Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-31
DEATH RATIO
BUT LEADING mE
ARE IN The LIST
Figures Available for Past Ten Aen1n9
Show Decrease Over the SaMe
Period In 1914.
sToRK HAS MIGHTY BUSr THE
Makes 99t Visits in Period Nan0os
While 57s Pass Away, Leaving
Net Gain Of 40.

ANALYSIS of the death rate in Hock
Island county for the first 10 months
of 1915 gives decrease In mortality
Of 76 as compared with like period
last year.
The total Of deaths from January 70
October inclusive, was 572, the hcav-
| lest losses occurring in the first two
months OF the year.
The mortality among males was 304
and among females 26S.
There were two deaths at the ripe
age of So years and two at age Of IS.
Deaths ranging downward between %
| and SIS years show total of IS. Be-
tween ages 81 and rs the showing lis 63.
From age IA down to age 80. the NUM-
Der is zee. The mortality in all ages
under 81 years shows PSI deaths.
Birth Rate as Factor.
| Study of the birth rate for the first
| 10 months of 1915. in comparison with
| the death rate for the same period,
presents to view what may be termed
| the debit and credit sides Of human
! life in this community.
The births for the 1915 period stated
were 991, as compared with 1873 births
/ for the same duration of time in 1914.
Thus we have decrease of lat in the
birth rate for this year, so far as the
record goes.
The month of April was the banner
month for babies. the stork having
made liz visits. Last year the high
mark was reached In June. As to the
matter of sex, 1916 gives the boy ba-
bies slight lead of 10 over the girls.
the division being sos males and 4S6
females.
In the final analysis the total Of
births, 991, to the total of deaths, $40,
shows a balance of 419 lives on the
credit side of the ledger
Leading Citizens Taken.
In no other year of Rock Islands
history has death exacted greater trib-
ute from among those who were lead
ers in the business, social and religi-
Gus life of this community. The toll
has been especially heavy among men
lof large financial interests and who
were recognized for their ability to
accomplish great undertakings, and in
this respect an analysis of the years
death rate brings a sense of irrepara-
BILE loss. In the list are two bank
presidents, leading attorney and
fnancier, an ex-mayor OF the city, a
Eprominent merchant, county official
land and ex-county officer.
In the list of deaths for the first 10
months of 1915 are the names of Otto
Huber, president of the Peoples Ma
tional band and the German Trust &
Savings bank; Herbert e. Casteel.
president of the Central Trust G. Saw
lings bank; Elmore w. Hurst. prom
Einent attorney and financier; Henry
| Carse, ex-mayor and manufacturer:
land Levi s. McCabe, leading merchant
and man of affairs; the county Of
/ fcers being represented in the deaths
of John E. Fleming, clerk of the pro-
bate court, and ex-Sheriff Oscar L.
Bruner
It is recalled with deep sense Of
the loss sustained. that these men
largely responsible for the max
ing Of the new Third avenue have died
during the year, namely: Messrs.
Hurst, McCabe and Casteel They died
: In the full plenitude of their business
= activities thin comparatively
short time from one another The
Safety building, the Rock Island Saw
ings bank, the Colonial hotel and the
', Central Trust and Savings bank. To-
Gated on the four corners of Third
avenue and Eighteenth street, stand
as monuments to their faith in the fu-
ture greatness of Rock Island.
Tho npaff, Raeord.