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May 19, 1905 
940 
.2ffiortuary 
report for the week ended MIcay 
6, 1905. 
Number 
Bertillon 
Causes of death. 
of deaths. 
number. 
Pernicious fever ............ 
. 
1 
4 
Tubercle of lungs .------------------------------ 
4 
27 
Cancer of ovary ...........:....................... 
1 
42 
Cancer of pleura ...................--...........--.......- 
1 
45 
Meningitis .--------------------------------------------- 
3 
61 
Mental alienation .-------------------------------------------------........- 
1 
68 
Organic heart disease .......................................................... 
1 
79 
Gastro-enteritis, under 2 years 
.3 
105 
Chronic enteritis ................................. 
1 
105a 
Cirrhosis ....................................................................... 
2 
112 
Congenital debility ............................................................ 
1 
151 
Ill-defined or unspecified .............................................. 
. 
. 
.. 
1 
179 
Total ........................................................... 
20 
. 
Annual rate of mortality for the week, 22.85 per 1,000; estimated population, 45,500. 
DANISH 
WEST INDIES. 
Quarantine declared against the Grenadines on account of 8mallpox. 
The following is received froiu Minister Swenson, under date of 
April 22: 
The government of the Danish West Indies, in view of the appear- 
ance of smallpox in the Island of Grenada and in the Grenadines, 
declared under date of March 17, ultimo, a quLarantine of fifteen days 
against vessels arriving from the above-mentioned places. 
ECUADOR. 
Report from Guayaquil-7I1ortality--S;n?callpox 
and yellow fever- 
urnigation of steamship Loa from Chilean and Peravianrtports. 
Acting Assistant Surgeon Gruver reports, April 27, as follows: 
Week ended April 25, 1905: 
Present officially estimated population, 60,000. Mortality from all 
causes, 65, as follows: Yellow fever, 2; infectious fever, 1; paludic 
fever, 1; pernicious fever, 7; enteric fever, 1; fever (without classifi- 
cation), 8;. enteric diseases, 9; grippe, 1; smallpox, 3; tetanus, 1; 
tuberculosis, 13; from allother causes, 16. 
Deaths by ages. 
0 to 
t 
day ---l 
d a--------. 
3 
1 day to I month- 
3 
1 month to 1 vear -.-.-.-.12 
1 to 5 years - 
. 
17 
5 to 10 vears - 
2 
10 to 20 years - 
.- 
7 
20 to 30 years ---------- 
.-.....---. 
5 
30 to 40 years- 
5 
40 to 50 years -.- 
- 
6 
50 to 60 years -.--.. 
- 
1 
60 to 70 years- 
2 
90 to 100 years - 
2 
On April 20, steamship Loa, from Chilean and Peruvian ports, 
cleared for Ancon, Canal Zone, with 6 cabin and 4 steerage passen- 
gers from this port. 
Seven cabin and 10 steerage passengers froni 
ports south were placed in quarantine to complete tetn days from last 
infected port. 
Vessel fumigated.