Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1885 — A Few Points from the State Board of Health. [ARTICLE]

A Few Points from the State Board of Health.

± ■ . ■—' ' ■ : The Third Annual Report of the State Board of health, has been distriblUted to the, County health Officers. The /report shows, among other interesting facts: that twenty-nine states have Boards of health; that much has been done to learn the sanitary condition of + he State of Indiana; that small pox. prevailed last year in twenty counties; and that the mortality from that disease was 100, against 213 the year before; scarlet fever, diptheria and typhoid fever had prevailed in many localities, but few deaths had occurred from them as compared with other years; that one death was caused by Eqnina or glanders, the first reported in the state. Deaths reported from Intemperance 25 Consumption 2.132 'JTotal deaths reported « Total marriages reported 18,833 Total births reported 40,334 Total number of midwives -301 Eclectic physicians *. <. 469 Homeopathic 199 Physio Medical ‘ill Regular or Allopathic ‘3,337 Not reported 354 Total number Physicians 4,470 Of the total number of births for the year, 21,173 were males, and 19,160 were females. «■ a. . " Of the total number of deaths, 3,056 occurred during the first hear of lite, and 2,331 pet ween,the ages of ope to Jive years. 10 persons at reported |o ■ have, been upwards ot- 100 at the»im' of death. ' ‘