Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1899 — Health Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Health Statistics.

/From the report of the State Board of Health for quarter ending June 30,1899. We gather the following statistics: The whole number of births is given at 7,395, the number of deaths being 4,889. Huntihgton, Jefferson, Miami and Pike counties report births of triplets. The reports in detail show the deaths to be divided among causes, as follows: Phthisis, 615; oholera infantum, 30; oerbro spinal meningitis, 117; typhoid fever, 74 (14 more than in the corresponding quarter of last year;) emallpox 3, out of 240 oases. Of the births, 3,765 were white males; 3,499 Were white females; 45 were colored males; 56 were colored females; 141 were still born; 117 were illegitimate and 89 plural. There were 5,267 marriages, of whioh 95 were among colored people.