Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — Decline of Mortality in Prussia. [ARTICLE]

Decline of Mortality in Prussia.

A German observer has shown for northern Germany a remarkable decline in the mortality from typhoid fever and diarrhoea, and in the Aaathn after surgical operations In hospitals doubtless influenced by antiseptic methods and by new and sanitary buildings, which lias been observed in Prnssla and in Germany generally,, since the sanitary awakening of twenty years ago. In the successive quinquennial, from 1875 to 1894, the death rates per 10,000 living from typhoid fever were 6.17, 4.99, 2.78 and 1.86, and those from diarrhoea, 1.63, 1.59, 0.45 and 0.3.