Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1902 — Deaths from Preventable Diseases. [ARTICLE]

Deaths from Preventable Diseases.

Dr, Hurty. secretary of the State Board of Health, has prepared for his annual report a table showing the deaths in Indiana in 1901 from alleged preventable diseases. The total shown on the table is 9,377. Consumption heads the list, as always, with 4,662 deaths; 1,198 from typhoid fever, 149 from scarlet fever, 554 from diphteria, 2,501 from diarrheal diseases, 292 from puerperal fever; and smallpox about which more noise was made than all the rest, caused only 21 deaths. Of those dying from pulmonary tuberculosis the greatest number died [in April and the least in September. The greatest number of deaths from tuberculosis, not pulmonary, was in February. Most of those who died from pulmonary tuberculosis were between the ages of 20 and 25.