Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1896 — Terrible Ravages of Consumption. [ARTICLE]

Terrible Ravages of Consumption.

In this country, according to the latest statistics, more people die from consumption than any other disease. In the census year of 1889-90 there were over 102,000 deaths from the disease. In England and Whies from 50,000 to 60,000 people die annually from coo. sumption, and another 50,000 from pther tuberculous diseases. In the thirty-three years from 1848 to 1880, the number of deaths registered as due to phthisis, or consumption of the lungs, was 1,702,027, the majority of patients being comparatively young adults.