Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1911 — Patriotic Service. [ARTICLE]

Patriotic Service.

At the union vesper service next Sunday evening Mr. Philip Blue and Mr. W. H. Parkinson will speak and Mrs. Geo. W. Reed will sing. Everyone is most cordially invited. Poliomyelitis, or infantile paralysis, caused the death of seven Indiana children during May, according to the current report of the state board of health. The youngest victim. In Jackson county, was twenty-six days old, and the oldest, in White county, was three years old. Other counties In which deaths were caused by the disease were Allen, Huntington, Lake, Fountain and Spencer The total deaths reported from all the state was 2,686, the state rate being 11.2. The rate last year was 11.7. Measles was the prevailing disease, followed in order by rheumatism, tonsilitis, scarlet fever and bronchitis. The chief causes of death and the number caused by each disease were: ~ Dtptherta, 9; typhoid fever, 29; scarlet fever, 16; pulmonary tuberculosis* 288; measles, 38 ; whooping cough, 48; 167; cerebro-spinal fever, 5; influenza. 6; puerperal fever, 24; cancer, 141; violence, 230.