Monthly Bulletin of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts

MONTHLY

OF THE

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH

New Series.

BULLETIN

OF

MASSACHUSETTS.

An official publication of the State Board of Health of Massachusetts, issued monthly from the office of the Board, 141 State House, Boston, Mass.

MARCH, 1907.

JULIAN A. MEAD, M.D., WATERTOWN.
HIRAM F. MILLS, C.E., LAWRENCE.

JOHN W. BARTOL, M.D., BOSTON.

ENTERED AT THE POST-OFFICE AT BOSTON, FEB. 15, 1906, AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER.

STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.

HENRY P. WALCOTT, M.D., CAMBRIDGE, Chairman.

Vol. 2. No. 3.

GERARD C. TOBEY, ESQ., WAREHAM.
JAMES W. HULL, PITTSFIELD.

CHARLES H. PORTER, QUINCY.

CHARLES HARRINGTON, M.D., BOSTON, Secretary.

BOSTON :

WRIGHT & POTTER PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS, 18 POST OFFICE SQUARE.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Weekly returns of deaths from cities and towns of more than 10,000 population,

Weekly returns of deaths from certain infectious diseases,

Weekly returns of cases of infectious diseases,

Monthly report on inspection of food and drugs,

Prosecutions for violations of the law relating to food and drugs,

List of adulterated foods, etc., for March, 1907, .

Inspection of dairies,

Resolutions regarding the milk supply,

Proprietary preparations advertised during March, 1907, as unsalable at retail,
The Carney Common Sense Opiate Cure,

Deaths from opium or morphine containing proprietary preparations,

Preliminary report of the State Board of Health to the Legislature, on drawn and
undrawn cold-storage poultry,

An epidemic of scarlet fever in Boston, Cambridge, Somerville and Everett,
New legislation,

WEEKLY RETURNS OF DEATHS FROM CITIES AND TOWNS OF MORE THAN 10,000 POPULATION.

Population.1 mated for 1907.

609,761
132,240

106,123

99,745

78,707

76,000

72,581
51,730

51,289

39,941

38,659
38,316
38,209
38,095
33,636
31,274
30,967

29,944

27,493

26,425

26,011

25,003

22,150

20,615

20,508
20,294
15,794

96,380

80,743 26

79,744

15,139

15,050

14,867

14,755

14,462

14,263

14,169

13,787

13,697

13,291

13,105

13,072

12,528
12,409

11,946

11,796

11,691

Reported Deaths in
Each.

11,648

11,416

10,687

10,549

225

47

48

34

24

14
16

12

10

12

11

11

12

Deaths under Five
Years.

12

Recapitulation.

Principal In

fectious Diseases.

DEATHS FROM

Acute Lung
Diseases.

Diphtheria.

798 213 127 154 71 14

Measles.

Total of reporting towns,

2,232,713

1 The populations were estimated upon the rate of growth from 1900 to 1905. Those of Taunton, Gloucester, North Adams and Clinton were allowed to stand as in 1905, having shown no increase during the five-year period. The gain in the population of Lowell is due to the annexation of a part of the town of Tewksbury. The population of Lawrence by the census of 1905 was 70,050, but, owing to the building of the new Wood and Arlington mills, employing at present some 2,500 operatives, an increase of about 6,000 is estimated by the Lawrence board of health, or 76,000. There will undoubtedly be a further increase by the end of the year, as these mills take on more help.

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