TYPHOID FEVER BY AGES. After five years of age typhoid fever attacks become more frequent, increasing from ten to fifteen, and still further increasing from fifteen to twenty, and then a decline commences from twenty to twenty-five, but still during this period there are more deaths than for any other except fifteen to twenty. Between twenty-five and thirty, and up to forty, the disease is quite as destructive as for the period five to ten. After forty the fatalities of typhoid decline. The chances for having typhoid after fifty are very small. It is important to note that from fifteen to thirty, the very prime and blossom of life, is the most dangerous for this disease. DIARRHEAL DISEASES. The total deaths from diarrheal diseases of those under five years of age was 2,047, a rate of 81.3 per 100,000, or 5.7 per cent. of the total of all deaths. The following diagram shows that this class of diseases was most destructive in July, August and September, August showing the highest rate. As to urban and rural, we have to record for the former 721 deaths, a rate of 85 per 100,000, and for the latter 1,326, a rate of 78.2. DIAGRAM SHOWING DEATHS FROM INFANTILE DIARRHEA IN INDIANA, BY MONTHS, YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1900. Jan. 100 200 300 The deaths from diarrheal diseases in those above five years of age, and the distribution as to months are shown in the following diagram: DIAGRAM SHOWING DEATHS FROM ENTERITIS AND DIARRHEA ABOVE FIVE YEARS OLD, IN INDIANA, BY MONTHS, YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1900. In considering deaths from pneumonia by ages it appears that this disease was more destructive in 1900 in early infancy than at ny other period, for there were 370 deaths from this cause under 600 PNEUMONIA. The total number of deaths from pneumonia in 1900 was 3,061. March showed the greatest number, namely, 401; the smallest occurred in September, namely, 61. The accompanying diagram shows the incidence of pneumonia deaths by months: DIAGRAM SHOWING DEATHS FROM PNEUMONIA BY MONTHS, FOR YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1900. 600 |