Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-01-23
Do NOI liz
Some Comparative Figures on Mar
shalltown's Death Rate for
Past Five Years.
City More Healthful Nov Than Four
and Five Years ago, Regard
less Of Claims.
Interesting Statistics Compiled by
Secretary Ruhee, Of Riverside
Cemetery Association

hcClctdly 1luEce, VI ie1soi oiuo
Cemetery Association
Secretary $. W. Rubae, Of the Mar
shall Cemetery Association, has taken
pains 10 compile, at the request o. the
Tins Republican, set q figures
Showing the death rate Of AIarshall- 4
town during he past tiYs years. prior
10 and including the yar iass closed.
The compilation was male more par
ticulariy TO snow thai M city s death
rate mas decreased WITHIN the past few
years. in considerations q tne advance
in Regulation. over Pr eas years
w,nsn, on the other hand statements 81
the contrary have been made The
Deaths by typhoid tsver last winter, al
I tho not many. had tlsii fec upon the
city in other places, where exaggerated
reports were cigeuiated d an
asst pndinsly high death rate seere-
ltary Rubee's figures ase Authentic and.
based upon the records ef the city and
/ tne ceineteryT ASSOCIATION. The first
year taken in the comparison is 1895,
when seventy-nine adults We're buried
| III Riverside. Children under y years
who were Inferred during ttiat year
numbered iifts four. OF this aggreg;ite
number. l333, thirty-t.lree @ei's nqn-
residents Of the city their remains be-
] ing shipped here fOI burial tf.us leaT
Al 4.r
}even 100 Peffibone & COS itsetory
1896 which is reeognized as very cons
lation than ia most cstiss, ~ to each
name was lls4o.
In 1886 l2l adults We're inferred ii
lunder II years of age total Of US.
outside points. making the cstyls t9tal
1876
For the years 1se7-S the directory IS
crease Glib souls it the No .ears. and
in thase two years the dsath rate was
nluah smaller than ID 1856 Tie yeai
issl sllfvis io4 esatn Of adqi s9itS
lsthree anon@ e.lilG2en, j. tos u AZ
with twenty mine flem oussia p#inis
gr lis daatns in the city In 1888 III
l5statil rete WAS pi ss III leliins
3that period lSut niisa -ffsuf adflg Wegi
Iinterrea in Riverside Ais,t iifgg- fh.e,
s Eehildssn. 4 teIal Of ~, with thirty Q
I jthe aYeye c@miMg from out afst!.e cir
Z. III 1899, which has been elaitasG as tn
worst year for deaths IA mary. he rec
oi,(is SHOW but eieNen more than g %
\ ard tMeve more .ilasn in 9S. In rsSfiit
II IS hardly thar. fa In 1883 taese Mss
fors. seven podi4 silirpesi iista the <it
: ard in q ard IS tnere Nree III
twenty ss thirty tivei,
: The total aunii Of bufials gas Yea
). were Ia adults and th5r;g chi
:. dren. whieh. afta deAGcting those sssr
here who died { distant ppSrfs, leaSf
the citys death rate lpat ~ lhes
figures show ~ ts-seven sss death
:, last year as compared to lS9e Mile j
population the eirs has Increased -
persons stree 1856. Thus it VII 3a see
!. that according to the wonderful III
I Ierease in i@pulatan the dsatn rats VA
7 smaller iii proportion TO any tlNe li'ryl
a Gus Years Thus fai. in 1909 and dui
( in. the last six months IN 1899. til
q death rate has been eXcesdingly SINAI
So far this YEAR one undertake.
e of TIE city has averaged neali
s one death per day, but q great
n percentage of them We're old soldiers q
the Home who are rot included IN 81
:, above figures aud deaths ia surroans
J. ing country towns. Januars- Is usliaIl
T a busy month with undertasSers. hut :
far the deaths in the city proper haS
! been very few indeed.