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_I^138 THE HEALTH BULLETIN.WILMINGTON. N. C.Year.General^ , .J jTyphoidDiarrheal, , DiseasesTuberculosis Under TwoYearsCombinedContagions191119121913 (estimatedThe general death rates are per 1,000; the special disease rates per 100,000.
THE HEALTH BULLETIN. 139great trouble with the statistical' witnessis not that the witness fails totell the truth and nothing but the truth(this witness never lies), but that frequentlythe witness is not given a fairchance to tell the whole truth.Attention has been specifically directedto the reduction in Wilmington'sdeath rates since 1911. Now the chartsshow that 1911 was an exceptionalyear and not an average year in thehealth record of Wilmington. Thisquestion, then, becomes pertinent righthere: Should exceptional years beused as the standard by which to measurethe efficiency of health work?Should a health officer, whose administrationbegan in a year characterizedby exceptionally low rates, rates lowerthan for ten years, be discredited becausehe gets no reduction or only avery slight reduction in his rates duringthe first and second years of hiswork? Likewise, should a health officerbe credited with the fullreductionof death rates coincident with an administrationwhich started during ayear with exceptionally high or epidemicrates?We believe that an average yearshould be used as a standard of measurement,and that such a standard isthe only fair measure to be adopted injudging the quality of health work ona death ratebasis.If we study the death rate of Wilmingtonfrom this standpoint, it wouldappear that the health work coincidentwith the half decade from 1906 to 1910inclusive, expresses itself in a statisticaldrop from a death rate of 25.3,which was even less than the averagein the preceding five years, to a deathrate in 1910 of 20.8. I submit that thisdecline, considered in accordance withthe principles of statistical practice, asabove suggested, is even more creditablethan the decline since 1911, whichwas an exceptional year.Now, in conclusion, I wish to saythat, notwithstanding that the ratesmost frequently quoted in regard toWilmington go back only to 1911, andstart, therefore, from an exceptional orepidemic year as a basis of measurement,we think the decline in deathrates, even during the last few years,is very satisfactory. We might pointout, however, in this connection, thatthere is still much to be accomplished.The typhoid rates are still threetimes the average for the United States.The diarrheal diseases of childrenunder two years of age are two andone-half times the average, and tuberculosisis 50 per cent higher than theaverage, and finally, the general deathrate for this year, 21.6, is 20 per centabove the average urban death rate inthe United States.MR. MAYOR, THIS FOR YOU."It is in health that cities grow; insunshine that their monuments arebuilded. It is in disease that they arewrecked; in pestilence that effortceases and hope dies."Therefore, in the not very long ago,you created a department. You bade itguard the public health. You gave ita trust that may not be broken. Youcharged it with a vigil that is sacred."And you assumed a duty. Youtendered fealty to this, your greatestdepartment; for had you not bade itwatch over the lives of men and womenand little children."Nor creed, nor faith, nor party mayforget."The Healthologist.
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