Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1905 — Board of Health Bulletin. [ARTICLE]

Board of Health Bulletin.

Thelndisna Board of [Health bulletiuffor .January has just baen received foThe of death? in the state was 3,309 and the annual death rate 14,7. Some important causes cf death were. Pulmonary tuberculosis, 362; other forms [of tuberculosis. 31; typhoid fever, f,50 diphteria, 29; scarlet fever,[l7! whooping cough, 13; pneumonia, 588! diarbeoeal diseatee, 59; cerebreo spinal meningitis, 28; influenza, 4 114; puerperal septicaemia, 19; oanoer, 99; violence, 129; smallpox, 7 Jasper county had only 10 deaths and a death rate of 7.5 Only one other county in the state bad a lower rate, namely Vermillior with a rate of 6.3.