Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1902 — Deaths In November. [ARTICLE]

Deaths In November.

caused 279 deaths in Indiana in November, invading hot less than 250 homes, according to the vital statistics of the State Board of Health. Of these deaths 110 were of married women between the ages of eighteen and forty, and it is estimated that they est not less than 200 orphans. The analysis of deaths by the joard, says in part: “Of the total deaths 773 or 32 per cent, were from preventable diseases, Not less than 500 homes were unnecessarily - invaded by deaths and fully 1,000 homes unnecessarily invaded by disease.” There were 825 cases of typhoid ! ever, and 146 deaths. One case out of five was fatal. The typhoid deaths occurred in 61 counties, and there was typhoid in all but 17 counties. * The total number of deaths reported 2,406. The number in the corresponding month last year was 2,402. Cancer caused 94 deaths. Smallpox for the twenty-second consecutive month, led the list as most prevalent. The number of cases in October was 208 and in November 441. There were fewer deaths however, in the last named month, the figures nineteen in October and two in November. Thirty-five counties were invaded in October and forty in November.