Secretary's Mortuary Report. OFFICE BOARD OF HEALTH, STATE OF LOUISIANA. To the Members of the Board of Health: I have the honor to submit the following Annual Report of Interments in the city of New Orleans, during the year 1871. The report is carefully compiled from the weekly returns made to this office, by the sextons of the twenty-five different city cemeteries. This is This report, as heretofore, includes the still-born. unfair to the reputation of the city for healthfulness, as it adds considerably to the total mortality, very largely augments the number of interments of children under one year of age, and, not being customary in other cities, the inferences drawn from the comparison of these tables of mortality, as to the salubrity of New Orleans, are not only unfavorable, but are also unjust. In future Mortuary Reports, the number of still-born children will not be included in the tables of mortality, but will be given as separate items of statistics. Mortuary Report of the Board of Health of the State of Louisiana, from January 1st, to December 31st, 1871. Mortuary Report-Continued. 5102 1 3 1 26 94 2 14 1 39 5 71 4 Fever.. Fever, bilious.. Fever, catarrhal Fever, congestive. Fever, hemorrhagic.. Fracture of clavicle.. Fracture of leg.. Fracture of skull.. Hemorrhage from the bowels Hemorrhage from the lungs, 3 Heart, disease of... Heart, disease valvular.. 9 17 5 11 5 13 17 15 134 40 16 1 3 |