Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1920 — Lessened Mortality. [ARTICLE]

Lessened Mortality.

A Baltimore specialist on diphtheria is quoted as saying that the conquest of this disease in Its first stages can now be formally proclaimed. It is stated that statistics reveal that whereas formerly four out of every ten persons stricken with diphtheria died, now only four out of 100 die. It is only a ‘ comparatively few years ago that diphtheria was one of the most dreaded diseases.