Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1899 — A State Sanitorium. [ARTICLE]

A State Sanitorium.

In his annual report, filed with Governor Mount last week, Dr. JN. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, recommends the establishment of a state sanatorium for indigent consumptives and a laboratory of hygiene, to cost SIO,OOO. The reports show the deaths in the state from cummunicable diseases to have been as follows: Tuberculosis, 2,279; diarrhoeal diseases, 537, 309 of which were children under five years of age; diptheria, 432; scarlet fever, 108; typhoid fever, 667; smallpox, 1; cerebro-spina menigitis, 382. Because of a lack of funds Dr. Hurty says the probabilities are that the pure food law and the law against the pollution of streams will remain unenforced.