Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1907 — August Health In Indiana. [ARTICLE]

August Health In Indiana.

’ Indianapolis, Sept. 24. The bulletin of the State Board of Health just issued says: “The health of the state for August appears not to be so good as in the corresponding month last year. Typhoid fever sho vs a decided increase. It is reported as the first in order of prevalence, with diarrhoea second and rheumatism third.

The total number of deaths in August was 3,390, rate 14.8. In the same month last year 3,000, rate 13.3. The cities report 1,547 deaths, rate 17.6. The country reports 1,843 deaths, rate 13. The city rate is 2.8 higher than the airorageVJpr the whole state and is 4.6 higher theta tiko country rate. Consumption did its usual dam age causing 337 deaths against 351 in the corresponding month last year. Cancer, which at one time produced the same destruction aa typhoid fever, has now gone ahead or rather typhoid fever has decreased in the comparison. The cancer deaths number 149. In the corresponding month last year, 123. Violence caused 186 deaths against 194 in the preceding month of August