compared with 74, an increase of 15. There were 102 deaths attributed to violence, as compared with 89, an increase of 13. Apparently the epidemic of measles is over as there were only 4 deaths reported from this cause as compared with 2. The welcome incident in the week's mortality was the comparatively few number of deaths reported from diarrhoeal diseases under five years of age, there having been 40 deaths reported as compared with 71, a decrease of 31 deaths. The same number of deaths was reported from diphtheria and croup, 11, as in the corresponding week of 1921.

During the week there were 20 deaths reported from drowning; 21 deaths from being run over by street vehicles and 24 deaths from falls.

Viewed from the point of age grouping, infants under one year of age showed a low mortality of 158 deaths as compared with 186, a decrease of 28; between one and five years of age there were 6 more deaths reported than in the corresponding week of 1921; between five and sixty-five years of age there was an increase of 57 deaths reported and at ages sixty-five years and over an increase of 18 deaths reported.

The death rate for the first 28 weeks of the year was 13.43 as compared with a rate of 11.98 in the corresponding period of 1921, an increase of 1.45 of a point. From January 1 to date, 38 infants under one year of age died out of every 1,000 births reported, as compared with the mortality of 74 at this age group in the corresponding period of 1921.

VITAL STATISTICS-CITY OF NEW YORK

Deaths, and Annual Death Rate Per 1,000; Deaths According to Certain Causes and Ages; Deaths and Death Rate Under One Year Per 1,000 Births

Annual Death Rate 12.91 18.48 18.47 13.18 12.64 12.87 11.83 11.47 11 21

894 362
760 822

Acute Infectious Diseases" include Typhoid Fever, Scarlet Fever, Measles, Diphtheria, Whooping Cough, Smallpox and Cerebro-spinal Meningitis. **Does not include suicides.

Cases of Reportable Infectious Diseases.

5

78

224

882
806

291 819 820

821 290

292

206 197 207 198 162 177 179 88.2 81.4 78.0 82.0 78.5 64.2 70.1 70.9 49.1 51.5 65.7 62.7 867 882 293 805 298 210 199 236 787 743 799 725 693 785 630 637 629 294 298

*Corrected by redistributing deaths according to borough of residence.

During the first twenty-eight weeks of this year there were 42,078 deaths, a rate of 13.43 per 1,000 population. During the corresponding weeks of last year there were 36,997 deaths, a rate of 11.98 per 1,000 population. Deaths by Principal Causes; and Ages

632 238

577 90 1067

99

If the deaths under one month, numbering 79 from all causes, be deducted from the total deaths under one year, the resulting rate will be 31 per 1,000 births (weekly average). *Includes deaths from Erysipelas 1, Syphilis 8, Diabetes 27, Alcoholism 4, Locomotor Ataxia 1, Paresis 6, Arterio-sclerosis 40, all other congenital causes 12.

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ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D., Commissioner of Health.

NEW SERIES, Vol. XI.

JULY 29, 1922.

No. 30.

PUBLIC HEALTH LECTURE PROGRAM OF THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION.

The Bureau of Public Health Education of the Department of Health will be prepared, beginning October 1, to give lectures on the following subjects:

Heart Disease.

Nephritis.

Diabetes.

Diseases of the Circulatory System.

Organizations desiring lectures on these topics will please communicate with the Division of Lectures, Bureau of Public Health Education, Department of Health, 505 Pearl Street, Manhattan, stating date and hour lecture is desired, kind and probable size of audience, whether male, female or mixed, adolescents or adults. With the exception of the lectures on social hygiene, lectures are given by both men and women lecturers. For the social hygiene lectures the audiences are divided, and each portion addressed by one of like sex.

Any of the above lectures may be illustrated, if so desired. Lectures may also be had in the following languages: Arabic, French, Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish.

LECTURERS ON PUBLIC HEALTH TOPICS WANTED.

The Bureau of Public Health Education, of the Department of Health, desires to arrange for public talks on subjects relating to the preservation of public health, and extending opportunity for questions and discussion on medical topics. It is desired to arrange with well known specialists in various medical fields to give these talks at meetings of different societies on subjects of interest and importance to all practitioners.

These talks afford splendid opportunities for advertising medicine and instructing the public, and will do much to overcome the inroads of quackery and improper cults which prey and prosper on ignorance.

Volunteer speakers will kindly furnish the Director of the Bureau with the following particulars:

Full name; titles; connections; address; telephone; specialty. It would be helpful if the time available were mentioned.

VALUE OF PUBLIC HEALTH LECTURES GIVEN.

The lecture work of the Bureau of Public Health Education is steadily growing in popularity. It makes a special appeal to the foreign population unable to read English, and which is greatly in need of instruction in sanitation and American standards of living.

Labor is awakening to the vital importance of health to the worker, and its co-operation with the Department, as well as the splendid constructive work down by special unions, is one of the most hopeful signs of the times.

The continuation schools, Ys, mothers' clubs, churches, Girl and Boy Scouts, and various other organizations, offer important fields for usefulness to the lecturers of the Department of Health.

Lectures Given by the Bureau of Public Health Education.