Deaths 1887


 

Deaths

Registered in Natick, 1887

Date

Name

Age

Disease or Cause of Death

   

Y

M

D

 

January 8

Lucy Pratt

68

2

 

Phthisis

11

Isaac Foster Bellows

80

10

7

Old age

17

Patrick F. Buckley

1

11

14

Pneumonia

18

Mary Dowd

80

   

Bright's disease

26

Thomas Murray

13

   

Phthisis

29

McCorrison child

     

stillborn

15

Almaria C. Mulligan

61

4

 

Pneumonia

February 2

Eliphalet E. Kinsman

61

10

21

Pneu-paralysis

4

Dennis McGrath

 

8

3

Debility resulting from putassis

9

Julia Skahill

21

   

Phthisis

19

Alice Lydia Russell

22

5

17

Phthisis

19

Amherst Messinger

92

3

24

Heart failure

March 1

Ann Maria Whiting

79

1

2

Cancer of uterus

1

Francis O'Brien

   

1

Inanition

3

Unknown male infant found in box near Worcester turnpike

5

Lucretia Campbell

36

 

18

General debility

5

Patrick H. Murphy

36

   

Disease of liver

15

Michael Barnicle

 

8

3

Convulsions

15

John A. Doke

87

2

1

Old age

16

Mary Bacon Perry

74

5

22

Disease of right hemiphlegia and heart

6

Timothy Carey

60

   

Phthisis

18

Joseph K. Mills

69

9

4

Apoplexy

20

Jeremiah Curten

one hour

Inanition

21

William H. Griffin

24

9

21

Consumption

22

Ada Eileen Copithorn

2

4

 

Capillary bronchitis

26

Mary A. Foley

8

5

 

Pneumonia

26

Walter M. Hume

 

1

 

Marasmus

April 1

Mary Counihan

52

11

25

Heart disease

3

Charles Woodworth

76

1

22

Old age

8

O'Brien child

     

asthenia

9

Joseph F. Leach

78

11

 

Cystitis

9

Elizabeth C. Williams

 

6

15

Unknown

11

Ephraim Loker

83

3

28

Consumption

11

Alice A. Boardman

8

8

4

Diabetes mellitus

11

Charles Dempsey

     

Congenital cyanosis

13

Michael Casey

40

   

Cirrhosis of liver

20

Warren L. Hume

 

1

24

Abcess

21

Mary Moran

53

   

Heart disease

21

Belger child

     

Asthenia

22

Mary Slamin

48

   

Cancer of womb

22

George Frances Boinay

 

5

2

Hydrocephalus

23

John W. Brennan

31

   

Pneumonia

24

Thomas Ahearn

66

   

Pneumonia

25

Bridget A. Moran

5

5

26

Capillary bronchitis

27

William A. Cutler

52

7

 

Disease of liver, heart and kidneys, chronic

27

Carrie B. Winn

22

3

 

Tuberculosis

29

Eddie Moran

7

5

29

Capillary bronchitis chronic from whooping cough

29

Mary Sheehan

97

   

Old age

30

Gilbert A. Brown

26

4

6

Apoplexy

May 2

Mary E. Fairbanks

78

1

 

Disease of heart

4

Hannah Kennedy

 

7

22

Whooping cough

9

Munn child

     

Still born

9

Catherine Munn

37

   

Placenta previa

19

Olive H. Rand

75

9

16

Disease of liver

19

Margaret McCann

75

   

Phthisis

19

Mary Ahern

63

   

Phthisis

21

Wyman Fay

77

10

 

Gangrena maligna

22

Thomas K. Brannagan

3

1

12

Disease of brain

23

Mary O'Brien

1

4

 

Accidental drowning in a tub of water

26

Blanche B. Hanson

   

23

Marasmus

26

Charlie Heinlein

11

7

20

General debility

June 12

Herbert L. Clement

21

6

 

Accidental drowning in Morse pond

13

Jemima Waters

73

9

 

Inanition

15

John H. Slamin

1

   

Whooping cough

16

Jane Welch

46

   

Cirrhosis of liver

20

Thomas Ahern

21

   

Phthisis

26

Rebecca M. Barker

70

1

 

General debility

27

David Finn

79

   

Diarrhoea

29

Madison Loring

76

6

 

Paralysis

29

Edward Cowhey

19

8

 

Phthisis

July 3

Patrick T. Doherty

30

5

5

Drowning in mud pond, suicidal

6

Olive L. Child

46

2

11

Cancer

7

Charles Fair

76

10

21

Apoplexy and paralysis

13

Howard S. Hudson

2

6

10

Entero colitis

15

Mary Louise Lettig

 

5

5

Cholera infantum

16

Thomas F. Ford

23

   

Phthisis

16

Frank Shea

 

9

6

Cholera infantum

17

Nellie Ahern

 

11

 

Entero colitis

19

Thomas Donnellon

44

   

Dysentery

21

John Mansfield

94

4

11

Dysentery

22

George Howe

67

9

 

General traumatic paralysis

22

Ellen Donahoe

 

7

7

Marasmus

23

Jane A. Davis

76

1

2

Dysentery

25

Lillian Anna Randall

 

1

7

Inanition with diarrhoea

29

Martha F. Mitchell

46

6

11

Consumption

29

Richard Branagan

80

   

Old age (no physician)

31

Artemus Bond

93

6

25

Old age (no physician)

August 2

Ichabod B. Hayes

67

1

 

Dysentery

2

Lillian E. Perry

 

9

2

Brain injury

3

George England Clement

 

4

 

Marasmus

6

Frank Hartfield

   

10

Premature birth

6

Mary Janet A. Clink

26

 

8

Phthisis

7

Frances Annie Pierce

   

16

Inanition

9

James G. Ellery

61

6

 

Asthma and hemorrhage of lungs

10

Emmeline A. Walker

79

10

21

Railroad accident

12

Angelia S. Carr

59

   

Chronic catarrahal pneu.

12

Bessie Frances Hasson

 

3

29

Cholera infantum

13

Edward F. McNeil

 

11

1

Cholera infantum

14

James Fitzgibbons

50

   

Enteritis

15

Willis child

3 hours

Cyanosis

16

Minnie F. Alley

 

9

2

Enteritis

18

Patrick H. O'Leary

 

8

15

Cholera infantum

20

Catherine A. Shannon

   

21

Asthenia

21

Ada A. Munroe

11

1

6

Tubercular meng'is

24

William O'Connell

49

1

8

Phthisis

28

Elijah B. Underwood

53

6

21

Rupture of urethra

September 1

Carrie L. Hobbs

 

2

 

Cholera infantum

1

Alice Curran

82

   

General debility

4

John C. Cooper

 

6

20

Marasmus

6

Patience M. Stevens

51

7

 

Perforation of bowel

9

Elliot P. Schmidt

17

1

20

Typhoid fever

10

Alice G. Buckley

 

11

 

Diarrhorea

11

Mary F. Holbrook

70

9

4

Natural causes

15

John Fanning

35

   

Phthisis

17

Sarah Underwood

69

10

12

Heart disease

17

Sharronton B. Hayes

65

9

 

Uraemia

22

Annie Naphin

-

-

-

Heart trouble

22

Unknown man

about 26

Railroad injury

22

Quigley child

   

1

Asthenia

23

Patrick Moran

70

   

Consumption

October 2

Clara M. Swallow

26

5

2

Carcinoma

4

Dora May Ingraham

2

11

6

Scarletinal nephritis

5

James P. Slamin

25

3

 

Phthisis

15

George W. Williams

54

   

Pneumonia

15

Harry Edward Ingraham

1

11

 

Scarlatinal meng's

21

Daniel R. Mills

63

5

 

Valvular disease of heart

29

Martha B. Hall

25

   

Epileptic mania, gen'al marasmic disease

November 1

Lizzie A. Coolidge

24

5

21

Tubercular phthisis

1

William H. Cassidy

 

8

 

Disease of brain

6

George Hall

56

8

 

Phthisis

9

John H. White

21

   

Consumption

12

Walter S. Hildreth

   

24

Inanition

13

Frederick Hintz

71

11

22

Heart disease

15

Frances L. Millett

56

   

Heart disease

16

Amos B. Fox

51

11

 

Phthisis

27

William Coolidge

86

   

Senectus ultima

28

Emma Knights

 

1

5

Asthenia congenital

December 4

Ingalls child

26 hours

Premature birth

8

John W. Quirk

5

4

 

Laryngitis

9

William Henry Hickox

34

9

14

Phthisis

21

George C. Ward

33

9

 

Paralysis of heart

25

Whitney child

1 hour

Cyanosis

31

Melinda Beal

30

   

Gen. septic. infection retro pharyngeal abcess

Males, 81; Females, 64; Total, 145, againt 116 for 1886. The increase (29) is due largely to the extrordinary number of aged persons who departed the past year. Not less than forty-four had reached the age of sixty years and upwards. Thirty had survived beyond the traditional three-score-and ten. Eleven has passed into the eighties, while four--Amherst Messinger, Artemas Bond, John Mansfield, and Mary Sheehan--were permitted to abide in this vale of tears far beyond their ninetieth birthday before the summons came to join the invisible majority. Remembering that this unusual mortality among old people (44) is nearly one-third of the total for 1887 (145), and that this aggregate is still less than the total for 1885 (159), it will be readily seen that Natick is a healthy town. On the basis of our population, carefully estimated, with due allowance for the increase in births and marriages, the percentage of deaths in Natick is a little less than fifteen in 1,000--a rate far below the average of the cities and towns of corresponding size in this Commonwealth. For sanitary purposes, our town is admirably located, and while the officials in charge, seconded by the public spirit of the citizens, continue their solicitude for the cleanliness, drainage and purity of the water supply of Natick, we need have little fear of any serious visitation of epidemic disease.