
INDIANA DOCTOR'S DEATHS
INDIANA DEATHS
Indianapolis,
Ind. Oct 31
During September there were 4,599
births in Indiana, according to the
monthly report of the state board of health. Of the total number 2,359
were males and 2,240 were females. the state birth rate was18.17 per
cent Colored births totaled 10%. the highest birth rate in the state
was in Pulaski county with 9.8 per cent. the lowest was 8.6 in Ripley
county.
The total number of deaths during the
month, the report shows, was
2,364, the state death rate being 9.6 per cent, a decrease of 1.4 per
cent from September, 1918.
There were twenty-seven suicides
during September, eighteen being make
and nine females. Homicides numbered twelve.
Typhoid fever was the most prevalent
infectious disease, but
tuberculosis caused the most deaths, 203 in number, the report shows