Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1909 — Board of health Issues Bulletin For Month of June. [ARTICLE]

Board of health Issues Bulletin For Month of June.

The monthly bulletin of the state board of health, just issued, records 2,507 deaths for June, a rate for the state of 11.1 against 2,832 deaths for the corresponding month last year, with a rate of 12.2. The deaths in May were 1,739, with a rate of 12. IP the total city population the deaths numbered 1,194, with a rate of 13.8, or six-tenths greater than for the corresponding month one year ago. The chief causes of deaths were as follows: Tuberculolis, 389; pneumonia, 72; typhoid fever, 34; diphtheria, 2; violence, 200. The deaths by violence were distributed as follows: Murder, 7; suicides, 38; accidents, 155, In distribution rheumatism took first place. Diarrheal diseases, which occupied seventh place in May, jumped to second place in June. Birth returns for May, which are always one month late because of the law which gives physicians and midwives twenty days for reporting, show a total of 4,191, of which 2,212 were males. The total birth rate was 18, an excess of 6.9 over the death rate for the same month. The highest rate, 26.9, was in Sullivan county, while the lowest rate, 4.4, was in Pulaski county.