Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-01-18

cars, Cumberland farmers 365, Leb-
anon farmers 32S and Perry farmers
PIG.
PENNSYLVANIA farmers own over ID
per cent. of the automobiles regis
tered in the State during the past year.
On the first of the year there were
22,60S automobiles in the hands of the
farmers of the State, according to the
estimates of the bureau of statistics of
the Department of Agriculture. The
reports show that 9.5 per cent. of the
farmers are car owners and this means
that there is an automobile on one out
of every ten farms. year ago it
was estimated that there were $4,000
automobiles in the hands of the farm
ers of the State, but the popularity of
the motor car. both for business and
pleasure. has been so marked among
the tillers Of the soil that the remark
able increase of SO per cent, has been
made in one years time.
In 1915 there were 1885, 9S4 automo-
biles registered in Pennsylvania and
the farmers are shown to own 14.1
per cent. of that total. Many of the
registrations granted by the State were
the percentage of farmers owning cars
is likely to be much higher il the total
number of State owners could be as
certaincd. The rural residents un-
doubtedly led by fair margin all
other classes as purchasers of cars
during the year.
In ten out of siNty-seven counties
the reports show that from Is to is
per cent. of the farmers own cars and
in thirty-one counties 10 per cent. or
more of the farmers are shown as car
owners Lancaster county leads with
over Is per cent. of the farmers own
ing an estimated total of l,S42 cars.
Chester county farmers own 1,O19 cars
and Bucks county farmers 963 cars.
In many counties during the year
gains of 100 per cent. in the number
of farmers owning automobiles We're
common, while in some counties the
gains were from $50 to 200 per cent
Scarlet Fever Rate Low.-The state
ment of deaths in Pennsylvania for
the month of October, 1915, issued by
the bureau of vital statistics of the
State Department of Health, shows
fewer deaths from scarlet fever in
PENNSYLVANIA during that month than
have been recorded in any October
since 1906. prior to which time there
were no statistics collected for the
State. For the entire ten months of
1915 the death rate from scarlet fever
has been lower than ever before. The
figures given out by Commissioner of
Health Samuel G.. Dixon would seem
to indicate that this splendid record
will be carried out during the balance
of the year. Diphtheria also has
shown a new low record: 1856 deaths
were recorded in October from this
cause. In this case. also, August, Sep
tember and October were all lower
than any corresponding months dur
ing the past ten years. The total num-
| ber of deaths in October was 1904,
distributed in part as follows: Typhoid
fever. 15S; scarlet fever, IL; diph-
iberia. 1856; influenza, 50; malaria. s;
/ tuberculosis of lungs, 625; tuberculosis
of other organs, 119; cancer. 5S7; dia-
betes. 70; meningitis. As; pneumonia
59S; Bright's disease and nephritis
us: early infancy, 65s; suicide, 70;
! accidents in mines, 104; railway in
! iuries, 1872; other forms of violence
l474. The total number of births dur
| ing October was 1S,9S5.
/ Post For DR.. I,atterson-Dr. Francis
d. Patterson. consulting safety ex-