Not a Death in a Year

Article taken from The Newark Daily Advocate, May 20, 1895

Portsmouth, Ohio, May 20 - Th report of the assessor of Washington township, this county, reveals a rather remarkable condition. During the past year there have been 25 births in the township and only two deaths. Both of the latter were in the infirmary, which is in that township, so that there has been virtually no deaths in the township within a year. Apeculiar coincidence is that there are no physicians within the borders of the township.