Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-01
CAUSES MORE DEATHS THAN ANY
OTHER DISEASE, STATS
TICS SHOW.
FIGURES OF EACH MONTH
SHOW STEADY INCREASE
Dr.. Summer, Of State Health Board,
Advises People to Sleep More or Get
More Rest-Department Finishes
TabuIatins Deaths in Iowa Darins
February-Two Fatal Auto Accidents.

Special to Times-Republican.
| Des MONIES. June Heart trouble
causes more deaths in Iowa than any
4 other one disease, the statistics flled
in the office Of the state board o.
health show Each month when the
| figures are compiled the column &c;
this disease adds up the heaviest. This
does not include the deaths reported
as heart failure for the Office does not
| put those in with the figures on near
| trouble.
| 1t is not alone the older people who
die from some form OF this trouble
but younger people as well. Reports
from other states show that 1t ls the
cause of many deaths all over the
country. .--
If people would sleep more or get
more rest they would not experience
so much trouble with heart disease in
| it's various FORMS said DR.. Sumner
secretary of the state board OF health
/ in commenting on this condition.
| People over tax their hearts. They
need rest"
! The department has just finished
ia buating the deaths for February In
which month 2l0 people died in TINS
state of heart trouble. This was more
than for any other one cause. There
were 1873 died of influence, 49, of pneu-
monia, 1O5 of pulmonary tuberculosis
and twenty-one of other forms OF
| tuberculosis.
| There was one death from pelagro
! ,l,., FDr ~ n ms
John w. Cole residing in Clarke coun-
~. 80 years of age, was victim oil
| that disease.
/ During the month of February there
We're twenty suicides. nineteen killed
! in railroad accidents and two in auto
mobile accidents. The total numbe!
of deaths for the month was 2,19s. o.
this number 445 were between the ages
| OF 20 and so years and siXty-sever
were past 80 years of age.
| During the summer months the &C
cidental deaths run much higher than
| in the winter while deaths from luns
| troubles decrease. S.
Factories Fail to Report
! A. l.. Trick, state labor commits
sioiler, is having trouble completing
| his statistics on manufacturing be-
cause many factories have failed to re-
port He has undertaken complete
directory Of Iowa manufacturing
plants.
Approximately 1000 establishments
have reported but there yet remain
= some 1900 to hear from. The law re-
quires that these reports be made.
In letter sent out to-day TO those
manufa lecturers who are delinquen,
Commissioners u-ickr among other
things, says:
The showing for the state. you,
county and your line of manufacture
will De lessened if YOU fail TO do your
part. The law contetnplates the in
! clusion of every dollar invested every
! particle of material used, the value OF
! every product, every wage-earner ana
! every dollar earned TO prove our fac
J tory advantages and the real worth O!
/ Iowa as a state in which to live
State House Notes.
J G. A. Saunders, member of the ami
mai health commission. who held a
! sale of his pure bred Shorthorns al
! his farm near Manila today had ex-
pected the late James J. Hill OF
one Of his representatives to attend
! the sale. Hill was a great admirer OF
! the Saunders herd and had at one
time made a tempting offer for tbs
head of the herd.
A. c. C;ustafSOn secretary to Cover