Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey . ve deaths were noted. Gen-eral diseases accounted for 25 7 deaths; diseasesof the nervous system, 2 71; diseases of the cir-culatory system, 404; diseases of the respira-tory system, 266; diseases of the digestive sys-tem, 70; diseases of the genito-urinary system,154; senility, 77; suicide, 32; accidents. 102;homicide, 14, and sequels of surgical opera-tions, 74. The principal assigned causes ofdeath from diseases and their ^frequency were:Organic heart disease, 236; cerebral hemor-rhage, 211; pneumonia, 186; nephritis anduraemia, 142; malignant
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey . ve deaths were noted. Gen-eral diseases accounted for 25 7 deaths; diseasesof the nervous system, 2 71; diseases of the cir-culatory system, 404; diseases of the respira-tory system, 266; diseases of the digestive sys-tem, 70; diseases of the genito-urinary system,154; senility, 77; suicide, 32; accidents. 102;homicide, 14, and sequels of surgical opera-tions, 74. The principal assigned causes ofdeath from diseases and their ^frequency were:Organic heart disease, 236; cerebral hemor-rhage, 211; pneumonia, 186; nephritis anduraemia, 142; malignant tumors, 91; tubercu-losis, 59: angina pectoris, 50; pneumonia-in-fluenza, 37; arterio-sclerosis, 33; myocarditis,34; septicaemia, 33; influenza, 29; diabetes, 28;meningitis, 17; cirrhosis of the liver and acutedilation of the heart, each 16; endocarditis andanemia, each 15; peritonitis, , and appendi-citis and gastritis, each 11.—Newark EveningNews. 207 Journal of The Medical Society of New Jersey Published onthe First Day of Every Month. Under the Directionof the Committee on Publication Vol. XIX. No. 8 ORANGE, N. J., AUGUST, 1922 SubscriptrDn. $ per YearSmsrle Copies, 25 Cents DIAGNOSTIC SURVEYS BY DIAG-NOSTIC COMMISSIONS FORASYLUM POPULATIONS. By Charles A. L. Reed, ^ Cincinnati, Ohio. The relation of focal infe^^tions to thecause, pathology and rational treatmentof so-called epileptics and the equallyso-called insane, is of increasing inter-est if not imperative importance. Thus,during the last eleven years, I havefound focal infection present in all ofmore than one thousand consecutivecases of epilepsy, otherwise moreproperly called chronic convulsive tox-emia. Thus, again, during the last fouryears, at the New Jersey State Hospi-tal, Dr. Henry A. .Cotton has found fo-cal infections constantly called chronicpsychotic toxemia. A distinguishedneurologist. Dr. Herman H. Hoppe. hasjust reported to me a case in whichhe had clinically demonstrated that afocus of infe
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