Michigan Bulletin Of Vital Statistics PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ...under (72). 78. Asthma. Inc. Summer cntarrh, summer bronchitis, hay fever. E210. Cardiac asthma (57), suflocative catarrh:70). some of the terms hilherto included under this title, ought, uudoubtedly, to go under influenza (9). 7'7. Other diseases of the respiratory system. Inc. Emphysema (unqualified, or vesicular or pulmonary) edema of the lungs, neumothorax, pleurodynia, hydatlds of the lungs, ulmonary calcu l. Also the following indefinite returns: Organic uni: disease, pulmonary affection, "lung trouble," hemoptysis, pulmonary hemorrhage, bronchorrhagln, tracheotomy (not for diphtheria or foreign body). Ere. Cancer of the lungs (I62). The nrrun ement of causes of death under the respiratory group of the so-calle "local diseases," shows the transitional nature of our resent ractice to a greater extent, erha.p=, than any other group. t is wel known that the bulk of the d senses here included are infect ions in their character, and are due to one or more specific bacilli. The ty ica.l disease of the group, lobar pneumonia, is the one concerning wh ch evidence for its reclassification as an acute infectious (Benera epidemic) disease is strongest, yet stitisticnl practice as yet nowhere, with few exceptions, hss conformed to the logical requirements of the case. One of these exceptions is the State of Rhoda Island. whose registration report, since 1895, has placed pneumonia. where it belongs among the communicable diseases. in Michigan deaths from pneumonia are subject to the same regulations relating to the transportation of corpses as deaths from typhoid fever, and the tendency is to extend the methods of restriction found applicable to the otherinfectious diseases to pneumonia. From its great numerical importance....