Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1909 — DISEASE AND DEATH IN INDIANA IN OCTOBER. [ARTICLE]

DISEASE AND DEATH IN INDIANA IN OCTOBER.

The Monthly Report of the State Board of Health, just compiled from the statistics and - reports of health officers in all parts of the state says: Typhoid fever was reported as the most prevalent disease. Scarlet fever has prevailed in mild form In many parts as the state, but no serious specimens have been reported. There were 18 deaths from the disease. The following order of prevalence existed: Typhoid fever, tonsllltls, bronchitis, rheumatism, diphtheria and croup, scarlet fever, intermitent-fever, pneumonia, diarrhoea, influenza, plueritis, measles, inflamatlon of the bowels, dysentery, whoopingcough, chickenpox, cholera morbus, erysipelas, typho-malaria fever, smallpox, cholera Infantum, cerebro spinal meningitis, puerperal fever.

The total number of deaths was 2,831, rate 12.2 as against 2,674, rate 11.5 in October last year. 357, or 13.3 per cent of the total deaths were among Infants under 1 year of age, and 835, or 30.7 per cent were deaths among people 65 and over. Consumption caused 307 deaths, typhoid 155, disphtheria 80, scarlet fever 18, whoopingcough 13, pneumonia 165, diarrhoeal disease 132, cerebro spinal meningitis 10, influenza 5, puerperal fever 7, cancer 143, and vollence 190. Pneumonia prevailed in every county in the state. There were 165 deaths. Marion county had 24 deaths from this disease, Lake county had 12 and Elkhart 5. Pneumonia prevailed to a greater degree in the central counties of the state than in the northern or southern counties. Consumption wrought its usual havoc, 307 deaths in all, 153 males, 154 females. 197 or 64 per cent of the consumption deaths were of people in the age period of 15-50. The city death rate was 15.3 and the country death rate 10.2. The death rates of certain cities were: Indianapolis 13.4; Evansville 16.6; Ft. Wayne 13.4; Terre Haute 20.9; South Bend 20; Anderson 15.7; Columbus 16-5 ; East . Chicago 34.3; Elkhart 22.1; Hammond 18.2; Lafayette 24.5.