Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1915 — Hiking Bast Grippe Killer. [ARTICLE]

Hiking Bast Grippe Killer.

The epidemic of influenza that has been troubling the city for nearly a month continued last week, according to a mortality bulletin issued yesterday by the board of health. The statement says there were 35 deaths in the city last week from this cause, or 20< more than the number for a single week of 1914. Deputy Health Commissioner Emerson says the best way to avoid catching influenza is to walk a mile in the open air twice a day. It will add ten years to a person’s life, the doctor asserts. The number of deaths reported during the week .?as x,778, compared with 1,565 in the corresponding week of 1914, the death rate increasing from 14.63 to 15.98 per 1,000 of population. Despite the epidemic of influenza the death rate for the first 16 weeks of the year, 14.66, is .81 below themortality for a similar period of 1914. —New York Sun.