TABLE 35.-SHOWING DEATHS FROM TYPHOID FEVER AND DEATHS PER 10,000
INHABITANTS FROM TYPHOID FEVER IN THE COUNTIES OF NEW JERSEY

FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1906, ALSO CHART SHOWING DEATHS
FROM TYPHOID FEVER PER 10,000 INHABITANTS IN THE COUNTIES OF
NEW JERSEY FOR SAME PERIOD.

CHART SHOWING DEATHS FROM TYPHOID FEVER IN NEW JERSEY, PER 10,000 POPULATION. FOR TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS.

Whooping Cough. Three hundred and eighty-eight deaths from whooping cough were reported during the year, or 1.77 per 10,000 inhabitants. These figures show a greater mortality during the past year from this disease than has been recorded since the year 1894, when the death-rate from whooping cough in the State was 2.07 per 10,000 of the population. Official sanitary precautions have thus far had little, if any, influence in restricting the spread of this disease, for, like measles, it is often unrecognized in its early stages, and the infection is spread before the true nature of the cough is known, and moreover, like certain other minor infectious diseases, it is treated with indifference by many parents, and the isolation of the patients during the long period of infectiousness is difficult to maintain, and the prevailing public sentiment, based on the small proportion of fatalities compared with the large number of cases, does not sustain rigid isolation restrictions.

TABLE 36.-SHOWING DEATHS IN NEW JERSEY FROM WHOOPING COUGH, WITH AGES OF DECEDENTS, FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1906.

CHART SHOWING DEATHS FROM WHOOPING COUGH IN NEW JERSEY, PER 10,000 POPULATION, FOR THE TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1906.

2.60

2.40

2.20

2.00

1.80

1.60

1.40

1.20

1.00

.80

.60 .40

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Scarlet Fever. The average number of deaths from scarlet fever in New Jersey during the past twenty-eight years has been 413, and during the fifteen years, 1879-1892, the average number was 572. During the year ending December 31st, 1906, this disease caused 193 deaths, and the average for the past thirteen years has been 230. This decided diminution in the mortality from this disease, which has continued with very little variation since 1892, has been generally attributed to a change in type which this affection has assumed, and which has not only diminished the fatalities, but has also diminished the prevalence of the disease.

YEAR

DEATHS

FROM

SCARLET FEVER

PER 10,000 POP.

10.0 0

9.00

8.00

7.00

6.00

5.00

4.00

3.00

2.00

1.00

CHART SHOWING DEATHS FROM SCARLET FEVER IN NEW JERSEY, PER 10,000 POPULATION, FOR TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS.

" 0.00

Measles. The number of deaths reported as having been caused by measles was 203, and the average number for the past twenty-eight years has been 156. The records show that epidemics of measles have occurred with much regularity, and that no locality has escaped the infection. The measures which are successful in preventing the spread of certain other infectious diseases, for example, scarlet fever, are unavailing in dealing with measles, for the disease is communicable before the rash appears, and during the time from the inception of the disease until the appearance of the eruption, especially in the first cases, the infectious nature of the affection escapes recognition, and the seed for an epidemic has thus been planted before any isolation restrictions are resorted to. This history is repeated in every town, and frequently the disease has become well established before any physician is called to see a case, and before the character of the prevailing malady has been made known. The growing opinion among health officers is that measles is transmitted from patient to patient only, and that no disinfection of apartments, clothing, &c., will avail to prevent the spread of this disease; that the infective organism is short-lived, and that the isolation of cases, especially the first case, at the very beginning of the disease, is the most effective measure which can be employed to restrict the spread of the infection.

911

TABLE 37.-SHOWING DEATHS IN NEW JERSEY FROM MEASLES, WITH AGE AT DEATH, FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1906.

CHART SHOWING DEATHS IN NEW JERSEY FROM MEASLES, PER 10,000 POPULATION, FOR TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1906.

Malarial Diseases. The following table and chart show the mortality in New Jersey from malarial affections for the twentyeight years, 1879-1906: