Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1909 — MARCH HEALTH REPORT. [ARTICLE]

MARCH HEALTH REPORT.

Increase In Deaths and Sickness Over Same Month Last Year. The reports to the State Board of Health for March show there was an increase of deaths and sickness over the corresponding month last year. The deaths in March, 1908, numbered 3,201; in 1909 the number was 3,444. The death rates were, respectively, 14.8 and 13.8. The most prevalent disease was tonsilltls and the second in the list was pneumonia. In the corresponding month last year influenza was first and pneumonia fifth. There were 463 deaths from pneumonia In March, 1908, and 574 in March, 1909, an Increase of 23.9 per cent. “A blustering, cold M«rch will always drive people indoors and this means an increase in pneumonia,” says Dr. J. N. Hurty secretary of the board. The order of prevalence of diseases was as follows: Tonsilltls, pneumpnla, Influenza, bronchitis, rheumatism, measles, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, whooping cough, diarrhoea, Intermittent fever, diphtheria, chickenpox, erysipelas, smallpox, inflamation of bowels, dysentery, puerperal fever, cholera morbus, cerebro spinal meningitis, cholera infantum, typho-malarlal fever. The number of cases of smallpox reported was 121, with no deaths. The number in March, 1908, was 284', with 2 deaths. There were 168 cases of typhoid fever, with 31

deaths, as compared with 245 cases and 45 deaths in the corresponding month last year. Consumption caused 410 deaths. The disease killed 36 fathers in the age period of 18 years to 40 years, and 71 mothers in the same age period. Violence, 10 murders, 33 suicides and the remainder accidents. During the spring every one would be benefited by taking Foley’s Kidney Remedy. It furnishes a needed tonic to the kidneys after the extra strain of winter, and it purifies the blood by stimulating the kidneys, and causing them to eliminate the impurities from it. Foley’s Kidney Remedy imparts new life and vigor. Pleasant to take. A. F. Long.