. Proceedings of the Connecticut State Medical Society .. . county had nearly double the Torrington rate. Derby, a closeneighbor of Bridgeport, had more than double the rate of thelatter city. (Figs. 1-4.) In many cases these differences are to be accounted for inlarge part by local conditions of housing, transportation andof occupation, which it would be impossible to fully study—ina word, to crowding—which increases contact and diminishes INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC IN CONNECTICUT. 155 &T. resistance. But these conditions do not account for all the dif-ferences. One thinks at once of the nationality
. Proceedings of the Connecticut State Medical Society .. . county had nearly double the Torrington rate. Derby, a closeneighbor of Bridgeport, had more than double the rate of thelatter city. (Figs. 1-4.) In many cases these differences are to be accounted for inlarge part by local conditions of housing, transportation andof occupation, which it would be impossible to fully study—ina word, to crowding—which increases contact and diminishes INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC IN CONNECTICUT. 155 &T. resistance. But these conditions do not account for all the dif-ferences. One thinks at once of the nationality of the popula-tion as affecting the local death rate. The comparison of theserates with the proportion of foreign and native born citizensdoes show—that, at the extremes, that is, in the communitieshaving the highest and lowest percentage of the native born,the death rate rises or falls accordingly. High percentage of I56 JAMES FREDERICK ROGERS, 0,177* ITU4AJ 1-T. O O O Gzzn /•Cog. T-\C Tlo^ZtZ^U. (no J OvcJcuj™*^ (roe) \*\x*j-<. <U, (j 3a) £fe*~-/o<^ frt c)To&£&*^ffri-d( von) 1la^*J- J^-ci~<~. (3-To) X 3 2-. 17 •{ ) 3-MA-^ (/x foj (jOiJ~) Vw «. r-hiu^^cLM(S-ff) \J-tSL~-TM Q°o/ hrt^vLviMZ (2/o/ E^-LUjLj (vvo .( zzzix^uta.**) INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC IN CONNECTICUT. 157 American born means less crowding and better sanitary condi-tions generally. Between these extremes, however, the per-centages seem to have no connection with the wide fluc
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