Annual report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island, for the year ending .. . 3,578 3,480 1 4,160 1 2,898! 1 S34 503 590 1,9.)2 3,.3-36 443 * Xol iiicliulin<; Providence :ilO FORTlKTir KKGISTJiATlON KBIOIT. [1893. Sax. — Of tlie 7,058 persons deceased from diseases of the heart, inthe last twenty-eight years, 3,578 were males, and 3,480 were females ;or 103 males to each 100 females. Parentage.—Of the 7,058 decedents, during twenty-eight years,4,160 were of native parentage, and 2,898 of foreign. The propor-tions would, therefore, stand as follows : To every 100
Annual report of the State Board of Health of the State of Rhode Island, for the year ending .. . 3,578 3,480 1 4,160 1 2,898! 1 S34 503 590 1,9.)2 3,.3-36 443 * Xol iiicliulin<; Providence :ilO FORTlKTir KKGISTJiATlON KBIOIT. [1893. Sax. — Of tlie 7,058 persons deceased from diseases of the heart, inthe last twenty-eight years, 3,578 were males, and 3,480 were females ;or 103 males to each 100 females. Parentage.—Of the 7,058 decedents, during twenty-eight years,4,160 were of native parentage, and 2,898 of foreign. The propor-tions would, therefore, stand as follows : To every 100 of foreignparentage there were about 143 of native; or about 59 native and 41of foreign parentage in every 100 deaths. This difference has beengradually diminishing. In 1892 there were two more deaths of foreignthan of native parentage. The following Table shows the number of decedents from diseasesof the heart, in each divisional period of life, in each of the last twenty-eight years : ;i.] CALSES or- DKATir. Tahlk LXXIX. Morfalilii from Diseasea of the Hedrl. in Atje 42 61 69 3S 52 68 35 61 79 54 84 97 45 69 85 53 69 78 41 86 109 59 93 111 767 1,184 1,454 1,475 The results of Iwenty-eiglit years of registration, with record ofages of decedents from diseases of the lieart, show in periods of twentyyears each of life, the following percentages : 213 PORTIETII IlKGIKTRATfON KEPOUT. [1893. Under 20 years of age per cent. Between 20 and 40 14 0 per cent. Between 40 and 60 ; per cent. Between CO and 80 per cent. Over 80 per cent. Not stated 3 per cent. per cent. It will be seen that more than 41 per cent, of all the deaths fromdiseases of the heart were of persons over sixty N^ears of age, andnnder eighty. Diseases of the heart have acquired large importance as a cause ofdeath. From in every 1,000 deaths from all causes, in 1865,heart diseases gradually increased to about 73 in every 1,000, in 1889,and falling bacli to slightl
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