Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1902 — SMALLPOX CASES DECREASE. [ARTICLE]

SMALLPOX CASES DECREASE.

Campaign Waged Against Disease Brings Notable Results. Through the statement of the smallpox situation, published in the latest issue of the United States Public Health Reports. the health department of Chicago is enabled to show the results of the campaign against this disease, begun last February by railway manager- and boards of health in the 600,000 square miles and among the 25,000.000 inhabitants of the territorj immediately tributary to Chicago. On Jan. 31 it was shown that in the thirty days following Dec. 28, 1901. there had been an increase, compared with the corresponding period of 1900-1901, of more than 900 per cent in the number of cases of smallpox reported in the group of States of which Illinois is the southern center. Between Jan. 31 and April 25 the statement shows a total of 10,598 cases reported in the Chicago territory, as against 10,404 during the corresponding period a year ago—an increase of little more than one and one-quarter per cent during the thirteen weeks, as compared with the 911 per cent increase of the first four weeks.