Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1910 — DISEASE AND DEATH IN INDIANA IN SEPTEMBER. [ARTICLE]

DISEASE AND DEATH IN INDIANA IN SEPTEMBER.

The Bulletin of the State Board of Health just published says: 1 yphoitl fever was the most prevalent disease in. September. It was also the most prevalent disease in the same month last year. The order of prevalence of certain diseases was as follows: Typhoid fever, rheumatism, tonsilitis, diarrhoea, bronchitis, tuberculosis pul., cholera morbus, malaria fever, cholera infantum, dysentery, intermitent fever, diphtheria and croup, scarlet fever, influenza, tuberculosis, other forms, whoopingcough, inflamation of bowels, pneumonia, bronchial, measles, erysipelas, pneumonia lobar, cerebro-spirtST** meningitis, puerperal fever, chickenpox, smallpox. 231 cases of diphtheria were reported from 42 counties with 27 deaths. ‘Scarlet fever caused 7 deaths and was reported from 36 counties. Measles caused 3 deaths, whooping cough 26. diarrhoeal diseases 361. These children’s diseases always increase when the schools ar& opened. This slaughter of the innocents is because proper hygienic measures for prevention are not taken when children are assembled in the schools. Every child should be medically inspected, because very frequently, seemingly well children carry infection. Typhoid fever, the disgrace of civilization, caused .138 deaths. It was reported present in all but 13 of the 92 counties in Indiana. Like sin,, this disease is a disgrace to any community. Cancer killed 137. and 232 were destroyed by violence. The city death rate was 14.7 and the country rate 10.8. Certain cities had death rates as follows: Indianapolis 14.1; Evansville 14.3; Ft. Wayne 17.6; Terre Haute 18.3 j -South Bend 17f5. Of rtie violent deaths, 28, were suicides and 4 murders. Of the suicides, 13 were women. The methods chosen were gunshots 4 men. drowning 1 man, 3 women; hanging 2 women; jumping in front of train 2 men: carbolic acid 5 men, 2 women. 1 death from hydrophobia in Perry county. - Births for August 7 total birth's 4,772; white males 2,396; white females 2,157; colored males 46; colored females 49. White stillbirths 118; Colored stillbirths 6.