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and protection of the county, we as directors of San Joaquin County Medical Society are vitally interested in said organization. We have watched carefully the workings and the organization and the plan, and we wish to commend you and your organization and Doctor Sippy upon the efficiency with which your plan is working. We have taken careful note of the decrease in contagious diseases throughout the county and particularly noticed the decrease in the death rate in surrounding country. These two factors are to be especially commended.

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We are particularly anxious that you should continue on in your splendid work, and we wish to commend you and the personnel of your body, and if any time we can be of any assistance to you we will do our utmost to render you service.

Dr. J. J. SIPPY,

[Signed by Members of the Board of Directors.]

Director San Joaquin County Health Unit, Stockton, Calif. DEAR DOCTOR: The Central California District Dental Society, realizing the imperative necessity of a sustained educational campaign along dental lines, and through daily contact with the mouths of the community being in a position to appreciate the work being done by your dental department, have passed the following resolutions and ordered a copy sent to your office:

Whereas the San Joaquin District Health Unit has proven the need of such a unit and established the fact that the health of the community can be taken care of to better advantage, as well as more economically, under the unit system; and

Whereas the said health unit has a department of dentistry which is proving very popular with the general public; and

Whereas as dentists we daily come in contact with people suffering from disease and pain due to ignorance and neglect and being fully convinced that, as the mouth is the gateway to the body, * it is vitally essential that people should be taught the value of a clean, healthy mouth: Therefore be it

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Resolved, That the members of the Central California District Dental Society do hereby give the indorsement of and promise their cooperation to the San Joaquin County Health Unit in its work, particularly in the field of dentistry.

[Signed by Members of the Committee on Resolutions.]

COURT DECISION ON EXECUTION OF VENEREAL-DISEASE ISOLATION ORDER.

The Supreme Court of Kansas has decided that an order isolating a woman affected with venereal disease at the State quarantine hospital for women, issued by the city physician of Wichita, should be executed by the sheriff of the county and the expense of executing the order paid for by the board of county commissioners.

DEATH RATES IN A GROUP OF INSURED PERSONS. COMPARISON OF DEATH RATES FOR PRINCIPAL CAUSE., OF DEATH, JULY AND AUGUST, 1923, AND AUGUST AND YEAR, 1922.

The accompanying table is taken from the Statistical Bulletin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. for September, 1923, and presents

1Nyberg, City Physician, v. Board of Com'rs of Sedgwick County et. al., 216 Pac. 282.

the mortality experience of the industrial insurance department of the company for July and August, 1923, and August and year, 1922. The rates for 1923 are based on a strength of over 14,000,000 insured persons.

The gross death rate for this group for August (7.7 per 1,000) is stated to be the lowest mortality rate so far during 1923 and the lowest rate for the month of August ever recorded among the industrial policyholders of the company, with the single exception of that for August, 1919 (7.6 per 1,000). The death rate for this group has shown an uninterrupted decline from the March rate of 12.2, the highest for the year. The 1921 and 1922 death rates, both of which had their peak in March, increased in August over July. The 1921 death rate reached its lowest point, 7.9 per 1,000, in both July and October, and the 1922 rate reached its low of 7.4 in September.

It is stated that the favorable showing for August, 1923, is due largely to lower mortality from tuberculosis, heart diseases, cerebral hemorrhage, Bright's disease, and pneumonia. A slight seasonal increase for typhoid fever is shown, the death rate for that disease increasing from 6.7 per 100,000 in July to 8.2 in August-which was the same as the record low August rate registered in 1920. It is noted that the cumulative mortality from typhoid fever for this group up to and including the month of August is below that for last year, which marked the minimum in the records of the company for that part of the year. Thus, a new low annual death rate for typhoid among the industrial policyholders of the company is predicted for this year.

Death rates (annual basis) for principal causes per 100,000 lives exposed, July and August, 1923, and August and year 1922.

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DEATHS DURING WEEK ENDED OCTOBER 13, 1923.

Summary of information received by telegraph from industrial insurance companies for week ended October 13, 1923, and corresponding week of 1922. (From the Weekly Health Index, October 16, 1923, issued by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.)

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Deaths from all causes in certain large cities of the United States during the week ended October 13, 1923, infant mortality, annual death rate, and comparison with corresponding week of 1922. (From the Weekly Health Index, October 16, 1923, issued by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce.)

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2 Deaths under 1 year per 1.000 births-an annual rate based on deaths under 1 year for the week and estimated births for 1922. Cities left blank are not in the registration area for births.

Deaths for week ended Friday, Oct. 12, 1923.

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PREVALENCE OF DISEASE.

No health department, State or local, can effectively prevent or control disease without knowledge of when, where, and under what conditions cases are occurring.

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CURRENT STATE SUMMARIES.

These reports are preliminary and the figures are subject to change when later reurns are received by the State health officers.

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