Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1903 — The State Mortuary Record. [ARTICLE]

The State Mortuary Record.

The monthly bulletin of the State Board of health for July says: “The public health in July in Indiana was not so good as in June, but was slightly better than in July of 1902. “Stnalsjpox shows a marked decrease as compared with the corresponding month last year, the. figures being. July, 1902, 502 oases with 15 deaths in 46 oounties; July, 1903, 104 oases with four deaths in 23 counties. “The number of deaths was 2,765, an annual rate per 1.000 of 12.9. In the same month last year there were 2.907 deaths, a rate of 13.6. Of the total number of deaths’ 541, or 20.7 per cent, were 65 and over. * ( 4fbe deaths from filth and food poisoning diseases were: Typhoid fever, 63; cholera infantum, djsentery and diarrhoea, 313. Oanoer caused 108 deaths, violence 199, consumption 315, influenza 'll diphtheria 13, measles 6. “The murders numbered 13, and of these ten were from mob violenoe and three by sknlls being crushed. Of the suioides 30 in number, 22 were males and 8 females.”