Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1911 — DISEASE AND DEATH IN INDIANA IN FEBRUARY [ARTICLE]

DISEASE AND DEATH IN INDIANA IN FEBRUARY

The monthly bulletin of the State Board of Health just issued says: The deaths in February numbered 2908, rate 14. In the same month last year 2856, rate 13.4. The deaths under 1 numbered 411, or 14.1 per cent of the total. The deaths which occurred of people 65 and over numbered 980, or 33.6 per cent of the total. Tuberculosis killed 350; in the same month last year 387. Typhoid deaths numbered 36, diphtheria 33, scarlet fever 17, measles 26, whooping-cough 15, pneumonia 398, rabies 1, diarrhoael diseases 45, cerebro spinal fever 398, influenza 156, cancer 149, violence 160. All cities presented a death rate of 15.4 The country districts a rate of 12.9. The death rate of the following named cities were: Indianapolis 16.7, Evansville 19, Ft. Wayne 14.6, Terre Haute 14.5, South Bend 14, Muncie 13:5, Anderson 17.9, Richmond 10.4, Hammond 13.6, New Albany 11.9, Lafayette 20.7. Both Lafayette and Evansville had an unusual number of deaths among old people. The most prevalent disease was influenza, next tonsilitis and next bronchitis. Pneumonia was 6th in area of prevalence. Epidemics of measles and scarlet fever have appeared all over the state. Many schools were closed on account of scarlet fever. Poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) caused 4 deaths. It is feared by the State Board that this disease will become epidemic when warm weather appears and a circular will soon be published and distributed among the people, telling how to avoid the disease. , January births: (Birth reports are always a month late because the law gives twenty days in which doctors and midwives may report.) Total births, 4578. Stillbirths excluded. ' Malesi 2371, females 2207. Stillbirths 173, white 170, colored 3. White males 2329, white females 2164, colored males 42, colored females 43. State rate 20.0. Excess over death rate 5.8. Highest birth Lowest birth rate, Union 7.5. All the news in The Democrat