Healthiest City In The State

Far Less Deaths From Typhoid in Past Five Years

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THAN ANY OTHER CITY

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General Death Rate is Also Among the Lowest in Spite of the Many Cases Coming Here for Treatment

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In the past five years there have been 12 deaths from typhoid fever in Ann Arbor. This is the smallest number of deaths from typhoid fever in this period of any city of over 10,000 population in Michigan. This is only a little over two deaths a year from this cause. So far during the year 1903 there has been only one death from this disease in the city. 

In the Michigan vital statistics Ann Arbor is put down as the city of lowest mortality from typhoid fever of the Michigan cities and the death rate from this disease is 5 per cent lower per 1,000 of population than it is in any other city. 

In the five years there have been 3,206 deaths from this disease in Michigan. The city of the highest mortality from this cause is Sault Ste. Marie. 

The figures given above among other things constitute the highest kind of praise for our drinking water supply.

There were 52 deaths in Washtenaw in September, of which 18 were of persons over 65 years of age and 10 of children under 1 year. Four of these deaths were from cancer, four from diarrhea, four from tuberculosis, three from pneumonia, two from typhoid fever and one from meningitis. 

During September there were 12 deaths in Ann Arbor or 9 per 1000 of population. During September there were 8 deaths in Ypsilanti or 12.2 per 1000 of population. The city death rate in the state was 14.2 per 1000 of population. These figures speak well for the healthfulness of the two cities. 

An examination of the death records of Ann Arbor shows in addition to the above that fully one-third of the deaths in this city and charged up to this city in the state statistics as given above are people who come here in the last stages of disease for medical treatment.