Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . used by consumption. 1891—One death, caused by consumption. 1892—One death, caused by heart disease. 1894—One death, caused by heart disease. 1901—One death, caused by burns. 1903—Two deaths, caused by spinal meningitis and appendicitis. lf)04—One death, caused by spinal meningitis. An analysis of the causes of mortality is also of interest. Of thesixteen deaths in forty-four years, four, or 25 per cent, were fromdiphtheria. These were all during one year when we were crowdedint
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . used by consumption. 1891—One death, caused by consumption. 1892—One death, caused by heart disease. 1894—One death, caused by heart disease. 1901—One death, caused by burns. 1903—Two deaths, caused by spinal meningitis and appendicitis. lf)04—One death, caused by spinal meningitis. An analysis of the causes of mortality is also of interest. Of thesixteen deaths in forty-four years, four, or 25 per cent, were fromdiphtheria. These were all during one year when we were crowdedinto the shop building which was occupied after the fire in deaths, or 25 per cent, were from consumption, and amongchildren who were, by heredity and physical frailty, doomed before theyentered the Institution. Four, or 25 per cent, were from spinal menin-gitis. Two, or 12^ per cent, were from heart disease, one from appen-dicitis, and one from accident. During the last two years, the general health of the pupils has beengood, though an epidemic of measles in Ai)ril and May attacked a large-. 14 THE INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND THE BLIND. number of pupils and seriously interfered with classroom work for twomonths, but none of the troublesome sequelae which sometimes attendthis disease were in evidence and the pupils all went home fully recov-ered. It is our painful duty, however, to report three deaths since thesubmission of the last biennial report, viz: Raymond Oliver, a blindboy, 10 years of age, who died at the West Bay Sanitarium on the21st of March, 1903, from spinal meningitis; May Gillespie, a blindgirl, 15 years of age, who died November 16, 1903, at Fabiola Hospi-tal, following an operation for appendicitis; and William Johnson, adeaf boy, 16 years of age, who died of spinal meningitis on the nightof the 31st of May, 1904. It is a satisfaction to know that though thedisease in each case was sudden and rapid, the mothers of these chil-dren each reac
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