1931
New Haven's population is 162,000. There are 35,000 school children.
The water supply is well protected. The safeguards to insure pure, whole- water are four-fold: filtration, chlorination, inspection of watersheds and bacteriological check. Almost every house is connected with the sewer. A sanitary sewag e disposal plant is in operation.
New Haven has a well protected milk supply, with inspection and laboratory analysis. All milk retailed, is bottled, and either pasteurized or from tuberculin tested herds.
Diphtheria is being wiped out of the picture, toxin-antitoxin being administered to children reacting positively to the Schick test at Health Department Clinics. No child has died of this disease in more than two years.
Improved sanitation and the protection of the milk supply has reduced infantile diarrhea to an insignificant figure. There were only three deaths last year of children under two years of age from this disease.
Typhoid Fever has caused but one death in New Haven this year and there were no deaths from this disease the year before.
Smallpox deaths are now unknown in New Haven. All children are vaccinated before they are permitted to enter school and most adults are also protected.
There has been a large reduction in Tuberculosis. Hospital and sanatorium care has been provided. Tuberculin testing for the early detection of the disease in young people has been started in the schools.
Cancer deaths have increased over other years and present a real challenge to the future. A Cancer Control committee, sponsored by the New Haven Foundation is now making a thorough study of this problem. The Safety Council of the Chamber of Commerce is endeavoring to cut down the annual toll of deaths by automobiles, another present-day serious problem.