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CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.

In addition to the contagious and infectious diseases noted in the table there were reported during the twelve months ending November 30, 1912, the following cases:

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It is evident that not all of these diseases are reported by physicians. For instance, only nineteen cases of pneumonia were reported, while there were 137 deaths from that disease. It may be taken for granted that the cases of diphtheria, scarlet fever, and typhoid fever are quite accurately reported, but most of the other contagious and infectious diseases are not, although there is a heavy penalty for violating the law in this respect on the part of physicians and on the part of parents who do not report cases when no physicians is employed. In recent years the number of cases of tuberculosis has been quite accurately reported. Many of the cases, however, are reported from the State dispensary in Wilkes-Barre, and these do not all belong to Wilkes-Barre.

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WILKES-BARRE MORTUARY RECORD,

FOR TWELVE MONTHS, DECEMBER 1911, NOVEMBER, 1912, WITH COMPARISONS.

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Totals by Months. 198 125 102 102 117 83 85 97 93 97 78 85 |1162 1148 1165 1106 1069 1109 881 868 945 819

*Other diseases, not included in the classification above, but included in the totals, are as follows: Anemia 1, asphyxia 8, arterio sclerosis 4, atelectasis 1, asthma 6, aneurism 2, anthracosis 1, abcess 5, alcoholism 3, complications 10, servical cellulitis 1, childbirth 3, diabetes 14, difficult birth 6, dermatitis 1, deformity 1, eclampsia 4, empyema 3, epilepsy 2, exhaustion 7, emphysema 1, enteric fever 1, fistula 1, gland enlargement 1, gall stones 3, gangrene 3, goitre 3, hernia 3, hydrocephalus 1, infantile cachexia 1, intussusception 1, laryngitis 3, malnutrition 6, measles 8, muscular atrophy 1, neuritis 2, obstruction of the bowels 12, oedema 15, pleurisy 2, pregnancy I, ptomaine poisoning 1, rickets 1, rheumatism 1, suicide 4, syphilis 1, thyroiditis 1, unknown 1.

OBITUARY.

DR. JAMES FABRIUS BECKWITH.

Dr. James Fabius Beckwith was born in Elm Grove, North Carolina, 1853. After attending the public schools he entered Trinity College, graduating with the degree of A. B. Later he took a business course at Poughkeepsie Business College, at Poughkeepsie, New York, after which he taught school for two years in Elm Grove, North Carolina. He attended the University of North Carolina Medical School for two years and finished his medical course at the University of Maryland. He graduated with first honors and served one year as the first resident physician in the University of Maryland Hospital.

He began the practice of medicine at Frosberg, Md., where he took charge of the practice of Dr. John Williams for one year. He then settled in Washington, North Carolina, where he practiced medicine for two years, after which time he took a course in the Polyclinic Hospital, Philadelphia. He came to Plymouth, 1884, where he practiced his profession until the time of his death, January 23, 1912.

He married Miss Bessie Payne, of Lexington, N. C., 1887. Three children were born to them, two of whom are livingDr. Payne Beckwith of the Polyclinic Hospital, Philadelphia, and Miss Winifred at home.

Your committee respectfully submits the following resolution:

WHEREAS, It has pleased Almighty God to remove from our midst our esteemed friend and co-laborer, Dr. James Fabius Beckwith; and

WHEREAS, We most deeply feel our loss and bowing to the will of Him who doeth all things well; and

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