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THE CAIRO -MESSENGER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15TII, 1926.
TABLE A—DEATH RATES PER 100,000 ESTIMATED POPULATION, BY
SPECIAL CAUSES, IN GEORGIA: 1922 TO 1924.
Death Rate Per 100,001) Population.
Cause of Death
1924 1923 1 1922 |
All causes ......................................... 1148.8 1126.7 | 1040.41
Typhoid and paratyphoid fever........ 22.1 20.5 23.5
Malaria ................................................... 13.1 15.7 16.9
Smallpox .................................... 0.8 0.1 0.7
Measles ................................................ 18.6 12.7 0.2
Scarlet fever ................ 0.7 0.8 0.9
Whooping cough ................. 15.0 9.2 4.7
Diphtheria .......................... 7.3 9.7 13.3
Influenza ............................. 30.7 58.4 41.0
Erysipelas ........................... 1.3 1.6 1.6
Meningococcus meningitis 0.6 0.7 1.1
Tuberculosis (total) ............................ 88.4 91.3 88.0
Cancer and other malignant tumors.. 46.0 44.6 39.8
Dia'betes mellitus .................................. 8.8 9.0 9.0
Cerebral hemorrhage and softening.. 73.3 64.4 56.6
Diseases of the Heart .......................... 108.5 100.8 91.1
Bronchitis ............................................. 5.4 4.7 4.8
Pneumonia (all forms) ................. 99.1 92.0 79.8
Diarrhea & Enteritis (under 2 yrs.) 33.4 | 33.3 28.9
Appendicitis and typhlitis ______________ 10.5 11.2 10.6
Hernia, intestinal obstruction _______ 8.7 8.8 8.3
Cirrhosis of the liver ......................... 4.0 3.5 3.8
Nephritis .............................................. 102.8 98.6 89.4
Puerperal Septicemia .......................... 7.4 8.2 8.0
Other Puerperal causes ...................... 16.9 15.8 15.1
Congenital malformations and dis
eases of infancy ................................ 75.8 69.9 60.7
Suicide ................................................... 6.4 5.7 5.8
Homicide ................................................ 18.3 17.2 18.9
Accidental and unspecified external
causes.................................................... 64.3 61.8 57.9
Unknown or ill-defined diseases........ 51.3 46.7 53.2
All other causes ................................... 209.4 209.9 206.9
Table A shows death rates per 100,000 population by certain importani
causes for three years (1922, 1923 and 1924) when our registration of deaths
was sufficiently complete to be included in the Federal report of Mortalitj
Statistics. Since the decision of the Supreme Court in 1925, declaring il
unconstitutional for the county to pay the fees of local registrars, the regis
tration of both deaths and births has fallen off to such an extent that any
statistics compiled from them would be not only worthless but misleading.
Unless the constitutional amendment, providing for the collection and
preservation of records of births and deaths, is ratified at the polls this
November, these and other valuable vital statistics cannot be continued
Hence Georgia will be unable to tell how she stands In matters of public
health.
From a study of Table A it is found that Diseases of the Heart took
the greatest toll of life in each of the three years, the highest rate (108.5)
being for the year 1924. Next in gravity is Nephritis with a death rate oi
102.8 in the year l!f24.
Although the death rates from Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever show
substantial decreases of about 13 and 6 per cents respectively compared witl
the rate (23.5) in 1922, we must not let our optimism cause us to relinquisli
our efforts against deaths from Typhoid Fever one lota, for we still have a
long hard fight to reach the low rate, 7.5, established by the Registratioa
Area in 1922.
Measles and W’hooping Cough both show big increases in their rates oi
1923 and 1924 compared with the rates (0.2 and 4.7 respectively) in 1922.
This, however, is not peculiar to Georgia, for an increase in the rates foi
these causes obtains throughout the Registration Area in 1923 and 1924
Union News.
Mrs. E. Whidden spent Thursday
p. m. with Mrs. T. J. Threlkel.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Holley were
shopping in Cairo Saturday p. m.
Mr. Alex Waters and daughters at
tended Sunday school at Spring Hill
Sunday a. m.
Several from this community at
tended the Sunday School Rally at
Pine Level Sunday.
Miss Hattie Threlkel and Mr. Jessie
Dekle were quietly married at the
home of Rev. F. 0. Oates, Wednesday
night. Miss Threlkel is the daughter
of Mrs. T. J. Threlkel of this corn
munity. Mr. Dekle is the son of
Mrs. Clara Dekle, of Woodland.
Miss Relia Holley called on Miss
Bessie Waters Saturday p. m.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Waters and
son, Lavelle spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. Jess Owens of Capel.
Mr. and Mrs. T. I). Burt made a
business trip to Ochlocknee last Mon
day p. m.
Several from this community at
tended preaching at Pine Forest Sun
day night.
Elpino News.
Our school has started again and
i? progressing nicely, with Mrs. Ethel
E. Standridge as principal.
The Sunday School Rally was en
joyed very much by the students of
Elpino.
Miss Bessie Robinson was the guest
of Miss Dartha Harrison Saturday
night.
We are glad to know that Mr. Paul
Swann is able to be in this communi
ty again.
Mr. Litt Barrett from Miami is
visiting relatives here.
Miss Dollie Green and Mr. Howard
Reed attended the Sunday School
Rally Sunday.
Mr. Wight Hurst, and sisters, Aud
rey and Sadie, attended services at
Pine Foi’est Sunday night.
The United States Department of
Agriculture has enlisted the motion
picture screen in its campaign to im
prove the farm water supply. Turn
On the Water, a single-reel film pro
duced by the department and de
scribing the installation of simple,
inexpensive water systems for farms
and suburban dwellings, is now
available.
if Messenger want ads pay. Try them.
Fine Kudzu Crop Here
on Farm of J. B. Wight
The article below is from the pen
of Gb F Hunnicutt, editor of the
Southern Cultivator and Farming, a
widely known farm publication, about
the present crop of Kudzu on the farm
of Mr. J. B. Wight, near Cairo:
About a year ago one of our sub
scribers wrote to us asking that we
visit some farmers who had made a
success with the Kudzu vine, as a hay
plant, and to tell how he managed it.
Until recently we had been unable to
find this man. On the 16th day of
August we were at Cairo, Ga., and
went with Mr. J. B, Wight to see his
farm. He showed us 40 acres solidly
covered with Kudzu vine that was
shoulder high to us all over, making
one of the finest hay fields that wo
had ever seen. He starts to cutting
it about the first of September. He
says on account of the thick, rank
growth, it is some trouble to cut and
to rake up, but the quality and qual
ity of the hay compensates him for
all this troubles. He has to keep
hands with pitchforks to rake back
the vines whenever the mower be
comes clogged. We know this field
would make around four tons per
acre. Mr. Wight has learned just how
to manage the Kudzu to secure a per
fect stand. He sets out the plants
eighteen feet rows and ten to twelve
feet in the drill. Then for two years
he cultivates corn or cotton in the
middle. This cultivates the Kudzu
vine and throws all the runners back
along a narrow ridge along the drill
row, and causes them to make a thick
growth. It takes three years for It
to cover the land perfectly. It is no
trouble after the vines have become
well matted along three or four fee;;
of the row. There was not one single
weak spot in Mr. Wight’s Kudzu. Tt
was as smooth and even as any grain
field or meadow. We know now that
Kudzu can be used as an economical
hay plant. We have always known
that any plant that made the wonder
ful growth the Kudzu would make,
and that had its nutritive value, should
be a great blessing to our farmers.
But they have been very slow to learn
just how to handle it. Well, it is be
ing done on the Wight farm at Cairo,
Georgia, and any farmer can do so
who will carry out Mr. Wight’s meth
od.