Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — Decrease in New York’s Death Rate. [ARTICLE]

Decrease in New York’s Death Rate.

New York’s health department was created in 1800. At that time, according to the Public Health Record, the death rate in the city was 34.92 per 1,000, with a population of 707,979. In 1900 the death rate had decreased to 21.04 per 1,000 in a population of 3,444,073. Harvard College observatory station at Arequipa, Peru, has discovered a new comet. Robbers got $1,500 from the G. & 0. Railroad station, New Albany, Miss.