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WILMETTE LIFE April 19, 1929 SUBSCRIPTION TICKETS for the 1929-30 Season of the Mrs. Alice M. Sprague . Taken by Death Monday Mrs. Alice M. Sprague, 1036 Isabella street, Wilmette, wife of Richard P. Sprague, of the Simpson-Clark Gla~s company, 131 W. Austin avenue, Chlcago, died Monday afternoon at her home after an illnes·s of ten days. Mr. and Mrs. Sprague moved to Wilmette from Evanston five years ago. Besides her husband, Mrs. Sprague is survived by . two daughters, Norma and Mary. The funeral services were held Tuesday morning, April 16, at 11 :30 o'clock in the Graceland cemetery chapel. HEALTH WORK BRINGS BIG DEATH R · ATE DROP Thirty-Eight Per Cent Decline in · Tuberculo.aia, Typhoid Mor· tali~/ in Decade · New triumphs for preventive medicine were announct!d this week in statistics made public by Dr. Andy Hall state health director, who pointed out 'that mortality from tuberculosis, typhoid fever, measles and scarlet fever fell to new minium records in Illinois last year. Together these four dangerous infections were charged with 5,841 deaths during 1928, compared with 9,578 in 1918, a decline of 38 per cent within a decade. "The falling death rate from tuberculosis and typhoid, once a dual plague of the first magnitude in Illinois, is clearly the result of better sanitation and hygiene. Measles and scarlet fever are less subject to control methods and the low mortality last year probably invohed a greater element of chance. "Tuberculosis always indicates errors in habits of living. That 1928 yielded 5,441 deaths from that disorder compared with 8,579 in 1918, indicates a commendably rapid progress in dealing with consumption. The rate per 100,000 population was 73.3 last year, compared with 128.7 in 1918. That the decline has been steady and persistent during this whole decade is clear proof that the preventiv e program is correct and that the people are manifesting an increasing degree of intelligence in their hygienic manner of life. "Typhoid fever is even more accurate . than tuberculosis as a measure of man's intelligence. Sickness and death from typhoid simply indicate that man has not been able to keep his sewage and his water and food supplies separated, and that he has disregarded vaccination. To have had but 160 deaths from that disease last year compared with 533 in 1918, and 1,897 in 1900, indicates, therefore, an enormous improvement in the average intelligence in Illinois. People are demanding pure water and milk supplies and they arc insisting upon clean, healthy cooks and food handlers. The State provides typhoid vaccine free of local cost and its use will prevent typhoid among civilians as it did among the troops of the \Vorld war. "The situation in reference to diphtheria is less complimentary. Last year r)-l7 deaths were charged against that disease. This number is identical with the mortality of 1927, but it is only one-half of the annual losses which occurred prior to 1923. Eradicating diphtheria depends a good deal more upon individual initiative and individual faith in preventve medicine than docs the prevention of either typhoid or tuberculosis. Use of toxin-antitoxin to protect children against diphtheria is growing more and more general. however, so that prospects of eradicating this disease are bright. Parents generally know that physicians can get toxin-antoxin from the State without local · cost, which materially ·reduces the expense of protecting the'ir chil dren." .,... I I CHICAGO CIVIC OPERA Now on Sale at Evanston Office I. I Lyon and-Healy, Inc. · Mr. S. P. Russell in charge 615 Davis St. EVANSTON University 6810 ··········· Only 1 tnore day of the Frigidaire Cold Control demonstration· and only 1 more day of our big special offer · Don't miss this special opportunity of seeing the famous Frigidaire Cold Control actually in use. 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Dr. Breyer, who was head of the laboratory of the Chicago branch of the Corn Products Refining company, is survived by his widow, Mrs. Almeda Breyer. He was 59 years old. The funeral services were held at 3 o'clock MoHday afternoon, April 15, from his late residence, with the Rev. Robert Jacob Pister, of St. Paul's Lutheran church, Chicago, officiating. Burial took place at Grace\ilnd cemetery. STOVER CO. Mlehlgan ATe. at Randolph St., Oil N. N:lehlgan ATe.) Randolph 4950 El'&Dtton · · · 1111 Sherman ATe. Greenleaf 4481 Hubbard HJrlllaad Park · · 181 Central ATe. Hlrlllaad Park no Woods · 890 Linden Winnetka 1811 PublJc Senlee Company of Northern Illinois At all their oftlees. An.