conclusion should be entertained that the augmentation of deaths for the year 1862, as found upon the record, has been the result of a high rate of city mortality growing out of, and influenced by the inva- sion and progress of epidemic diseases. Fortunately, there is ample and incontestable evidence to prove the contrary. A single glance at the death-table from zymotics—an index of public health—a class of diseases by which may be distinguished the salubrity or unhealthiness of the year, furnishes the proof that they have fallen off' in the aggregate to the extent of 558, equal to 16 per cent, when compared with those of the previous year, 1861. One remarkable sign of the improved condition of the health of our city is the fact that these destructive epidemic diseases, scarlet fever, smallpox, aaid diphtheria, which prevailed in 1861 to a fearful degree, carrying Jo the grave 2450 of our population, have this year carried off only 1397 or 57 percent, less than in 1861, and ere the year 1862 had closed, their epi- demic influence was so far diminished as scarcely to have been recognized in the community. , There is, however, an agency foreign to the ordinary operating causes for the increase of our city mortality that has contributed in a large degree to swell the number of the annual death-roll. It is the war in which the country is at present involved.' From this cause alone it can be shown that 1202 of the deaths registered are of the number who had fallen on the 15 battle-field, or had died from disease contracted in the camp, or on the march, many of whom have expired in the government hospitals throughout our city, and many who had returned home only to die among their friends. None of these deaths properly belong to the annual mortality of the city, and in order to form a correct estimate, every one of them should be de- ducted. By this method the mortality will be reduced to 13,895, or about 4 per cent, less than that of 1861. It may therefore with safety be announced that, notwithstanding the successful operation of the registration law, to which I so fully referred in , my last report, and which enables us to secure a nearer approximation to the true number of deaths than ever before, the deaths of 1862 fall below those for 1861. This result furnishes the evidence that the city has been com- paratively healthy during the year. Nor is this good share of health to be ascribed in any measure to exten- sive sanitary improvements through the agency of our municipal authorities. As in former years, so with the past, very little interest has been taken towards the improvement of the hygiene of our city on the part of our councils. The river docks continue to be receptacles for every description of filth, sending forth their fetid and deleterious miasma into the atmosphere; the city sewerage, with all the attention recently bestowed upon the traps at the inlets to the culverts, still afford imperfect drainage. Under existing arrangements, which allow the indiscriminate use of the culverts for con- veying away# the deposits of privies and water-closets, as well as the solid refuse from houses, yards, gutters, and streets, they may eventually entail upon the community a far greater sanitary evil than they are designed to remove. The system of street-cleaning is still defective in many essentials. At . best, it is very imperfectly executed. Many districts of the city, where the greatest need exists for sanitary conservation, receive but little if any at- tention. Intra-mural interments, as applicable to those graveyards located in densely-populated neighbourhoods and in grounds already crowded to satu- ration with the decomposing remains of the dead, continue to be a nuisance, dangerous to public health, demanding legislative enactment "as the only certain remedy for their entire abatement. The proper disposal of street dirt and kitchen garbage, with their dis- gusting and unhealthy emanations, especially during the warm months— underground and cellar tenements, and other domiciliary arrangements, where defective light and ventilation with an overcrowded population and a want of the common conveniences of life prevail—slaughter-houses, hogs and pens, cow stables, filthy yards and alleys, together with a host of offensive manufacturing establishments, and a great diversity of minor nuisances, continue to be sanitary evils, crying aloud for redress. These and similar causes may be regarded as among the prominent bane- ful influences contributing to depress the vital energies of our population, and engendering diseases of zymotic origin—diseases that are preventable, and which, with a more general knowledge of the laws of hygiene and a wisely directed practice, would in a great measure be obviated. In addition to these prevalent and established causes for atmospheric contamination during the year, our once quiet and peaceful city was selected by the government as a location admirably adapted for hospital accommodations for the sick and wounded of the army. During the year 16 just closed there have been as many as twenty-two (22) military hospitals opened and occupied in various sections of the city. Great anxiety at one time was felt for the health of the city when these hospitals were about to be opened. It was hardly to be expected that the introduction of several thousand cases of wounded and sick soldiers, under the most unfavourable circumstances for hygienic purposes, could take place—in addition to our ordinary amount of disease—without their exert- ing a contaminating atmospheric influence upon the sick as well as upon the healthy of the community. Nor was the fact that camp and typhoid fevers and dysenteries, and suppurating wounds of every description, would make up a large majority of the cases, and that the remainder would comprise the broken-down and feeble of the army, whose depraved systems were already thoroughly prepared for infection, calculated to lessen the excitement in the public mind. It is highly gratifying, however, to be able to report that these fears and apprehensions have proved groundless. The admirably selected locations of these hospitals, with but few exceptions; the excellent management and unremitted attention of the surgeons in charge; the skill displayed by the attending surgeons and physicians; the valuable hygienic arrangements instituted, and, in short, the entire medical police established throughout, have proved of inestimable value in preventing the introduction and spread of epidemic and infectious diseases. It would seem to be almost out of place, in this report, to allude in any manner to the extraordinary and praiseworthy services bestowed upon the sick and wounded soldiers, who have been the recipients, from time to time, of these hospitals, by all classes of our citizens. I cannot refrain from noticing more especially the commendable and the disinterested devotion of the ladies, who have contributed so largely to the alleviation of the sufferings of these noble men, by their personal attendance, and have dis- tributed with a liberal hand supplies and delicacies of every description, with a kindness and earnestness which belong alone to woman. Through the politeness of the surgeons in charge of the government hospitals located in our city, I have been able to furnish the number of cases under treatment, as well as the number of deaths during the year— or, from the date of their opening up to the 31st of December, 1862, as follows:— 17 Opened in 1862. Location. Surgeons. Cases. Deaths.' Per ct. Deaths to cases. 1 Jan. 1st June 1st March 9th ii March 5th Aug. 19th Jan 1st June 18th Sept. 3d March July 5th July 30th K Aug. 18th u Nov. 2d u March 1st July 11th ii it K Broad Street1 W. Philadelphia South Street2 5th & Buttonwood Wood Street » Filbert Street Christian Street Master Street Race Street St. Joseph's Germantown Episcopal 4th & George Hestonville 12th & Buttonwood Haddington Turner's Lane Summit House Catharine Street Broad & Prime Islington Lane Camac's Woods Cooper Shop Union Hospital Dr. John Neal " Hayes " Hart " Boumonville " Horner '.' Breed " Reese " Goddard " Burpee " Moon " Darrach " Thomas " Harlow " Agnew " Morton " Levis " E. S. Dunster " Sergeant " Picot " Kenderdine " J.V. Patterson " W. M. Camac " Nebinger " Ward 3,206 5,156 1,163 1,665 1,021 967 964 953 828 713 651 531 527 301 257 191 606 773 199 270 17 14 89 164 47 78 22 16 40 43 9 29 4 33» ' 46 4 1 17 32 8 353 1 2.50 3 4 4.75 2 2 4 4.50 1 4 .50 7 9 1 0.39 2.75 4 4 13 1 in 36 lin31| 1 in 25 1 1 in 21 1 1 in 46 1 in 60 1 in 24 1 in 22 1 in 92 1 in 24 1 in 257 1 in 16 1 in 11£ 1 in 75 1 in 163 1 in 24 1 in 25 1 in 7 linl7 20,9731 718 3.39 1 in 44 8 14 From this record it will be seen that 20,973 medical and surgical cases have been treated in these hospitals, with a loss by death of only 71.8, or 3 per cent!, and as one death in every 44 of the cases. When all the unfavourable circumstances surrounding these sick and wounded soldiers from the date of their injuries on the battle field, or their sickness in camp, their exposure and sufferings, from the want of timely sur- gical and medical attention, the distance they were conveyed by land and water carriage, and the unpromising condition in which many of them were found upou their arrival at the hospital to which they were conveyed, some of whom were moribund, and quite a number dying on that or the follow- ing day—the wonder is, that the percentage of mortality among them was not far higher. No stronger evidence could be produced of the skilful man- ner in which the medical and surgical treatment in the government hospitals of our city has been conducted, than this limited percentage of deaths. Estimating the population of the city at 600,000, and the #aggregate deaths on record 15,097, as represented in Table No. 4, which includes 711 stillborn children, and 1202 deaths of soldiers, which do not properly belong to our city mortality, and it gives us one death in every 40, or twenty-five deaths in every 1000 of the population. By deducting the stillborn and the deaths of soldiers which I have desig- nated as of foreign origin, and the result presents a more favourable esti- mate ; one death in every 45 of the population, and twenty-two in every 1000. 1 The regular treatment did not commence until June 1. 2 Opened in 1861. 1 Many of these were moribund when brought from the cars. 18 Of the sexes the rate of mortality has been S315 males, and 6782 females. This is an unusual excess of male deaths, equal to 1523 or 23 percent., amounting to more than double the ordinary excess of deaths among males, and maybe properly attributed to the large number of the remains of soldiers brought here for burial, and of those who expired in the U. S. hospitals in our city. The adult deaths were 7059 ; the minors or children 8038. This excess of deaths in minors, or those under twenty years of age, has been unusu- ally small, not over 14 per cent. Last year it reached 64 per cent. The highest number of deaths in any one period of life, was among infants under one year. They amounted to 3661 (including the stillborn) equal to-23 per cent, of all the deaths. Those under five years numbered 6626, equal to 44 per cent. By reference it will be found that these figures fall considerably below those of the previous year. This difference is owing mainly to the decline of deaths from smallpox, scarlet fever and diphtheria. The number of adult deaths compared with those of minors is a very prominent feature in this report. Those between 20 and 40 years amounted to 3336, or 48.50 per cent, above those in the same period for 1861. Thbse between 40 and 70 were 2666, or 18.69 per cent, more than those in 1861. From seventy upwards to extreme old age, the deaths were 1057, or 18.69 per cent, over those in 1861; the variation, though not very great, is sufficient to prove that some extraordinary influence was at work to effect the change. The same outside cause, to which I have already adverted—the mortality in the army of the United States, will in a great degree account for these results. Monthly Mortality.—The deaths for several months throughout the year are given in the accompanying table. Return of Deaths in each Month, showing the number of Deceased Males and Females, Adults and Children, for the year 1862. 1862. no d © o3 3 2 • "3 © Months. S PM < o E« January .... 664 650 557 757 1,314 February 576 504 460 620 l,nbO March . 601 603 531 673 1,2( (4 April . 660 553 586 627 1,213 May . # 685 660 653 692 1,345 June . 551 451 480 522 1,002 July . 966 801 649 1,118 1,767 August 1,061 594 803 952 1,755 September 573 464 . 490 547 1,037 October . 754 481 676 559 1,235 November 570 451 549 472 1,021 December 654 470 625 499 1,124 ' i 8,315 6,782 7,059 8,038 15,097 15,097 15,097 19 The greatest number of deaths in any one month was in July, which fur- nished '1767, while August contributed 1755. June gave the lowest, 1002, and November the next, 1021. The deaths in every month exceeded 1000, and have been more equally distributed than usual. The month: of May, generally a healthy period of the year, gave 1345 deaths—the third in numerical order of mortality. The months of October, November and December, furnished a heavier mortality among adults than in children, equal to 20 per cent. This is an uncommon occurrence, and can only be accounted for by the deaths among soldiers. Mortality in Wards.—The following table presents the deaths in each of the twenty-four wards, with the population of each ward according to the last census. The ratio of deaths to population calculated in this table, will differ from that elsewhere given, as it is based on the census of 1860, instead of reckoning the natural increase of the population. Table IV.—Mortality in each Ward, with the Population (according to the late Census), the ratio of Deaths to Population, the Percentage of Deaths in each Ward to the Total Mortality, and Deaths in each thou- sand of the Population. Also the Deaths from unknown Wards, from the Almshouse and from the Country. Per cent, of Deaths in • WARDS. Population Deaths. Deaths to deaths to to- each thou- last census. population. tal mortality. sand of population. First .... 30,886 1,037 1 in 30 6.86 33.48 Second 29,123 827 1 " 36 5.47 28.51 Third . . 19,929 491 1 " 41 3.25 24.55 Fourth 23,461 711 1 " 33 4.70 30.87 Fifth . 24,792 520 1 " 48 3.44 20.80 Sixth . 14,882 350 1 " 43 2.31 23.33 Seventh 31,267 829 1 " 38 5.49 26.74 Eighth 27,770 465 1 " 60 3.08 16.60 Ninth . 17,196 338 1 " 51 2.23 19.88 Tenth . 21,849 599 1 " 37 3.96 27.27 Eleventh 16,681 384 1 " 44 2.54 22.58 Twelfth 16,681 429 1 " 39 2.84 25.23 Thirteenth 20.045 380 1 " 53 2.51 19.00 Fourteenth 24J258 493 1 " 50 3.26 20.54 Fifteenth . 32,091 819 1 " 40 5.42 25.59 Sixteenth. 20,067 520 1 " 39 3.44 26.00 Seventeenth 23,264- 677 1 " 35 4.48 29.43 Eighteenth 20,441 596 1 " 35 3.94 29.80 Nineteenth 38,828 1,042 1 " 38 6.90 • 26.71 Twentieth 29,963 736 1 " 41 4.87 24.53 Twenty-first 17,159 284 1 " 61 1.88 16.70 Twenty-second . 17,173 286- 1 " 61 1.89 16.82 Twenty-third 23,985 329 1 " 73 2.17 13.70 Twenty-fourth . 23,738 660 1 " 36 4.37 27.50 Twenty-fifth . . 130 t).86 Unknown. . . 135 0.89 Almshouse . . 508 3.36 From the country 522 3.59 Total for 12 mos. 15,097 100.00 Total population 565,529 Ratio of deaths to population lin 38 20 The first ward, this year, furnishes the highest number of deaths accord- ing to its population, 1037, and the twenty-third the lowest, 320. The former giving 33 and the latter 13 in every thousand of their population. The first ward therefore appears to have been the most unhealthy, and the twenty-third the healthiest. The deaths in the nineteenth ward are reduced a fraction less than in 1861, and although charged with 1042 deaths, it rates the eighth in the line of descent from the first ward, the most unhealthy, the deaths being 26.71 in every thousand of its population. The seventeenth ward last year gave 36 deaths to every thousand of its population, and was rated the most unhealthy. This year it contributes only 29.80 to each thousand, and stands the fourth in numerical order from the first, the most unhealthy. The five most unhealthy wards, all of them crowded and defective in san- itary improvement, have been the first, fourth, eighteenth, seventeenth and second, in the order named. They have furnished 32 per cent, of all the deaths for the year. These are the same found grouped together in last year's report as the most unhealthy—substituting, however, the second for the nineteenth, and taking its place as the fifth in the line of descent from the most unhealthy. There has been an increase in the number of deaths recorded, over those of the former year 1861—in fifteen of the wards, while in the ninth, eleventh, thirteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-fir,st and twenty-third, they have fallen off. The eighth ward, with its 27,770 inhabitants, continues to present a very favourable record for health. Furnishing only 1 death in every sixty, or 16 deaths in every thousand of its population, while its adjoining ward on the south, the seventh, with a population of 31,267, contributes 1 death in every 38, or 26,|w in every thousand of its population. This unfavourable contrast with its northern neighbor, can readily be accounted for by the numerous imperfections that will be found to exist in its sanitary condition, particularly in its eastern, southern and south-western sections. The ninth, thirteenth and fourteenth wards, with their combined popula- tion of 61,499, present also a very favourable record. They return 1 death to 51, or 19.80 in every thousand of their population. Zymotic Diseases.—This class embraces those which belong to epi- demics, endemics, and contagious diseases, and have their origin in causes which are specific and local, and considered as preventable wherever a care- ful attention is given to sanitary improvements.. These are the diseases which carry off so many of our infant population, especially among the indigent, and those who are compelled to rear their offspring in the crowded sections of the city, where the provision for ventilation, light, and other sanitary arrangements, is defective in the extreme. The deaths from the diseases under this head, as may be seen by the accompanying table (Table V.), have amounted to 3506. Compared with those of 1861, the previous year, and they are less by 558, or 16 per cent. Table V.—Zymotic, Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases, for 1862. Division 1. Showing Sex and Age. DISEASES. ■< o SEX. AGES. DD (-Hi b P ■< OS 0 so "3 S a 1* o CO 7-3 r-f o o d o o o o 0 0 0 m 0 0 0 O O 0 ■o 0 0 0 CD O O 0 0 0 CO s 0 0 0 0 3 d 0 O O d 0 0 0 0 0 1-1 Total 1 629 58 417 325 163 74 9 7 1 2 54 461 658 37 2 208 109 264 21 4 2 1 321 26 302 152 98 42 8 4 1 1 27 222 490 18 2 105 61 133 13 2 308 32 115 173 65 32 1 3 i 27 239 168 19 103 48 131 8 2 2 321 6 65 132. 43 25 2 i 8 220 114 7 105 57 105 12 2 308 5 52 169 31 21 * '2 15 236 71 5 103 48 108 4 2 2 428 4 61 26 20 26 1 1 2 35 2 98 17 52 11 3 170 3 23 54 38 6 1 5 82 7 55 45 44 4 1 1 31 14 125 9 7 1 7 228 36 3 46 33 66 1 1 1 6 77 3 3 3 101 31 5 7. 7 34 •3 io l 3 1 1 8 18 1 *3 3 13 9 3 2 5 2 91 3 2 14 1 4 133 15 22 6 2 3 2 12 3 258 5 1 4 22 1 8 54 5 30 5 2 2 5 2 90 9 1 16 2 4 31 1 13 5 1 4 59 7 7 1 6 38 2 6 6 1 4 34 3 6 1 10 20 "8 3 4 19 1 12 15 1 6 2 1 1 10 3 8 -4 2 1 2 1 1 1 47 300 24 89 28 7 5 '2-31 5 473 25 2 4 51 5 629 11 117 301 74 46 2 2 1 23 456 185 12 208 105 213 16 4 2 3506 2029 1477 1225 1182 787 538 608 278 52 141 494 231 133 106 65 48 20 1 1 1099 2407 Table V.—Zymotic, Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases for 1862—Continued. Division 2. Sliowing Location, Colour, Nativity, and Wards. a o o IS 1 ° s w o ;? J ft ° 05 Nativity. WAEDS. -r. a k O c « r. < DISEASES. til a to 'S a (e o a a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1 J 19 2021 22 23 24 25 < Ph o & Pm P 1 | . 1 1 ! P ! Cholera . 1 1 " infantum 2 20 10 623 5 1 6^ 37 26 22 11 13 41 ie| 9 17 20 19 ii' is 30 25 32 18 54 i 43 13 13 16 28 12 8 1 " morbus . 3 3 33 21 4 4 7 2 3 2 3 2j 1 3 2 1 lj 2 2 2 3 3 5 11 1 2 1 1 Diarrhrca 39 12 14 243 65 109 15 24 9 14 9 5 17 5; 6 15 8 fi 4! 2 11 22 14 23 39 15, 9 2 10 112 6 1 Diphtheria 6 16 299 1.1 13 11 16 7 12 13 9 15 11 12 12 6 14 10 19 22 5 9 12 26 15 .. 13 2o 12 5 3 Dysentery 1 5 6 103 38 22- 17 12 2 7 2 3 22 3 2 4 2 5 2 3 7 4 7 7 10i 6| 3, ti 4 14 3 hrysipelas 8 3 3 57 9 8 5 5 1 1 2 1 4 4 1 3 ?, 2 2 2 4 5 1 3 4| 5 ..| 1 .. 12 1 Fever, congestive . 1 4 a 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 " intermittent 1 1 4 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 .. 1 " eruptive 1 1 . " malignant . " remittent *2 1 8 1 35 13 1 6 2 2 2 2 2 i i 2 3 2 4 1 3 .........1 .. 2! 6 2 4, 3 2 1 4 1 " scarlet 7 7 17 440 3 18 30 30 22 19 14 9 36 19 10 13 7 9 15 23 44 12 17 19 22; 20 6 46 2 38 2 2 " typhoid 3 16 68 396 127 135 34 34 11 17 14 12 45 12 7 48 11 41 18 13 25 25 17 20 51 42 17 8 10 42 8 2 " typhus 1 1 22 15 4 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 2 8 4 .. .. 1 .. .. 1 " yellow 2 1 • • .. 1 15| ts 5 7 Hooping cough 19 7 204 1 3 4 12 7 10 12 7 16 10, 3 8 3 2 7| 11 10 2 15 7 3 6 1 .. Measles . 1 2 2 104 1 4 8 7 6 7 2 4 6 4 2 2 8 2 3i 2 7 5 3 1 9| 4 .. 1 9 fi ..| .. Smallpox 4 1 236 17 11 39 25 12 11 6 2 9 4 6 S 12 6 3 fi in 12 13 6 24 13' 15 12 1 7 4 4 Syphilis IS 2 14 7 1 1 2 1 l . .1 1 .. 14 Thrush oraphth* 1 4 1 i 1 \ aricella . . ■ . 2 1 1 rota! 75 103 155 2825 336 345 238 216 112 125 92 68219 1 93 61 132 86 107 81 100 181 122 141 1 12.J 271 192 1 72 71 85 296 i 40 23 There are, however, 526 of these deaths1 that do not belong to our city mortality, having been brought here from the army. By deducting these, the deaths under this head will be reduced to 2980, or 1084 less than the former year, equal to 26.50 per cent. To the total of deaths for the year, from all causes, these rate as 23 per cent., or one in every 4 and a third. The falling off in the deaths from scarlet fever, smallpox, and diphtheria, has been 1050 from those in 1861. This amount, however, has been made up in a great measure by the large increase of deaths from typhoid fever and diarrhoea. The former rose from 281, in 1861, to 658, and the latter from 183 to 417. The heavy increase of mortality in these diseases can only be ascribed to deaths in the government hospitals, and to those brought here from the seat of war for interment. . The only disease named in this class, that ljas been increased in its mor- tality to any extent, over that of the former year, and cannot be attributed to foreign* origin, has been hooping-cough, which has run up to 208 from 93. In every other disease, with the exception of those already named, there has been very little change. Cholera infantum, as usual, has provided 629 deaths for the record, and unlike many other diseases where the deaths are distributed over the entire year, its mortality is confined to the three summer months of July, August, and September, at the same time selecting 327 or 50 per cent, of its inno- cent victims from the first, second, third, seventh, fifteenth, nineteenth and twentieth wards, which may be considered by far the most crowded and the most unsanitary sections of the city. ae has been obtained from eases and casualties on the c lave been buried in this city 1 The following catalogi gives the names of the disi soldiers of our army who h Typhoid fever, 263 Wounds, gunshot, 292 Disease of the heart, 11 Peritonitis, 7 Diphtheria, 16 Apoplexy, 5 Intermittent fever, 2 Pleuro-pneumonia, 9 Typhoid pneumonia, 24 Drowning, , 3 Consumption, 88 Brain fever, 3 Pneumonia, 23 Inflammation of bowels, 3 Debility & exhaustion, 34 Convulsions, 3 Ossification of arteries, 1 Inflammation of brain, 6 Congestion of heart, 1 Ulceration of bqwels, 4 Intemperance, 3 Dropsy of the chest, 1 Measles, 3 Variola, 7 Congestion of the brain, 14 Gastro-enteritis, 8 Unknown, 35 Dropsy, 9 Congestion of bowels, 1 Tuberculosis, 4 Congestion of lungs, 1 Disease of kidneys, 2 Ossification of aortic valve, • 1 Compression of brain, 1 Abscess, 4 Pleurisy, 3 Scarlet fever, 1 Rheumatism, 1 Jaundice, 1 Dysentery, 40 Gangrene, 6 Tonsillitis, 1 Remittent fever, 7 Disease of lungs, 1 Pyemia, 15 Bilious fever, 1 Falling from a window , 1 Diarrhoea, 177 Softening of brain, 1 Accidents on railroad, 13 Fever, pernicious, 1 Sunstroke, 1 the Registration Office. It ertificates of death of those during the year 1862 :— Inflammation of heart, 1 Congestive fever, 1 Dyscrasia, 1 Erysipelas, 4 Scurvy, 3 Bronchitis, 3 Cholera morbus, 2 Marasmus, 4 Palsy, 1 Hepatitis, 1 Larynx, 1 Concussion of brain, 2 Gastric fever, 1 Parotitis, 1 Tetanus, 1 Effusion on brain, 1 Scrofula, 1 Epilepsy, . 2 Murder, 1 Scrofula, 1 Softening of the brain, 2 Consumption of stomach, 1 Trismus, 1 Mania-a-potu, 1 Total, 1,202 24 Scarlet fever, smallpox, and diphtheria have prevailed during the year, bul not to an alarming extent. During the first quarter, they furnished 437 deaths; in the second, 244 ; in the third, 154, and in the fourth, 215. These figures show a considerable decline in the secoud and third quarters, and although there was a slight increase in the fourth, they present a falling off of one-half from the first quarter. Smallpox fell off from 152 in the first quarter to 22 in the fourth. Scarlet fever, in the same period, from 189 to 92. Diphtheria, however, appears to have increased during the last quarter. The first gave 96 deaths; the second, 56 ; the third, 72 ; while the fourth run up to 101. Table A.— Wards in which Zymotic or Epidemic Diseases were prevalent and deaths over 150. rARDS. Population. Total deaths. Deaths from zymotics 1 . • . 30,886 1037 238 2 . . 29,123 827 2l£j 7 . . 31,264 829 219 15 . . 32,091 819 181 19 . . 38,828 1042 271 20 . . 29,963 736 192 24 . . 23,738 660' 221 215,893 5950 1538 F rom country 1693 Table B. — Wards in which Zymotic or Epidemic Diseases have not prevailed extensively, and where the deaths were under 150. Wards. Population. Total deaths. Deaths frosr 3.....19,929 491 112 4 . • . 23,461 711 125 5 . . 24,792 520 92 6 . . 14,882 350 68 8 . . 27,770 465 93 9 . . 17,196 338 61 10 . . 21,849 599 132 11 . . 16,681 384 86 12 . . 16,681 429 107 13 . . 20,045 380 81 14 . . 24,258 493 100 16 . . 20,067 520 122 17 . . 23,264 677 141 18 . . 20,441 ' 596 125 21 . . 17,159 284 72 22 . . 17,173 286 71 23 . . 23,985 329 85 25 . 130 • 40 Unknown. 135 25 349,643 8117 1738 A mshc >use 1813 The above tables have been prepared in order to furnish some idea of the healthy and unhealthy localities or wards in the city. 1 Less those from almshouse 508. 25 In my last year's report I presented similar tables, in which the one marked A, analogous to that in this report, enumerated eleven wards, where deaths from epidemic diseases had exceeded one hundred and fifty. The table A, given above for 1862, recapitulates only six of these wards, the first, second, seventh, fifteenth,- nineteenth and twentieth, to which I have added the twenty-fourth, where the deaths from zymotics were above one-hundred and fifty. The decline of deaths from zymotic or preventable diseases in the remain- ing five of the eleven wards, as presented in table A, 1861, viz : the fourth, eleventh, sixteenth, .seventeenth and eighteenth, may serve as an indication of the improved state of health in the city; nor have I any doubt, had it been practicable to have secured the deaths from zymotic diseases that have occurred in the government hospitals in our city, there being one in each of the above seven'wards, and those that have been brought into the city from the seat of war and other places and buried from these wards, and deducted them from the total of deaths properly belonging to these wards, the figures would stand considerably below one hundred and fifty in each, making such a table unnecessary and effecting a sensible change in the index that pointed out these wards as the most unhealthy. Table B embraces the remaining eighteen wards, together with the deaths from unknown wards. An average of the total of deaths in these eighteen sections—uniting the twenty-fifth and the unknown in one—will give 450 for each ward, while an average of the other seven wards makes the deaths 850 in each; thus showing the mortality to be nearly double. If we average the deaths from zymotic diseases in the seven wards, it returns 219 for each, and in the eighteen, the average will be 96 deaths. This may not be the most accurate test of the health of one ward over another, as there may exist causes modifying unfavourably the mortality in one section over that of another, foreign to its sanitary condition, yet enough is learned to enable us to discriminate between the healthy and unhealthy districts. The twenty-first, twenty-second and twenty-third wards, which are sub- urban, and to a large extent rural, furnished as high a rate of deaths from zymotic diseases as did several of the intramural wards with an equal popu- lation, and surrounded by far more adverse influences, incident to a residence in a crowded city. The cause of this mortality may be ascribed to the exist- ence of malaria, which is to be found in most of the rural districts adjaqent to our built up wards, where, during the autumnal season, there is abundance of decaying vegetable'matter, together with numerous small sluggish streams of water and stagnant pools, on the unimproved lots, that create disease of an endemic character. The fifth, eighth, ninth and twenty-third wards appear to have given only three deaths, from zymotic diseases, .in every thousand of their popu- lation ; the sixth, thirteenth, twenty-first andt twenty-second wards con- tributed four in every thousand, while the remaining sixteen of the twenty- four, furnished a still higher proportion. It may, therefore, be assumed with entire safety, that the above named wards present a very favourable character for health, in comparison with other sections of the city. Three of them, it may be observed, are classed as rural districts. The fact must not be overlooked that a large proportion of the deaths from this class of diseases, as a general rule, fall upon children and infants under five years of age. During the year under consideration, 1928 were 26 of this description, equal to 55 per cent, of the entire mortality. Of this number 784, or 22 per cent., were under one year of age. The principal diseases of which these children died, were cholera in- fantum, diphtheria, diarrhoea, scarlet fever, hooping-cough, measles and smallpox. Of this latter disease, there were in all 264 deaths, and of these 196, nearly two-thirds, were in children under ten years of age. This fact furnishes a strong appeal as to the necessity of an obligatory law for vaccination. The deaths from smallpox were most numerous in the first, second, and nineteenth wards. The deaths from diphtheria were distributed very generally through the city, except in the eleventh, sixteenth and twenty-first wards. The first two gave 6 and 5, but in the last named not a death is'recorded. Hooping-cough has prevailed to a greater extent during the year than usual. The first and the third quarters, the coldest and warmest seasons of the year, furnished the highest number of deaths. The mortality for the year reached 208. This is the largest number of deaths that has ever been recorded in this city for any single year. In 1839 they reached 191, and in 1842, 197. Every other year, with the exception of 1844 and 1846, when they rose to 101 and 104, the mortality was quite small. Measles has also been on the increase. The deaths having amounted to 109. Like diphtheria, the disease appears to have been very general through the city, if the deaths will serve as an index, but in the twenty- first, a rural ward, there is not a death recorded. There were four deaths in adults, three between 10 and 15 years, and the remainder under 10. I have intentionally omitted the tables heretofore constructed, which designate the different varieties of sporadic diseases, and separate them into classes, according to the particular organs or parts of the system involved. In making minute investigations these tables are certainly useful, but as the diseases by name are to be found alphabetically arranged in the general table of deaths marked No. VI., they can be referred to for general purposes, and subdivided by those who take a special interest in mortality statistics. In place of these classified divisions, I Offer the following table of the most fatal sporadic causes of death which have occurred during the year, as well as during the previous year 1861. Inserting those causes only that rate above fifty in 1862, and comparing them with those of 1861. 27 Deaths from Sporadic Causes in 1862, compared with those from similar causes in 1861. 1861. 1862. • 1861. 1862. Abscess . 47 52 Gangrene . , , . 46 55 Apoplexy . 162 176 Hemorrhage . . 72 82 Burns and scalds 81 81 Inflammation of Brain 305 365 Cancer (different varieties] I 189 181 M of Bronchi . 138 116 Casualties •122 135 (( of Lungs 681 749 Croup 304 258 M of Peritoneum 67 87 Congestion of Brain . 275 324 it of Stomach & " of Lungs 110 147 Bowels . 238 306 Convulsions 636 703 Inanition . . . 124 125 Consumption of the Lungs 1817 1949 Intemperance • # 29 82 Dropsy 284 236 Marasmus . 533 643 " of Brain 222 200 Mania-a-Potu . 32 57 " of Chest 63 55 Old Age . . 203 219 Disease of Brain 112 98 Palsy . 159 164 " of Heart 265 242 Scrofula . m 76 74 Debility 826 940 Stillborn . m 758 111 Drowned . 99 135 Unknown . m 104 97 Effusion of Brain 73 69 Gunshot Wounds 21 292 With few exceptions it will be observed that there is a degree of uni- formity in the deaths from various causes, and this order is not peculiar to these two periods, it may be seen in the mortality of one year with another, in our own bills of mortality, likewise in those of other cities for a succes- sion of years, and is only disturbed by an increase or decrease of the popu- lation. The most marked inequality in any one cause between these two years is presented in that of gun-shot wounds, which figures 292 in 1862, and only 21 in 1861, which at that time was considered an extraordinary number. It needs no argument to prove from whence came this remarkable increase. Another exception is that of debility, in which there is an increase of 110 in 1862, as also of consumption of the lungs, 132 ; intemperance, 53; inflammation of the lungs, 68 ; inflammation of the brain, 60 ; congestion of the brain, 40. Many of these may be traced directly to the record of causes for deaths among soldiers. The similarity, as shown in this table, between the causes of death for the two years is remarkable in apoplexy, burns and scalds, casualties, diseases of the brain, debility, effusion of brain, inanition, old age, palsy, scrofula, cancer, and unknown. The proportion of deaths by consumption to those of other diseases, has been one in 7|, and the percentage to all other deaths 12.71. To the population, estimating it at 600,000, they were as one in every 308. The excess of deaths is-with females. The most prevalent age for deaths from consumption is between twenty and thirty. It carried off in 1862 in this decennial 608 persons. More than one-half of all the deaths occurred between the ages of fifteen and forty. The first, second, fourth, seventh, tenth, fifteenth, nineteenth and twen- tieth wards are charged with 881 deaths from consumption, more than one- half the entire mortality, and these wards are with but one exception the tenth among the most unfavourable for health. The almshouse furnished 124 deaths, and the coloured population is set down for 149 deaths from consumption. The mortality assigned to debility, intemperance, mania-a-potu and in- 28 flammation of the brain, have all increased more or less, while on the other hand croup, dropsy (general and of the brain and chest), and disease of the heart have shown a moderate decline. There are to be found certain variations in the mortality record for 1862 from that of 1861, and even of earlier years, which depend in some measure upon the rebellion and its results, that are deserving of a passing uotice. They are as follows :— 1. The increase in the annual aggregate of deaths, without the preva- lence of any unueual epidemic. 2. The unusual mortality among males, as compared with those of females, equal to 23 per cent., and presenting an excess more than double the usual number. 3. The limited proportion of deaths of minors or children to those of adults, not over 14 per cent. The previous year they exceeded 64 per cent. 4. The astonishing increase in the deaths from gun-shot wounds. From 21 of the preceding year to 292 ! b. The increased mortality from typhoid fever, amounting to 65 W or 477 above those of 1861, equal to 170 per cent. The excess in all probability was from the deaths of soldiers. 6. The falling off in the deaths from scarlet fever, smallpox, and diph- theria, when compared with those for 1861, amounting in the aggregate to 1397, or 57 per cent. 7. The unusual annual increase in the deaths from consumption of the lungs and debility. The former amounting to 132 or 7 per cent., and the latter to 112 or 13 per cent. 8. The large number of the remains of soldiers brought into our city for interment, amounting to 1202, causing our rate of mortality to appear higher by 4 per cent, than belongs to it. 9. The organization of 22 government hospitals in our city, where there have been treated during the year 20,336 sick and wounded soldiers from the seat of war, thus swelling our list of city deaths—one for every death in these hospitals amounting to 700. Table VI. ,—Interments in the City of Philadelphia from December 28, 1861, to January 3, 1863. Division 1. Mortality classified according to Sex and Age. ' O SEX. AGES. O P < a DISEASES. BO a 0 n 5 0 0 0 IN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N O 0 CO 0 0 ex- 0 0 0 CO 0 0 0 0 CO 0 0 0 0 0 0 CO 0 CO 0 0 0 01 0 GO 0 0 0 e> OS d 0 0 0 d CM 0 0 Abortion . Abscess Albuminuria . An;emia . Aneurism Anthrax . Angina pectoris Amputation . Aphtlite . Apoplexy Asphyxia Asthma . Burns and scalds Cancer . " of the breas " " chest " " hear " " neck " " ovar " " stom " " uteru Casualties Croup Congestion " of the I " " I " " 1 " " 1 " 1 Convulsions . " puerpc Consumption of bo lu Carbuncle Compression of thf Cyanosis . Cirrhosi.s . t '. es . ich & bowels . s rain . owels eart . lver . ungs. ral . wels. ngs . brain 3 52 10 20 13 1 11 4 4 176 35 24 81 70 12 1 1 1 1 65 30 135 258 3 • 324 1 2 10 147 703 46 23 1949 5 11 40 15 2 30 8$ 12 11 's 4 2 93 18 »15 *3S 28 3i 116 137 2 169 1 1 5« 83 361 i6 961 3 6 25 9 1 22 5 8 2 1 3 *2 83 17 9 43 42 12 1 1 1 1 34 30 19 121 1 155 1 5 64 342 46 13 988 2 5 15 6 2 7 1 8 *2 2 6 16 4 25 2 h 36 134 2 103 53 339 *6 124 '2 25 1 1 4 4 1 2 3 14 1 34 2 . 1 7 119 116 1 40 324 3 5 169 2 2 15 1 3 2 9 3 2 28 2 3 1 1 31 1 77 42 395 2 45 i 39 1 2 1 i 7 2 3 53 47 17 115 3 27 1 2 2 1 2 1 27 3 9 133 49 1 15 119 1 36 1 1 2 1 1 1 9 • 2 9 33 1 28 12 28 1 32 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 7 1 9 3 6" 26 1 2 1 6 10 1 1 14 2 9 4 *3 4 127 9 1 2 1 2 9 1 9 3 2 29 1 23 1 1 7 11 24 3 60S 1 1 11 2 1 2 1 1 12 1 7 7 4 17 28 1 9 13 16 4 445 '2 1 9 1 "5 30 1 2 15 3 11 6 15 20 2 7 7 3 1 269 1 5 4 1 3 2 3 33 1. 6 ' 1 16 2 1 15 17 17 1 13 *6 4 1 172 1 1 3 6 2 1 3 5 39 "3 1 14 5 1 17 2 8 2 1 11 1 3 12 3 i 103 2 3 1 1 1 1 34 1 9 2 8 2 1 8 4 1 8 3 11 2 1 51 1 i i 10 1 . 3 3 • 2 2 1 1 8 1 1 41 9 8 13 1 10 2 167 5 19 22 66 12 1 1 1 60 30 . 92 5 1 105 1 2 9 54 40 43 12 1636 3 7 13 3 11 1 12 'i 2 4 9 30 5 59 4 'i 5 43 253 2 219 i 93 663 3 11 293 2 4 240 Table VI.—Interments in the City of Philadelphia during 1862—Continued. Division 1. Mortality classified according to Sex and Age. , SEX. AGES. 00 00 DISEASES. 00 ,_, d d 3 o d 8 d CM s ce a >. i o >o o o O 8 o o CO o o o o o o A o o B « o & * ~ e* «5 © >o o CM 8 o , o o CD o o CO o S3 Coucussion of the brain 13 11 2 4 2 i 2 1 2 3 l 1 2 7 6 Cholera asphyxia . t 1 l 1 1 " infantum 629 321 308 321 308 42S 170 31 629 " morbus 58 26 32 6 6 4 3 1 3 4 8 4 6 10 12 3 47 11 Cramps . 17 9 8 9 7 13 1 1 1 1 1 16 Caries of spine 6 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 4 " bones of 1 he face 1 1 1 1 1 Chicken-pox . 2 2 2 1 1 2 Contusion of chest 1 1 1 1 Colic 6 3 3 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 3 Coxalgia . 7 3 4 1 4 1 2 2 1 1 2 5 Constipation . 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Corvza 1 1 1 1 1 Coup de soleil . 24 22 2 1 1 4 • 7 7 i 4 23 1 Diphtheria 3-25 152 173 132 169 26 54 125 77 10 9 15 5 1 2 1 24 301 Dropsy 236 96 140 35 21 4 2 25 12 8 5 12 27 23 33 ■io 27 15 3 180 56 " abdominal 26 13 13 1 1 2 6 4 4 6 3 25 1 " of the brain 200 100 100 98 99 97 56 37 3 3 1 1 1 1 3 iri7 " " chest 65 34 21 10 4 1 5 5 3 6 4 4 13 6 ♦ 7 1 41 14 14 " heart 45 24 21 6 3 1 4 2 3 2 3 6 5 6 6 7 i 33 12 " " ovaries 4 4 1 2 1 4 " " stomach . 3 3 1 1 1 3 Disoaso of the brain 98 48 50 28 35 21 15 17 0 2 3 7 6 5 6 5 6 1 36 63 " bladder . 7 6 1 1 2 1 3 . 7 " " chest 5 5 1 i 2 1 6 " " heart 242 123 119 30 20 12 5 7 6 8 13 28 22 38 29 39 31 4 1 192 60 " " kidneys . 31 17 14 1 1 2 5 4 6 3 5 6 29 2 '• " lungs 20 10 10 2 7. 3 1 3 1 1 2 2 1 3 2 1 11 9 *" " liver 43 24 19 1 2 1 1 1 1 9 8 12 5 a 4H 3 " " spine 22 6 16 4 12 6 1 5 2 2 2 1 1 2 6 16 " " glands 1 1 1 1 " " stomach & bowels . 15 10 5 3 1 3 1 1 2 4 4 11 " " skin . t . " " throat 1 1 i 1 9 2 7 2 6 1 2 2 1 1 i 1 'i " " uterus 4 4 2 1 i- 4 417 302 11.") 65 52 61 23 14 6 13 133 54 3i 38 20 15 8 i i .. »«> 117 Debility . 940 487 403 225 181 330 25 25 10 7 9 4a 74 60 65 96 11a 69 i-z • • 1 Mi 4*.'C Table VI.—Interments in the City of Philadelphia during 1862—Coutinued. Division 1. Mortality classified according to Sex and Age. ►4 < o Eh SEX. AGES. 00 03 0 z S DISEASES. 13 a 0 . 3 is. e4 0 0 d 0 0 0 pH O O I-H © en 0 © 03 0 © © 0 © eo © 0 0 0 CO 0 © 0 © 0 © CO © 00 0 © 0 OS e © 00 0 © 0 OS d 0 8 0 © Dysentery Drowned . Diabetes . Dyspepsia Dislocation of spine Dysuria . Effusion of the brai "" " lung Epilepsy . Erysipelas Erapliyseraa of lunj Enlargement of the Exposure Empyema Ecthyma . Fever " bilious . " brain " congestive " camp " catarrh " eruptive " gastric . " hectic . " intermittent " puerperal " rheumatic " malignant • " remittent " scarlet . " typhoid " typhus . " yellow . Fracture of the arn " " . leg n s 'S lear iver pros i t .' ! ate gland 163 135 10 2 1 • 1 69 6 28 74 2 6 5 1 4 1 1 1 23 18 8 4 2 1 7 4 7 23 1 2 24 461 • 654 37 2 2 8 9S 118 5 1 43 2 19 42 1 2 4 1 3 i 15 11 7 4 1 1 3 2 4 i l 9 222 486 18 2 2 8 65 17 5 1 1 1 26 " 4 9 32 1 3 1 1 1 1 '8 7 1 i '4 2 3 23 1 15 239 168 19 43 47 1 32 1 25 'i 3 i 4 4 1 1 1 1 1 3 220 113 7 1 31 11 1 1 24 4 3 21 1 i 1 2 7 1 2 2 2 11 236 71 5 20 i 1 21 26 1 'i 1 2 2 *2 1 1 35 2 38 19 2 5 1 i 1 2 1 3 82 7 9 4 12 1 7 1 '2 1 1 6 228 36 3 3 20 1 2 1 1 3 1 1 2 2 101 31 5 1 17 'i 1 3 1 .1 1 2 "s 18 1 i 3 16 1 2 i 2 1 3 2 1 2 2 90 3 22 18 1 3 1 11 6 2 1 6 2 ' 2 3 1 1 3 8 2 5 3 255 5 1 30 4 1 7 5 1 1 1 5 3 2 2 13 1 *2 90 9 1 2 3 13 22 1 2 4 5 1 3 2 1 1 2 59 7 6 7 1 1 6 2 5 3 1 1 34 3 2 8 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 19 1 2 6 1 2 *2 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 4 1 2 1 2 1 89 77 9 1 1 13 1 25 28 2 4 4 1 1 17 7 7 3 4 2 5 23 1 2 10 5 470 25 2 2 7 74 58 1 1 i 56 5 3 46 i 1 *3 1 1 1 6 11 1 1 2 1 8 2 2 14 456 184 12 i Table VI.—Interments in the City of Philadelphia during 1862—Continued. Division 1. Mortality classified according to Sex and Age. DISEASES. SEX. . AGES. m OS ,_, as © r> © d s •4 OS a >. 00 •sS o o o o o o o o o © o o o e> o o E-i s m o &* rM IN «o ct «5 o o CO © © © © © © CO o OS © 3 «<1 Pi Fracture of the skull 11 9 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 4 1 •8 3 " " shoulder 1 1 ] 1 " " thigh . 6 6 1 1 3 1 1 5 1 " " pelvis . 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 ,, Fatty degeneration of heart . 3 3 1 1 1 3 " " kidneys 1 1 1 . .. 1 " liver . 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 65 27 28 6 9 3 4 3 • 2 1 2 6 1 5 6 9 8 5 40 15 5 4 1 2- 2 1 6 Gravel...... 2 2 1 1 2 14 8 6 3 3 1 7 3 11 3 4 3 1 2 1 1 2 1 1 3 Hooping-cough . . . . 208 105 103 105 ro:i 98 55 46 7 2 208 82 48 34 17 18 13 4 7 4 5 2 12 11 5 7 6 4 2 47 35 " of the lungs 21 11 10 1 2 1 1 1 4 9 1 2 1 1 IS 3 j •" kidneys 1 1 1 1 " stomach & bowels 8 5 3 2 2 3 1 h " uterus . 13 13 5 a 2 1 13 6 1 ' 5 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 2 1 " of brain . . 365 218 147 180 138 91 78 89 39 15 6 10 14 17 2 2 2 47 31 s " bronchi 116 67 59 37 29" 34 20 10 1 1 3 8 8 7 12 7 5 50 66 " breast . 1 1 1 1 " bladder 16 io 6 1 1 1 2 4 2 6 14 1 { " chest . 1 i i 1 1 " ear 1 i 1 1 " heart . 2S 19 9 3 1 1 3 9 6 2 2 4 • 1 21 4 | " kidneys 5 4 1 1 2 1 .. 1 5 " lungs . 719 413 336 241 2*1 212 115 117 22 6 10 64 46 44 33 41 27 12 267 482 " liver , 3S IS 20 2 2 4 6 12 7 4 2 1 36 >> " larvnx O.) S 14 6 9 4 5 5 1 2 3 1 1 7 15 " pentoueum . 87 41 46 13 8 6 2 4 1 5 4 20 18 7 9 6 3 3 66 21 " prostate gland 1 1 1 , 1 " pleura . 20 14 6 4 2 1 1 7 1 1 1 2 1 3 n; 4 " parotid glauds 5 2 3 1 3 1 2 1 1 l 4 1 " pharvnx 1 1 1 1 1 1 | " stomach & bowabj 306 148 158 72 73 61 32 24 15 6 4 34 3i 31 25 13 5 .. 161 115 1 Table VI.—Interments in the City of Philadelphia during 1862—Continued. Division 1. Mortality classified according to Sex and Age. -<< O Eh SEX. AGES. a a 00 OS 0 DISEASES. CD "a a « fa pa S Is' 0 0 © 0 0 10 0 0 d CM O O © ■ CO 0 © . 00 .§ s O o o o o o o o o o o o 5 o H PX OS Px pa » u *** rH CM »o © K5 © CM © CO © © o © © © CO o OS s 0 Ht) s 74 44 30 39 27- 16 15 15 11 3 6 4 1 2 1 8 66 264 133 131 105 108 52 44 66 34 3 14 22 16 7 6 61 213 Softening of the brain 43 26 17 3 2 2 1 2 2 10 5 8 6 6 2 38 5 " " heart 1 1 1 .. .. 1 711 iii 297 414 297 711 711 21 13 8 12 4 11 4 1 1 2 1 1 16 Suicide 14 11 3 1 3 7 3 14 13 8 6 3 6 6 1 2 1 2 2 8 Stricture of the oesophagus 1 1 1 1 " •' pylorus 1 1 1 1 " " glottis . 1 1 1 1 1 ' 3 3 3 1 2 3 Suffocating catarrh 1 1 i 1 1 1 i 1 5 5 3 2 Tumours . 21 2 19 1 1 5 4 3 3 3 2 ?<» 1 Tympanitis 2 1 1 1 1 •> 27 ly 8 11 6 4 1 5 3 4 3 2 2 1 1 1 10 17 41 23 IS 23 18 20 20 i 41 1'uknoiru 97 71 26 15 14 22 3 l 1 1 1 32 12 9 2 6 6 3 68 •'ii j Ulceration 6 2 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 ■> " of the bowels 21 13 8 2 4 1 2 i 1 1 5 7 2 1 15 6 " «« bladder 1 1 1 1 " " larynx 1 1 1 1 " " stomach 3 2 1 2 1 l 1 1 2 " " throat 4 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 7 6 1 3 2 1 1 7 Wounds .... 1 3 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 " gunshot 292 292 42 l 41 192 40 14 3 1 2>J 42 1 a 1 2 1 2 1 l 1 3 Total . 115097 8315 6782 4266 3772 3661 1410 1555 679 233 500 1928 1408 1046 843 777 666 316 68 6 1 1 705, . i*i> Table VI.—Interments in the City of Philadelphia during 1862—Continued. Division 2. Mortality classified according to Colour, Nativity, and Wards. 1 H a o W S3 < 0 . £g Nativity. WARDS. SB . M '2 '2 3 i 13 23 DISEASES. O 5» a to g 0 0 Is 0 0 a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 s 9 10 11 13 13 14 15 16 17 18 1 3 1 9 4 1 2 2 2 1 5 3 1 14 10 1 *6 24 i 69 i 19 1 1 1 8 1 1 2 3 1 3 17 41 3 8 78 6 2 125 3 1 20 3 1 9 3 4 1 1 .2 4 13 10 1 11 37 3 2 101 1 1 21 1 5 1 2 1 1 6 9 6 1 9 3 1 27 22 3 i 1 1 3 4 5 6 10 38 1 2 33 1 1 9 1 1 1 1 3 4 9 8 3 20 1 1 33 1 3 • • 24 9 2 2 2 17 1 1 7 10 s 2 G 9 13 1 1 2*; 4 1 198 2 25 1 i '2 5 5 '3 3 ii Abortion . . • . Abscess . . . Albuminuria Ana?niia Aneurism . Anthrax Angina pectoris Amputation Aphtha: Apoplexy . ' . Asphyxia . Asthma Burns and scalds Cancer " of the breast " " chest " " heart " " neck " " ovarie " " stomac " " uterus Casualties . Croup Congestion * " of the br bo " he li? " " lu Convulsions " puerper Consumption of bo'H " lunj Carbuncle . Compression of the Cyanosis . . Cirrhosi.s . 3 h& bowels iin . wels art . er . QgS . al '. ; els . 5s • ■ arain '4 2 '2 i io '3 9 '7 2 '2 '7 i '7 2 '2 *2 i '5 i 3 1 '3 2 2 4 16 i 6 36 i 149 '2 2 1 3 i i i 1 2 1 2 1 L4 9 10 6 6 1 1 17 i 1 3 30 6 15 4 6 3 4 80 32 10 62 34 .10 1 1 1 27 15 67 249 3 259 1 2 2 121 673 22 15 1127 4 40 9 14 2 4 7 1 5 82 2 14 13 25 2 1 32 13 55 4 52 6 23 18 21 6 630 1 4 *4 8 2 1 2 i 14 1 6 11 6 2 13 6 i3 2 3 12 3 2 192 i '2 2 '2 2 11 3 3 11 6 2 14 19 31 13 40 3 1 125 1 1 4 1 3 1 2 1 10 5 6 4 1 4 11 18 25 '5 48 2 2 108 3 1 2 1 i 3 1 1 4 1 1 1 2 1 2 10 15 1 . 2 2S 2 1 55 1 1 V 2 1 4 2 3 5 3 12 9 1 21 °6 47 1 1 92 6 3 2 2 4 '<3 2 1 1 2 6 1 6 21 77 2 3 3 !! i 2 1 1 4 7 1 2 2> 5 ..! 3 1 .. 1: 8 8 ll 8 7 10 io 8 7 7 25 30 1 4 ..1 2 41 118 , 1 3 •J.! 3 1 1 7 1 1 1 3 1 7 6 11 8 13 1 66 1 2 3 1 4 2 5 2 3 3 1 3 4 4 3 12 2 1 45 i 3 i 1 1 6 1 1" 3 3 1 1 1 3 6 6 1 ■ 4 19 3 2 95 1 2 1 1 1 1 7 1 i 5 4 13 6 3 21 'i 41 2 1 2 1 7 *2 4 4 6 10 6 24 1 46 1 i 1 2 i 2 1 2 1 2 4 1 1 1 3 9 1 9 1 1 19 46 2 2 2 7 '4 5 4 1 5 S *8 1 4 25 ■1 76 2 1 1 1 6 "5 3 1 6 1 9 13 17 '7 41 2 1 117 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 2 ■ 2 1 3 3 1 5 10 1 8 1 7 29 3 2 54 1 2 1 i 9 2 3 1 3 8 1 . 2 19 19 *8 38 2 72 1 1 Table VI.—Interments in the City of PJiiladelpJiia during 1862—Continued. Division 2. Mortality classified according to Colour, Natirity, and Wards. DISEASES. M a o ta a as f N.vnvn a £ .5? •Y. a o a 3 WARDS. 1G 20 25 3" i 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 18 19 .. 22 23 z\ ■j « K am c a X* < P. o & !x - 1 .. ■ 1 1 Concussion of the brain . 1 1 1 5 1) 2 ..1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 Cholera asphyxia 1 ll .. " infantum 2 20 10 623 5 i 64 37 26 22 11 i.3 41 16 9 17 20 19 14 j 18 30 25 32 18 64 43 13 13 Hi 28 12 8 " morbus . . . 3 3 33 21 4 4I 7 2 3 2 3 2 1 3 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 5 1 1 1 2 1 1 Cramps..... 16 1 ..1 .. 2 2 1 3 3 3 2 ,, Caries of spine . 4 1 1 Ii •• 1 1 1 1 1 .. " bones of the face 1 1 Chicken-pox . . . . 2 1 .. 1 Contusion of chest . i 1 Colic...... 4 2 1 1 1 2 Coxalgia..... 2 3 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 Constipation . . . . ... 1 1 1 1 Coryza..... 1 1 Coup de soleil .... 3 4 17 3 3 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 3 1 1 .. Diphtheria • . . 6 16 299 13 13 11 16 i VL 13 9 15 11 12 12 6 14 10 19 22 5 9 12 26 15 13 20 12 :, 3 Dropsy ..... 5 21 6 154 73 9 12 14 5 11 7 6 11 7 5 11 13 5 9 14 8 11 14 11 7 13 7 3 6 is l 2 abdominal . 10 16 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 3 " of the brain . , 3 9 3 194 3 3 11 11 2 5 .4 3 5 5 10 4 7 10 7 17 6 10 11 16 17 6 5 9 13 2 2 " •' chest 2 1 42 12 1 1 4 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 3 4 5 2 4 6 5 2 1 1 3 1 «' heart 2 4 5 31 11 3 3 1 4 2 2 2 i 1 1 3 1 1 1 3 1 2 3 1 1 1 1 3 1 '• " ovaries 4 1 l 1 1 " " stomach . 2 i 1 1 .. 1 Disease of the brain . , i 3 4 80- 15 3 3 3 1 3 4 3 l 5 3 3 4 3 3 5 22 2 2 1 2 10 2 1 1 6 1 " " bladder . i 2 4 1 1 .* 1 *. 1 1 1 1 1 " " chest 2 3 2 l 1 1 ' " heart 4 is 18 151 72 19 io 11 8 10 10 6 10 8 3 14 7 4 14 i3 19 7 7 4 14 11 6 9 7 11 1 " " kidneys . 3 3 1 13 14 4 2 .. 3 1 ..' 1 3 1 1 2; 2 1 4 2 1 6 " " lungs 1 2 1 13 6 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 4 1 1 * 1 .. 2 " " liver 2 14 28 1 4 1 1 1 2 .. 1 2 1 3 2 3 2 5 1 3 6 2 1 " " spine i 2 20 2 2 1 .. 3 1 2 1 i 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 ' 1 " " glands 1 ...... 1 " " Mo'rh & bowels 7 S1 .. 1 .. 1 1 1 2 3 2 1 .. 1 2 " " skin . 1 •• 1 " " throat 9 .. . . .., 1 1 1, 1 1 2 1 1 " " uterus i 2 1 1 .. 1 1 1 1 Dinrrhiva . . . . 39 ia 14 243 65 109 15 24 « ii !) 5 17| 5 6 15 s 6 4 2 1 ii- 22 14 23 39 15 9 ■> 10 1" fl 1 | Debility . ... 37 74 14 617 242 81 74 45 36 80 4b 21 49 25 19 26 27 21 16 35 41 32 is 51 65 31 18 23 11 61 10 11 Table VI.—Interments in the City of Philadelphia during 1862—Continued. Division 2. Mortality classified according to Colour, Nativity, and Wards. H D O 3 E -< a. go t-03 H X a 0 O Nativity. WARDS. so . H *J 3 3 1 i '2 2 1 DISEASES. el Botj a O a 0 a. a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 7 6 1 i 1 2 i 2 4 17 17 3 18 19 30 31 3 3 2 1 1 6 17 22 23 34 14 5 1 3 "e 12 2 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 38 41 1 35 '5 i 1 'i 1 '2 8 ■ • Dysentery . Drowned . Diabetes . • , • Dyspepsia . Dislocation of spine Dysuria Ettusion of the brain " " lungs Epilepsy . Erysipelas. Emphysema of lungs Enlargement of heart " liver " prost Exposure . Empyemia Ecthyma . Fever . " bilious " brain " congestive " camp " catarrh . " eruptive . " gastric " hectic " intermittent " puerperal " rheumatic " malignant " remittent " scarlet " typhoid- . " typhus . " yellow Fracture of the arm " " leg ite gland . 1 '2 *3 8 'i i '7 3 5 6 1 "3 1 1 3 i i i 7 16 1 i 6 12 'h 2 3 'i 1 i i 3 17 68 1 103 71 9 1 1 1 50 6 17 67 1 3 3 *3 1 1 1 12 17 3 4 2 1 5 3 4 1 1 IS 440 392 22 *2 1 38 36 1 1 3 7 9 1 2 2 1 8 3 2 1 2 16 *3 3 127 15 2 7 22 28 7 4 8 1 3 1 2 1 1 3 18 135 17 9 3 7 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 30 34 1 12 6 4 1 5 1 1 6 1 30 34 4 2 12 4 i 1 1 2 2 1 22 11 3 5 10 1 1 1 1 19 17 i 2 12 2 i 2 1 1 -1 ii 14 2 3 4 2 1 T 1 1 9 12 22 C| 6 ] 2 4 1 1 2 1 36 45 1 3 3 i 1 3 4 1 '2 2 1 19 10 1 1 2 2 4 1 i 2 1 10 7 1 4 5 2 1 3 3 1 1 i 1 13 48 1 1 2 7 4 2 2 X 1 7 11 i i 5 1 2 1 2 1 'i 9 41 1 2 1 3 1 2 2 1 15 18 3 4 2 *2 2 2 23 13 7 2 '2 *4 1 3 1 1 2 44 25 3 1 4 5 1 1 1 5 1 1 i 12 25 7 5 1 1 1 3 1 4 1 2 19 20 2 1 10 6 1 1 3 4 2 2 1 1 2 '2 1 22 51 8 6 3 1 1 1 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 20 41 4 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 8 4 3 'i 1 1 1 '2 Taijle VI.—Interments in the City of Philadelphia during 1862—Continued. Division 2. Mortality classified according to Colour, Nativity, and Wards. o to °P3 * Nativity. -- WARDS DISEASES. a x . r?S X "8* ~ ci to o a 1 3 3 4 ' 5 G 7 8 9 10 11 13 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 31 22 23 24 25 *V < £* O o £« o a 1| 1 2 1 3 .. 1 C" Fractnre of skull 1 4 5 2 ll 1 " shonldoi .. 1 ..' .. 1 thigh 3 1 2 1 .. 1 1 1 1 1 " pelvis 1 1 Fistula 2 1 1 Fatty degeneration of heart . 2 1 1 1 1 " " kidneys 1 1 1 " " liver 1 1 1 J ..1 1 Gangrene..... 5 4 1 36 10 9 3 1 1 2 4 2 1 4 .. 6 1 4 1 2 2 1 3 3 1 4 1 6 i Gout . 1 3 2 1 1 i 1 . 1 (i ravel 2 1 1 Hernia 1 S 6 2 2 1 ..: i: 3 i 1 1 1 Hydrophobia . 4 l 1 1 1 Hooping-cough . 19 7 204 1 3 4 12 7 10 12 7 16 • 10 3 8 3 2 7 Jl 10 2 15 7 15 18 5 7 3 6 i Hemorrhage 1 1 2 60 27 6 9 J 2 3 1 .. 5 3 2 4 2 1 4 2 11 3 10 1 5 2 1 1 1 3 " of lungs 1 1 16 5 3 1 1 .. 2 2 1 3 3 1 1 1 1 " kidneys 1 1 stomach & bowels i 6 2 1 2 1 .. 1 1 1 " uterus 1 7 6 i i 1 1 1 1 1 i 3 1 Inflammation . . . . 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 " brain • . 9 15 7 334 Hi 15 si 26 17 20 11 8 19 14 11 8 13 9 6 7 26 16 2i I 12 21 12 4 11 9 20 •> 6 " bronchi 3 12 1 N» 21 6 8 4 3, 0 6 6 9 9 6 2 4 3 3 6 6 5 7 2 3 5 4 4 1 5 breast . 1 1 1 1 " bladder 1 2 1 .") f| 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 3 " chest . 1 1 " ear 1 1 " heart . 1 17 9 2 1 1 3 2 J 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 2 1 2 1 2 .. 1 " kidneys 1 1 3 1 •• 1 1 3 .. " lungs . 20 49 in 538 113 48 62 41 271 30 36 16| 49 30 19 36 10 15 13 12 3d 2> 25 ss 4'i 28 21 21 14 62 7 2 " liver . 1 1 l 111 17 2 3 2 1 .. 13 3 1 1 2 3 1 3 2 3 1 • 1 1 2 2 ' 1 " larvnx ' 3 16 3 3 2 1 .. 1 .. 2 .. 1 i 4 1 2 0 1 4 " jieritonenm . ' . 6 4 40 36 11 11 1 4 4 4 2 5 3 5 10 1 l 5 2 5 1 3 3 4 5 1 *7 , .. " prostate gland , 1 1 " pleura . 3 1 13 6 2 1 2 3i 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 .. " parotid glands . 1 4 1 1 ■• 2 1 1 1 .. ** pharvux 1| 1 .. " stonmcl & bowels 7 ii ii 2191 69 18 *t 10 9 171 13 6 22 6 6 10 8 6 7 7 12 13 17 18 23 1 = s 6 7 19 i 3 Table VI.—Interments in the City of Philadelphia during 1862—Continued. Division 2. Mortality classified according to Colour, Nativity, and Wards. 1 . H D O a s < i. So 1-E-X fc> 0 Nativity. WARBS. X £* e i '2 1 i 1 1 DISEASES. "Si 1 0 0 a M 0 1 2 3 4 5 1 G 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 8 1 1 11 2 5 1 1 13 1 7 1 1 15 1 2 1 1 1 32 7 3 1 11 2 1 9 i 1 2 16 3 1 1 1 2 7 1 6 1 17 1 4 1 1 4 51 3 2 6 1 1 2 i 2 18 1 '2 49 1 1 1 1 1 1 12 1 1 4 1 1 19 13 '2 3 1 62 9 2 2 1 10 2 5 1 1 1 20 1 3 1 1 1 27 4 3 1 1 18 8 1 1 31 1 15 2 2 33 3 2 ]'.i 1 1 1 7 1 23 1 1 1 ii 9 2 2 4 3 1 1 1 24 21 1 2 9 5 8 2 14 1 2 1 11 11 1 2 25 1 i 1 '2 1 1 1 4 Inflammation of " Inanition . Insanity Jaundice . Intemperance an Icterus Leucof ythemia . Marasmus . Measles Mania a potu Malformation . Metastasis . Melanosis . Neuralgia . Neglect Neurosis . Necrosis Old age Obstruction of tl Overdose of eth Ossification 6f t CEdema of the g Palsy . Pyicmia Purpura Poisouiug . Rupia . Rheumatism Rupture " of thet " " t spine splee liros tonsi uterv vein: d ex le bo le he ao ottis tern lorta n . t . Is . is . 10SU wels art rta 9 re . io i 31 1 6 i i 5 5 i i 5 io 29 2 i i *9 '3 i 5 1 i i 2 1 1 'e i 6 1 1 1 2 1 93 6 18 4 5 1 592 104 19 20 1 2 9 1 4 2 112 19 *3 3 106 11 1 5 io 1 8 11 1 28 1 27 1 99 5 1 4 i 45 7 22 1 1 67 23 4 11 1 8 1 1 ih 11 2 1 1 1 1 10 4 4 1 41 8 8 1 2 12 1 11 1 1 11 i si 7 1 1 13 1 2 9 1 1 1 1 4 1 13 17 6 1 6 1 1 1 5 1 17 30 3 1 6 6 1 1 1 *8 1 21 2 4 2 l| 1 9 1 1 i 12 4 1 1 5 1 4 1 1 1 4 1 2 1 1 "6 5 1 1 6 1 7 3 1 1 2 1 1 4 0 i 20 4 2 1 1 S 3 1 1 1 .2 1 S 3 1 9 1 i 1 1 12 1 2 9 2 1 1 1 21 1 1 7 2 1 1 2 2 i ii 8 2 4 1 ■ 7 "I X v-1 5 1 1 1 15 11 2 3 2 1 1 6 8 1 1 3 7 1 .. 5 1 8, 10 ■ l| 1 ..1 1 1 2 .. 1 1 1 DISEASES. Scrofula Smallpox . Softening of the brain " " heart Stillborn . Syphilis Suicide Sntfucatiou Stricture of oesophagus " pyloris . " glottis Strangulation . Suffocating catarrh . Syncope Scurvy Tumours . Tympanitis Tetanus . Teething , Unknown . Ulceration . " of the bowels " " bladder " " larynx " " stomach " " throat Violence . Wounds " gunshot Worms Table VI.—Interments in the City of Philadelphia during 1862—Concluded. Division 2. Mortality classified according to Colour, Nativity, and Wards. Total . Total number of deaths r Nativity. 57 236 29 1 709 14 6 9 1 3 1 1 2 11 21 41 41 2 8 1 1 3 3 2 1 162 3 11059 2762 1276 WARDS. 4' 71 2 39 25! 12 3 3' 1 ..I ..I .. 66; 40 25 V ..' .. 1 1 1 6 7 3 1 6, 2 31' 2S 2 .. 1 .. 1 .. 3 9 4 6 4 12 ., .. 1 1: 17 17 . 11 .. 10371827 491 711520 350 13 14 15 1G 17 16 , 22 'i I 'i l 21 J9I3S4I429 -,:■<> 1 1*2 193 S'9 1 i 520 18 30 52 2 .. ll .. 3; 2 8, 2 3 4 .. 1 1 .. 6 19 21 22 1 ' 1 15 j 12 1 11 677 |y16 i?0'2 7;W 2:~\ 2S6 '329 116> 13" l:'.5 >orted for 1S62 bite Coloured Total Males Females Total From which deduct stillborn 14.376 721 8,315 6,7t2 15,097 15,097 711 14,386 The number of male adults . .....4,049 • " " female adults.......3,010 " " male children.......4,266 " " female children......3,772 Deduct stillborn males " " females 414 297 15,097 711 14,386 In Twenty-fourth Ward d.-dnrt deaths In Philadelphia Almshouse, 608. Met death's in Twenty-fourth Ward, 660.