Deaths in Philadelphia during the months of January, February and
March, (up to March 23cL) Reported by Mr. James Aitken
Meigs, Student of Medicine.
(To be continued monthly.)
January. February. March. Total. ■
Diseases.	Adults. Chil. jAdults. Chil. Adults. Chil. Ad.| Clf
Abscess,	0	11	00	011
“ of liver,	1	00	00	010
££	lungs	1	0’1	11	031
££	neck,	0	0	0	1	0	102
££	pleura,	0	10	00	001
Anaemia,	0	00	10	001
Angina Pectoris,	0	02	10	021
Apoplexy,	7	06	07	1 20	1
Aphthae,	0	00	00	101
Asphyxia,	0	00	20	103
Asthma,	0	00	01	010
Burns and scalds,	3	23	20	266
Cachexia,	1	00	01	020
Cancer,	3	00	01	O4o
a	of breast,	1	00	01	O2o
££	liver,	0	01	00	010
££	pylorus,	1	00	00	010
££	stomach,	2	01	00	O3o
££	uterus,	4	00	01	050
Casuality,	4	11	13	183
Child-bed,	1	00	01	O2o
Cholera infantum,	0	00	10	203
££	morbus,	1	00	00	010
Compression of brain,	0	10	00	001
Congestion of brain,	3	30	25	287
“	heart,	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
££	lungs,	1	6	2	1	1	4411
Convulsions,	2	28	0	26	0	29	2	83
££ puerperal,	0	00	10	001
Croup,	0	17	0	17	0	7	0	41
Cyanosis,	0	30	10	004
Debility,	3	5	4	5	5	8	12	18
Diarrhoea,	1	32	35	389
Disease of brain,	t 211	2	4	1	45	19.
££	bowels	and stomach, 0	1	0	0	0	1	0	2
“	heart,	9	3	4	0	5	7	18	10
£‘	kidneys,	0	01	00	010
££	liver,	1	02	11	142
££	lungs,	1	11	2 0	12	4
<£	prostate gland,	1	0 0	0 0	0 1	0
££	spine,	0	00	00	101
Dropsy,	14	2	1	3	7	1 22	6
££ of abdomen,	1	12	02	152
. £1	breast,	4	4 3	1 1	3 8	8
££	head,	1	15 0	14 1	27 2	56
££	heart,	0	00	00	202
Drowning,	3	0	1	0	3	0	7	0
January. February. March. Total.
Diseases.	Adults. Chil. Adults. Chil. Adults. Chil. Ad. Ch.
Dysentery,	3	6	5	1	3	41111
Dysmenorrhcea,	0	10	00	001
Dyspepsia,	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Effusion on brain,	0	50	3	0	3011
“ lungs,	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	1
Enlargement	of heart,	0	03	11	041
“	liver,	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	2
{{	ovary,	1	00	00	010
Epilepsy,	1	1	1	0	0	2	2	3
Erysipelas,	,1	30	43	148
Exposure,	0	10	00	001
Fever,	1	2	0	0	2	1	3	3
11	bilious,	1	10	10	3	15
“	catarrhal,	0	10	00	001
tc	congestive,	0	00	11	011
“	continued,	0	00	01	010
“	hectic,	0	00	20	002
“	intermittent,	0	10	00	001
11	nervous,	0	00	01	010
li	puerperal,	0	03	14	071
<c	remittent,	3	10	00	132
“	scarlet,	2	54 1	34	1	49 4 137
“	typhoid,	6	1 5	0	4	3 15	4
“	typhus,	4	25	0	3	3125
Fracture of	skull,	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Gangrene,	0	01	00	010
Hemorrhage,	0	10	00	102
u	from	aorta,	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
“	(l	bowels,	0	10	11	012
“	“ lungs,	2	1	0	0	3	1	5	2
“	a	uterus,	0	01	00	010
Icterus,	0	00	10	102
Ileus,	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Inanition,	1	20	10	215
Inflam, of	brain,	2	15	3	7	3	16	8	38
il	breast,	0	2	1	0	1	2	2	4
“	bronchi,	4	26	5	14	3	12	12	52
“	fauces,	0	10	00	102
“	heart,	0	0	2	0	1	2	3	2
“	kidneys,	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
“	larynx,	1	10	00	112
• •	“ liver,	4	0	1*	03	080
“	lungs,	12	25	8	24	21	21 41	70
“	peritoneum,	6	2	1	3	5	r 2 12	7
“	pleura,	1	0	2	0	0	030
“	salivary	glands	1	00	00	010
stomach and bowels, 7	5	7	3	7	7 21	15
trachea,	0	00	00	101
a	uterus,	0	00	01	010
Influenza,	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Intemperance and exposure.	3	0	3	0	5	0	11	0
Ischuria,	0	0	0	0'0	1	0	1
Lupus Exedens,	0	00	01	010
Malformation,	0	1	0	2	II	0	003
January. February. March. Total.
Diseases.	AduJts. Chil. Adults, chil. Adults. Chil. Ad. Ch.
Malformation of heart,	0	00	10	102
l:	throat,	0	00	10	001
Mania-a-potu,	4	0	2	0	3	1 9	1
Marasmus,	2	3	0	6	3	5514
Measles,	0	3	0	3	0	120	18
Mortification,	1	00	00	010
Mortification of leg,	0	00	01	010
11	lungs,	1	00	00	010
Neuralgia,	1	00	00	111
Obstruction of boWels,	0	00	00	101
(Edema of lungs,	0	00	00	101
Old age,	11	0 10	0 16	0 37	0
Ossification of heart,	0	10	00	001
“ valves of heart, 0	01	00	010
Palsy,	8	0 3	1 4	015	1
!C of brain,	0	00	10	00l
tl lungs,	0	00	01	010
Parotitis,	1	00	10	011
Pertussis,	0	2	0	2	0	8012
Phthisis pulmonalis,	63	12 49	12 57	13 169 37
Phlebitis,	1	0	0	0	1	0	2’0
Pneumothorax,	0	00	01	010
Poisoning,	0	01	01	020
Prolapsus ani,	0	10	01	112
Purpura,	0	10	00	001
Rheumatism,	2	01	00	030
Scrofula,	1	30	1	0	7111
Small pox,	0	21	20	115
Softening of brain,	0	10	01	011
“	stomach,	0	00	00	101
Stillborn,	0	34	0	27	0	39	0	100
Strangulation,	0	1	0	0	0	00	1<
Suicide,	1	01	01	030
Syncope,	0	01	00	010
Tabes mesenterica,	0	10	00	001
Teething,	0	10	20	003
Tuberculosis,	2	00	01	131
Tumor,	0	01	00	010
“ of brain,	0	00	01	010
Ulceration of bowels,	2	00	00	020
Ulcered sore throat,	0	00	00	2	0	2-
Unknown,	2	9	1	4	0113	24
Violence,	0	10	00	001
Wounds,	2 oo'oo 020
651 971
Total,..............................................1,622
Adults.	Children.
January,................................... 253	350
February,.................................. 173	262
March,..................................... 225	359
"65?	971
Of the foregoing the ages were as follows :—
Under 1 year,	-	-	-	451
From 1	to -	2,	162
2	-	-	5,	-	-	195
5	-	-	io,	-	-	97
10	-	-	15,	-	-	22	'
15	-	-	20,	-	-	43
20	-	-	30,	-	-	155
30	-	-	40,	-	-	134
40	-	-	50,	-	-	111
50	-	-	60,	-	-	83
60	-	-	70,	-	-	59
70	-	-	80,	-	-	66
80	-	-	90,	-	-	39
90	-	-	100,	-	.	4
100	-	-	110,	-	-	1
1622
Included in this number, are 94 from the Almshouse, 132 people of color,
and 15 from the surrounding country.