Excerpt from Eighteenth Annual Report of the Board of Health of the City of Boston: For the Year 1889The Board of Health respectfully submits its eighteenth annual report, covering the Work of this department for the year 1889.The deaths during the year numbered com pared with in 1888, making the death-rate for the year reckoning the present population of the city at This is a high rate, but it is necessary to analyze the list of deaths and their causes in order to see how far sanitary administration can be held responsible for this record.Of the deaths during the year, it will be, seen by the tables that but are due to causes which are generally classed under the head of preventable diseases. That is to say, per cent. Of the total deaths were from zymotic diseases, while per cent. Were from other causes.There were deaths from consumption, 938 from pneu monia, 448 from bronchitis, and 789 from heart-disease. These, together with the deaths from violent causes, Old age, Bright's disease, and cancer, account for nearly one-half the total number of deaths. Of the deaths from preventable causes, diphtheria was the cause of the largest number, there having been 564 deaths from this disease, and 450 from cholera-infantum. The death-rate among children under five years of age was per cent., against the previous year, but still a comparatively low percentage of the total mortality.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.