The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-08-02

Features
I0o0O More Births Than Deaths IN lSO6!.
r,p Farb If Al Babes die Before Year Old State Stdtsi

,.ore almost 10 600 more births than deaths
iana according to the figures compiled py NJ. :. =.
% secretary of the state board OF he5ilu M le vi 90 S
s'd - 200 rate II Il and the death numbered o.
a 80 ~ : The number of marriages reported was
!. So 0 the births % 469 were males ana Il ool le
- The white males numbered 23,Ol3 ana Ine COZ
eS l56 The white females numbered Zl'4lo anu 'N'
.rIorad --Gr, females. 4l3 The report follows: oeo
1j rros number of births occurred IN October 4'Eoo
j ~ .5lest number in June 3255. The natlonally
m parents is Of interest me & Aefc% etbare 3s0 779
+brs had had two children 1909 three chiiqIeh, co.
M Idren 1888 five children, 2352 SIX children oa5 aa
n children l2S eight children go mne c9HLe anI md
mrhildren 354 eleven children 100 tWeNe ciii Gil '''N
=, AGE OF PARENTS III
A. ~ the aoe Of parents: Six hundred ana Jofty elghe
thor and 4795 mothers under twenty Years oL age
: L o ,,eriod of fifty to sixty there were 30
| IA - Totbers In the period sixty TO seventy ueig
% M fathers but no mothers, and IN the age pelou
t - a;ghty there were IL fathers but no motnes; 5oe
T itinafe children born in the year nunoelgu oo c
III t5a females 277 The plural births numbered 90
% % ~ females 407 There were four sets OF trlpels.
l - na1ia0es: Total marriages, 26,2Zo, an lncedse
the pr9cee5ngd ngd yf5Sr f5e least fi in aEys.
"As to deaths: Total deaths 33,99Z; rate I9'20 -
bnsand N the preceding year 36,5O2; rate 10. ' IT, ~
iba deaths 49, 600 were males, and loSoo leni" t =
tb rate is slowly growing less, for the average ia'e
I t seven veas the period during hich accurate @ s
tc have been collected is 1873 The rate IN e l2vT @ '. :
25 decrease of g. representing saving ol % II, =
Eight thousand and four Of the deaths or 80 P'
were Of children under one year OF age.
MANY BABES DIE YOUNG.
az !; Ettla startling to think that onetourth ol q
y ? l|e ooro fhev are one year DID, and the fact
especially startling when we rs1af ed bJ Snai either o oS
sga ~ lack Of care The total number OF deaths OF cll
under age was l&tSs 10 ass ofa or II bRhs RfhF SS
tr the cbd arrives at five years of age the chances
living increase as as shown by the fact 5hSt 3 'ne ua1
The age period five to twenty number 2oSS, o hofr
cent Of the total: 36 per cent OF all deaths occur Geo
the twenty first year In the prime OF me e., Wv a3t
ffty ears of age there were 7942 Deaths z e cen. NJ
largest number @ue Of death: sl2S secure fSere @
ll03 still births which were also counted as aea'ils
There was less cOnsumpO5a less dRntbepo Rafbu@aia IN 1906 ls;
be AVERAGE for the last seven years. However tee
ane darhoes and diseases SaOce 81 an'S more ot ste
ach diseases more cerebro spinal menngs more Or
more rheumatism and more diabetes II VIII pe Ve 1Uo'
that the diseases showing increase are usually r uue e
manutron either bad food, insufficient io9ul IA ol -
lkelv too much rich food Plain, well cooked ooTS s,
right quantity for ALL would measuralE reuuce uiI,
and death The awful loss of infants Is coll"leii'
our ignorance in the feeding and care % o'0ie''