Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1911 — DISEASE AND DEATH IN INDIANA IN APRIL. [ARTICLE]

DISEASE AND DEATH IN INDIANA IN APRIL.

The Bulletin of the State Board of Health just issued for April says: the deaths in April, 1911, exceeded those in April, 1910, by 218. Measles was reported as the most prevalent disease, with tonsilitis next. Scarlet fever was prevalent in many places in the state but generally in mild form, the total deaths for the month was 22, w*hile measles caused 89 deaths. The people are gradually learning that measles is a dangerous disease. Like scarlet fever it leaves bad results, and its mortality has become greater than that of scarlet fever. The cities report 1,448 deaths, rate 15.3, or 1.6 higher than the rate' for the whole state. The rural deaths numbered 1,606, with a rate of 12.6 or 1.1 less than the total rate for the state. Pulmonary tuberculosis wrought its usual destruction, 300 deaths, almost ten each day being caused by it. Infantile paralysis caused three deaths; number of cases not known. Cancer caused 134 deaths, voilence 173, whooping coug*h 30, diptheria 17, typhoid fever 40, smallpox none. Smallpox prevailed to a very considerable degree, being reported from 32*different localities. This disease does not cause alarm any more for it causes few deaths and severe cases are rare. Births forlMlarch: Birth reports are always a month late because tfhe law gives twenty days in which doctors and midwives may report. Total births, 4,901, stillbirths excluded. Stillbirths 154, white 148, colored 6. Males, 2,478; females, 2,423. White males, 2,431; white females, 2,373. Colored males, 47; colored females, 50. State rate, Pop. 2,700.876, 21.4. Northern Sanitary Sec. Pop. 927.229, rate 20.8. Highest rate, Clay county, 29.3. Central Sani- 1 tary Sec. Pop. 1,114,087, rate 20.7. Lowest rate, Union county, 11.3. Southern Sanitary Sec. Pop. 659,560, rate 23.3.