Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia for the Year Ended June 30, 1898, Vol. 3: Health Department Four hundred and twenty-nine deaths were attributed to diseases of the digestive organs; that is, per cent Of the total mortality, and a death rate Of In 308 of these cases the seat Of disease was the intestinal tract proper, while in 62 it was located in the liver. There were 18 fatal cases Of appendicitis (death rate, Thirteen deaths were due to strangulated hernias, and 26 to intestinal Obstruction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.