MORTUARY TABLE No. 2. General Analysis of Bills of Mortality for the year ending December 31, 1874. Deaths from violence and accident reported in 1873, males 472 MORTUARY TABLE No. 3. Quarterly Report of Deaths from Zymotic Diseases and Phthisis Pulmonalis in the City of Philadelphia, for year ending December 31, 1874. DISEASES. FIRST QUARTER January, February, March...... 10,111 8 94 13... 28 30 23 12 691 SECOND QUARTER THIRD QUARTER ... April, May, June.. 4109 4 59 33 115 79 28 28 22 547 July, August, September...... 13 112 6 42 5 5 20 17 30 461 October, November, December.... 18 135 9 159 17 Total......... 5 101 15 10 605 45 467 27 354 68 115 117 179 83 74 2304 FOURTH QUARTER Total deaths from zymotic diseases (excepting croup and diarrhea) 1430 Total deaths from phthisis pulmonalis Excess of deaths from phthisis 2304 . 874 OBITUARY NOTICE OF THE LATE DR. JOHN BELL, M.D., OF BY LAURENCE TURNBULL, M.D. Died, on the evening of August 19th, 1872, of a chronic disease which he bore with patience and Christian fortitude, Dr. John Bell, of the city of Philadelphia, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. He was the associate and friend of the physicians of the old school, now gradually passing away. Dr. Bell was born in Ireland, in 1796; his aged appearance was due to his feeble state of health, but his mind was the very opposite of his body, being clear, strong, and capable of much labor. Dr. Bell came to this country with his parents, who settled in Virgina, in 1810. He was their main support until their death. After seven years' residence he was able to save a sufficient amount to fit himself as a student of medicine, and graduated in the University of Pennsylvania in the year 1817. He was looked upon as a Virginian by Professor Chapman, a native of that State, who took quite a fancy to the young graduate, and encouraged him to remain in Philadelphia. He assisted this distinguished author by numerous contributions to the Philadelphia Journal of the Medical |