Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1911 — Disease and Death in Indiana for August. [ARTICLE]

Disease and Death in Indiana for August.

Mortality: The Monthly Bulletin of the State Board of Health,-giving the vital statistics for August, says: Compared with August, 1910, there were 581 fewer deaths. Sickness reports show about the same decrease was / maintained. Total number of deaths August, 1911, 2,653, death rate 11.5. In the same, month last year total deaths 3,234, rate 13.5. Infant deaths, under 1 year 457; between 1 and under 3, 168. The old people suffered severely, 799 over 65 years of age dying. Tuberculosis wrought its usual awful havoc, 318 deaths. Typhoid fever claimed 102, diphtheria 12, whoopingcough 26, pneumonia 62, diarrhoeal diseases 260 under 2 years of age. Poliomyelitis caused 7 deaths, 3, cancer 144, violence 261. The city death rate was 13.7 and rural 9.9. The death rates of the following prominent cities were: Indianapolis 14.6, Evansville 10.6, Ft. Wayne 13.2, Terre Haute 12.9; South Bend 13.7, Muncie 13.6, Anderson 13.2, Richmond 11.1, Hammnod 16.8, New Albany 13.1, Lafayette 15.2.

Morbidity: Typhoid fever was reported as the most prevalent dangerous disease, and following in order of prevalence: Typhoid fever, diarrhoea, pulmonary tuberculosis, rheumatism, tonsilitis, cholera morbus, bronchitis, scarlet fever, cholera infantum, and croup, dysentery. Poliomelitis: Alien county 1 death, Benton 1, Clay, Montgomery 2, Tippecanoe 1, White Smallpox: 31 cases in 12 counties, no deaths. July births: Total births 4,730 (stillbirths excluded.) Males, 2,426; females, 2,304. White males 2,391, white females, 2*262. Colored births, 77. males 3$ females 42. Stillbirths 128—white 121, colored 7. Northern sanitary section, population 927,229, rate 19.9. Central sanitary sec., pop. 1,114,087, rate 20.8. Southern sanitary sec., pop. 659,560, rate 21.1. State rate 20.6. Highest rate, Starke, 35.5. Lowest rate, Franklin, 13,0.