24.959 17,386 10,961 32,477 22,495 1721 2818 689 3857 573 958 5719 11,768 15,077 11,864 8609 5575 3199 7247 555 4789 2115 318 1185 1990

Total deaths in the State, for five years (including supplements), was 109,906, and the average death-rate, 19.43.
Rates for short periods, or which deal with small numbers, are only approximate, and sometimes misleading, since temporary causes may have been in operation, and small
numbers do not eliminate or balance errors which practically disappear in large aggregates. So, five or ten years analyses are much more important than any single year.
The number of deaths before twenty, in proportion to the rest, are much more informatory as to local causes affecting health, than the total deaths. So, also, the number
dying from the zymotic diseases, and especially from fevers, croup, diphtheria, diarrheal diseases, consumption, and brain and nervous diseases of children.

331

187 120

Totals.

3,753 2,872 1,637 5,151 2,470 245 374 24 778 101 143 1050 1574, 2370 1857 1456 740 531 949

42 266 43 52 255, 905 913 689 520, 270 180 278 21 255 103 17 59 24

54 31

48 44

17 19

88 32

153

100

259 69

198

274

90

59

148

126

177

120

203

195

Burlington City.

115

103

224

176

3,650 2,986 1,568 4,645 1,694 218 361 254 615 144 122 825 1774 1860 1665 1437 610 331 611

57 584 215

27 168 298

Millville.

Under one.

One to five.

CITIES.

Five to twenty.

Twenty to sixty.

Over sixty.

Remittent fever, &c.

6

51 7

19 2

22 4

441 271

491

346

231

408 187

91 134

2

5 1

164

98

174

164 4 12 1

7

3

12

130

79

59 229 202 13 9 3

5

20

15 108 324 539 282 185 135 82 210 17 143 59 15 31 48

33 121

54 124

93 123 107

85 116

54 140

30

80

63

56 162 147 148 7 37 187 543 594 388 342 199 104 256 8 120 92

16

15 19

1 1

35 132 20 36 376 547 474 438 531 180 115 150 22 114 63 14

28

32

8

15

12

47

Acute rheumatism.

Puerperal. Accident.

15,982 11,722 6,741 19,938 9,831 880 1561 544 2638 414 594 3849 7576 9072 7130 5905 2906 1804 3447 286 2455 1127 154 675 1011

Cities are generally more unhealthy than their death-rates indicate, since the population is in many of them much decreased for four months in the year, and thousands
remove themselves instead of removing the evils which distress and sicken those who remain. Hence, in many of our cities, the death-rate for June, July, August and
September, reckoned for the remaining population, is a fair criterion of the health of locality, or at least should be considered for purposes of correction. So health laws are
a great defense to all, but especially to the working classes of cities. It is a question of labor and social science and art, as well as of comfort and hygiene.