Annual report of the Board of Health of the Health Department of the City of New York . easein 190J. 764 653 .... Ill 125 90 35 310 5 305 710 5c8 202 940 734 206 60s 324 282 2,015 2,190 175 157 418 261 254 157 97 8,020 451 1,284 30 2,450 2,608 158 471 488 17 345 630 285 5,478 244 ° 161 2,283 447 337 495 . 829 680 149 2,8t2 2,803 9 175 642 6,7 5 417 9?9 811 148 127 137 10 772 805 33 .... 3,126 273 1,499 I,I20 379 2,843 46s 68,112 67,864 3,305 248 24S 237 Typhoid were 653 deaths report
Annual report of the Board of Health of the Health Department of the City of New York . easein 190J. 764 653 .... Ill 125 90 35 310 5 305 710 5c8 202 940 734 206 60s 324 282 2,015 2,190 175 157 418 261 254 157 97 8,020 451 1,284 30 2,450 2,608 158 471 488 17 345 630 285 5,478 244 ° 161 2,283 447 337 495 . 829 680 149 2,8t2 2,803 9 175 642 6,7 5 417 9?9 811 148 127 137 10 772 805 33 .... 3,126 273 1,499 I,I20 379 2,843 46s 68,112 67,864 3,305 248 24S 237 Typhoid were 653 deaths reported from this cause as having occurred during theyear, a decrease of iii as compared with 1902. The death rate per 10,000 from thisdisease in the former City of New York from 1873 to 1903 is given in the followingtable:Deaths and Death Rates from Typhoid Fever, Old City of New York, per 10,000, 1873 to 1903. AVERAGEDEATH DECENNIAL RATES \ DEATHi RATE. 18731874,18751876 18771878 187918S018811882 18831884 i88q1886188718881889189018911892 18931894 18951896 1837189818991900i9or1902 1903. The foregoing table shows a decrease of 50 per cent, in the death rate, comparingthat of 1903 with the decennial average rate of 1873 to 1882. There were 2,462 casesof typhoid fever reported during the year in the boroughs of Manhattan and TheBronx, as compared with 2,629 cases reported in 1902; if we compare either of thesefigures with the average for the preceding ten years, which was 1,241 cases, the conclu-sion may be drawn that this apparent increase, compared with the decreasing deathrate, was due to one of two causes, either there has been a great increase in the preva-lence of the disease coincident with the discovery of a therapeutic agent of undoubted 238 value, or that the practising physicians of the City have taken advantage of the facili-ties of the Department offered for the more accurate diagnosis of this disease andconsequently have reported cases occurring in their practise much m
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