Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1918 — CAUSE THIRD OF DEATHS [ARTICLE]

CAUSE THIRD OF DEATHS

Heart Disease, Tuberculosis and Pneumonia Are Most Fatal, According to Statistics. Washington. —Nearly a third of a million deaths reported to the United States during 1916 were caused by heart disease, tuberculosis and pneumonia. Figures made public by the census bureau, predicted on vital statistics regarding 70 per cent-of the country’s, population, sWsMhe deaths caused by heart disease numbered 114,171, tuberculosis, 101,396, and pneumonia, 98,334. Accidental deaths numbering 60,071 are Ascribed chiefly to railroad and automobile accidents. There were 10,162 suicides last year.