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Childhood DiseasesThe principal epidemic maladies of childhood—measles, whoopingcough, and scarlet fever—were together responsible for 17,586 deathsof both adults and children, or 24.6 per 100,000, in the registration area in 1916, the rates for the three diseases separately being 11.1, 10.2, and3.3. As in 1913, measles caused a higher mortality than either of the other diseases, but in 1914 and 1915Awhooping cough had first place. In every year since and including IS)IT, as well as in several preceding years, measles has caused a greater number of deaths than scarlet fever. The rate for scarlet fever in 1916 was the lowest on record, while that for whooping cough, although considerably below the highest recorded rate for that disease, 15.8 in 1903, was far above the lowest, 6.5 in 1904 Acute anterior poliomyelitis, commonly called infantile paralysis, caused 7,130 deaths in 1916, representing a rate of 10 per 100,000 population. This disease developed in epidemic form in that year, and the resultant mortality showed an enormous increase. The rate from infantile paralysis declined from 2.7 per 100,000 in 1910—the first year in which this malady was reported separately as a cause of death--tojt 1 per 100,000 in 1915, the decrease having been continuous from year to year except for an increase between 1911 and 1912. The rate for liUO. now ever, was ten times as great as that for the preceding year. -
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Greensburg Weekly Democrat
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Thu, Nov 29, 1917
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