Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1908 — INCREASED DEATH RATE IN APRIL. [ARTICLE]

INCREASED DEATH RATE IN APRIL.

The tabulations of the reports for April by the State Board of Health show the health of the state was not as good as in the corresponding month last year. The total number of deaths was 2,945, rate 13.2. In April, 1907, 2,813. rate 12.7. Rheumatism was the most prevalent disease. Violence caused 154 deaths, 111 males and 43 females; 6 murders, 33 suicides and 115 accidental. Nine of the suicides chose gunshots, 9 carbolic acid, 2 drowning, 2 threw themselves under railway trains and 11 by poison. The city death rate was 16.5 and the country death rate 11.3.