Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1902 — June Health Report. [ARTICLE]

June Health Report.

The report ot the State Board of Health fr»r June is now published. There were 2,164 deaths in the state during the month, miking an annual death rate of 10.4 Some important causes of death were as follows: Pulmonary tuberculosis, 253; other forms of tuberculosis, 33; typhoid fever, 29: diphtheria, 10; scarlet fever, 3; measles, 9; whooping cough, 13; pneumonia, 83; diarrhoeal diseases, 98; oerebro-spinal meningitis, 12; influenza, 5; cancer, 93; violence, 158; smallpox, 2. i Smallpox was the most prevalent J disease, there being 570 oases, in 60 counties. Yet there were only two deaths Which fact, it seems to us, provestbat it must either be a marvellously mild form of the disease or else that modern medical science has so robbed the disease of its dangers that there is no longer any occasion to get into such panics about as people do. The same number of cases of measles or whooping cough would doubtless have caused many more deaths. Jasper county shares with Carroll the orivilege of having the lowest death rates of any counties in the state. Jasper had 5 deaths and Carrol 7 and the death rate in both was only 4.2. If this rate of mortality were never exceeded the average length of life in Jasper county would be 238 years. Which would mean some very tedious waits on the part of sons to inherit the cash of their sires.