Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1904 — Deaths in May. [ARTICLE]

Deaths in May.

A summary of the statistics gath. ered by the State board of Health for May shows better conditions than in the month previous, though worse than those of May of last year. There were 2,071 deaths, a rate of 13.1, In the corresponding month of 1903 there were 2,421 deaths, a rate of . 11/8. Tuoerculosis caused 473 deaths, 415 being caused by the pulmonary form, the ravages of the disease made 302 orphans during the month. Tonsilitis was the most prevalent disease. Pneumonia, fourth in prevalency in April, was seventh in May. Typhoid fever oaused fortynine deaths, pneumonia 319, diphtheria twenty, scarlet fever, fourteen, diarrheal diseases thirty-one, oanreo ninety-fire, violenoe 192 and small, pox six.