100 PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS. The statistics of 1900 show that 3,164 persons died of pulmonary tuberculosis, this number being 9.47 per cent. of the total number of deaths, or 1 in every 10.5 deaths. Between the country and the cities the pulmonary tuberculosis deaths were divided as follows: Cities, 1,289; country, 1,875; the rates per 100,000 being respectively, 152.1 and 112.3. In this year, therefore, the cities suffered most from this disease. When considered by ages, we find that the destruction by this disease is greatest from twenty to twenty-five, as 550 of the 3,164 200 300 400 500 TOO 200 DIAGRAM SHOWING DEATHS FROM PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS, YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1900, BY MONTHS. pulmonary tuberculosis deaths, or 17.3 per cent. were at this age. The next greatest period was from twenty-five to thirty, then comes thirty to thirty-five and then thirty-five to forty. Between twenty-five and forty there were 1,672 deaths, or 52.8 per cent. of the total. When it is remembered that twenty-five to forty is the most useful and productive period of life, we plainly see what a monstrous enemy we have to deal with in pulmonary tuberculosis. Į JĮ Į Į ? Į ? ? J J ě ĕ Typhoid is still autumnal fever in Indiana, for we re deaths from it in September and 322 in October, ma TYPHOID FEVER. The number of deaths from typhoid in 1900 was 1,431, making a death rate of 56.8 per 100,000, or 4.03 per cent. of the total deaths. The diagram plainly shows the distribution as to ages, the highest rate being between fifteen and twenty years, and the next highest twenty to twenty-five. For the period fifteen to thirty, there were 540 typhoid deaths, or 38.2 per cent. of all those caused by the disease. The distribution as to rural and urban was: Urban, 412, a rate of 48.6 per 100,000; rural, 1,019, a rate of 61. DIAGRAM SHOWING DEATHS FROM TYPHOID FEVER IN INDIANA, BY MONTHS, YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1900. deaths for the two months, or 40 per cent. of the total typhoid deaths, and, if November is added, we record 785 deaths for the three months, or 54.8 per cent. of the total number. We are then fully aware in what months the slaughter from this filth disease is greatest. DIAGRAM SHOWING DEATHS FROM TYPHOID FEVER IN INDIANA, BY AGES, YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1900. |