Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1901 — Decrease in New York’s Death Rate. [ARTICLE]

Decrease in New York’s Death Rate.

New' York's health .department was created in 1866. At that time, according to the Public Health Record, the death rate in the city was 34.92 per 1,000, with a population of 767,979. In 1900 the death rate had decreased to 21.04 per 1,000 in a population of 3,444,675. y Harvard College observatory station at Arequlpa, Peru, has discovered a’new comet. _____ Robbers got $1,500 from the G. & (k Railroad station, New Albany, Miss.