Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1910 — DISEASE AND DEATH IN INDIANA IN OCTOBER. [ARTICLE]

DISEASE AND DEATH IN INDIANA IN OCTOBER.

I he bulletin of the State Board jot Health for the month of- October. just issued, says: In October there waS an increase in the number of deaths and an increase in sickness over the corresponding month last year. Typhoid fever was reported the most prevalent disease. The ignorance which permits cholera is no worse than the ignorance which permits typhoid fever. Order of disease prevalence: Typhoid fever, tonsilitis. bronchitis, rheumatism. diphtheria and croup, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, - pulminary influenza, diarrhoea, malaria fever, broncho-pneumonia, dysentery. intermittent and remittant fever, tuberculosis, other forms, cholera morbus, measles, pneumonia. lobar; cholera infantum, whoopingcough, inflammation of bowels chickenpox. erysipelas, cerebro-spinal meningitus. smallpox, poliomelitis. puerperal fever. Deaths—The deaths numbered 2,761, rate 11.5. In same month last year 2,674 -deaths, rate 11.13. There were 500 deaths under 1 year of age, or 18 per cent of the total: 754 deaths 65 years and ov-' er or 27.3 of the total., Tuberculosis caused 326 deaths, over ten each day, Typhoid caused 159 deaths, diphtheria 51, scarlet fever 11, measles 3. whoopingcough 27, pneumonia 143. diarrhoeal diseases 189. cerebfo-spinal meningitis, 9, influenza 8, puerperal fever 14 cancer 148. violence 182, infantile paralysis 11. Cancer is increasing. «■ It is hoped infantile paralysis would not appear in Indiana, but it has come wth a vengeance. It has been reported in the following counties; Cass, Elkhart, Grant, Huntington. Miami, Pulaski. Stark, Steuben, Tippecanoe, St. ■ Joseph, Allen, Benton, Jay,* Wayne. Brown, Carroll. The only prophylaxis for this disease is to keep the children in as good health as possible. ‘ Their food should be plain. Cheap candies and all-day suckers must be avoided for. they disturb the stomach. Give the child plain.food with fruits and vegetables. Cut down meat fully one-half. Milk, fruits, welLbaked bread and eggs and rice and hominy will preserve the strength and health of any child. They must sleep in well ventilated berrooms, go to school in well ventilated schoolrooms and have a full measure of outdoor life. Regular hours, plenty of sleep and cleanliness of body. i A