Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1905 — Statistics of Consumption. [ARTICLE]

Statistics of Consumption.

The total number of deaths from consumption in Indiana in 1094 was 4,739. In 1903 tbe number was 4,412, There wap, llv r. f r-», an increase in tbe last year of 327. The female consumptives deaths ia 1904 numbered 2 781 and the male 1951. Itisusud for the female deaths to te mt re than the male, and this is explained fry th j fact that they live more in the house and consumption is a house disease.