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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1940
Page
12
Mrs F M Coates hosts Riverside Garden Club at her Reedsville riverside home with fifteen members attending and lunch served. Upcoming club picnic set at R L Larkins cabin on Forked Run July 25. Various visitors from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh stop by or travel home, plus local moves, deaths, and cattle loss noted.
The Athens City-County Health District report shows heart diseases caused the most deaths in 1939 with 152 deaths and a rate of 344 per 100 000. Other leading causes included pneumonia and influenza 46 deaths 104.13 rate, accidents 46 104.13, cancer 45 101.86, cerebral hemorrhage and embolism 44 99.60, nephritis 41 92.80, tuberculosis 22 49.80, diabetes 17 38.48, arteriosclerosis 16 36.21, and premature birth 14 31.69. The note shifts to geological observations about lakes being temporary earth features.
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