SUMMARY FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST, 1915. The number of deaths reported during the month of August, 1915, was 6,011, with a death rate of 12.20 per 1,000 of the population, as against 5,883 and a rate of 12.41 for the corresponding month of 1914, an increase of 128 deaths and a decrease of .20 of a point in the rate. If the increase in population in 1915 over 1914 be taken into consideration the mortality shows a decrease of 107 deaths. Allowance being made for the increase in population, the following causes showed a decreased mortality: Scarlet fever, 7; cancer, 22; cerebro-spinal meningitis, 9; apoplexy, 18; organic heart diseases, 44; acute bronchitis, 6; broncho preumonia, 7; Bright's disease and nephritis, 39; homicide, 15, and accidents, 29; the causes showing an increased mortality were: Typhoid fever, 27; measles, 11; whooping cough, 24; diphtheria and croup, 4; pulmonary tuberculosis, 34; other tubercular diseases, 5; lobar pneumonia, 19; diarrhoeal diseases, under five years, 54; congenital debility and malformations, 21; suicide, 15, and ill-defined causes, 12. Viewed from the point of age groupings, there was an increase of 41 deaths under one year of age, 42 at one year of age, 83 between two and five years, and 39 between twenty-five and forty-five years; those age groupings showing decreased mortality were, five to fifteen years, 40; fifteen to twenty-five, 41; fortyfive to sixty-five, 131, and at sixty-five years and over, 62. The number of births reported during the month was 12,206, a decrease of 342 compared with the figures reported in August, 1914. The number of marriages reported was 3,614, a decrease of 77, as against 3,691 reported in the corresponding month of the preceding year. There occurred 119 deaths of non-residents of the City during the month just past, which, if deducted from the mortality, would give a rate of 11.96. POPULATION, MARRIAGES, BIRTHS AND DEATHS, AUGUST, Brooklyn.. City of N.Y. riages B'ths D'ths riages B'ths D'ths 2,575,788 2,590,455 2,023 5,636 2,887 705,742 283 1,353 601,266 555 9.20 25.64 13.13 12.92 9.08 6.68 24.92 11.54 376,138 417,107 131 823 413 3.70 23.25 11.67 99,890 102,614 48 184 207 5.51 21.13 | 23.77 5,585,772 5,806,532 3,614 12,206 6,011 7.33 24.77 12.20 i 12.24 11.30 17.00 *The death-rate of each Borough is corrected by inclusion of the deaths of its residents in other Boroughs, and exclusion of deaths of residents of other boroughs within its boundaries. †The estimate of the Bureau of the Census is based upon the arithmetical method, that of the Department of Health upon the geometrical method of determining the increase in population for post-censal years. **Includes 119 deaths of non-residents of the City, which, if deducted, would give a death rate for the City of 11.96 per 1,000. DEATHS ACCORDING TO AGE GROUPS, AUGUST, 1915. Year 2 Years 1 Un- Year Un 65 Boroughs All der and der 5-15 15-25 25-45 45-65 Years Col- ChiAges 1 under 5 Years Years Years Years and ored nese Manhattan 2,841 over |