Mortuary experience of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...insured over 25 years, who died in the year 1869. DIARRHEAL DISEASES. Dysentery, Diarrhoea, Cholera Morbus, and Cholera approach one another closely, and often there is no distinct line of separation in either the popular or professional nomenclature. Cholera proper, however, is usually sufficiently defined as a malignant epidemic form of disease, though occasionally cases of Cholera Morbus are confused with it. DYSENTERY. There have been 81 deaths from Dysentery. As shown in our Preliminary Report, it occurred equally at all ages and all periods of insurance, and among all nationalities, except that there were few cases among the Germans. It has been most prevalent in the Western and Northwestern States, and least in the Middle States. There were proportionally more deaths in the Eastern States, especially in Connecticut, than in the Middle States. The only time and place in which it was especially fatal, so as to approach the character of an epidemic, was in 1849 and 1850, among the immigrants to California. In 1849 there were 10 deaths, 6 of which occurred in California, and 2 on the voyage between California and Panama; in 1850 another death occurred in California. There has been no special prevalence of the disease in that State since 1850. The States in which it has been proportionally most frequent were Connecticut, Wisconsin, Kentucky, and Missouri. DIARRHCEA. There have been 52 deaths from Diarrhoea. Eighteen were reported as " Chronic Diarrhoea," and others apparently belonged to the same form, judging from the duration of the sickness. There have been a comparatively small number of cases among the young, and a very large mortality at advanced age, the number of deaths increasing directly with the age. It has been nearly equal among all...