This enormous death-rate, it is to be remembered,
occurred in a tribe occupying one of the finest climates of the
world, among the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, a region in
which consumption is extremely rare among the white population,
and in which cases of tuberculosis from the Eastern provinces do
remarkably well. Mayo-Smith quotes a table illustrating the
annual deaths (based on the returns from 1887 to 1891) from
certain infectious diseases per 10,000 European inhabitants. The
figures for each disease give a rough measure of its prevalence
in different countries. The large figures as to small-pox show
the absence in Italy and "Hieronymi Fracastorii," Veronae, 1530.
Statistics and Sociology, New York, 1885.
Austria of vaccination; diphtheria seems to be very fatal in
Germany and Austria; Italy has a large rate for typhoid fever,
and the same is true of the other fevers; France, Germany, and
Austria show a very large rate for tuberculosis, while Italy has
a small rate.
DEATHS FROM CERTAIN DISEASES PER 10,000 INHABITANTS.
Small- Scarlet Diphtheria Typhoid Tuber-
COUNTRY. pox. Measles. fever fever. culosis
Italy, . . . . . 3.
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