Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1909 — Decrease in Death Rate. [ARTICLE]

Decrease in Death Rate.

Comparative statistics completed yesterday in the office of the State Board of Health, show that there were 36,176 deaths in Indiana during the year 1908, a decrease of 285 from tire number in 1907. Of'the dead in 1908 19,158 were men and 17018 we e women. The death rate was UJi, a decrease of .2 from the rate in 1907. Consumption caused 4,527 deaths in Indiana in 1908, of which 2,085 were males and 2,442 females. In 1907 consumption killed 4,471 people in this state—l,964 males and 2,507 females. The estimate of the Bute Board of Health is that consumption cost the people of Indiana fully $5,000,006 during the year 1908.