Gasper Ratto

Illinois Department of Conservation - Division of Law Enforcement — Springfield, IL

Illness

End of Watch February 11, 1902

Age 54

Tour of Duty 4 yrs

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Gender Male

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Incident

Deputy Game Warden Gasper Ratto died of blood poisoning which he contracted two months earlier while conducting inspections at an Illinois Central Railroad station in Chicago. The blood poisoning was the result of a cut he suffered when cutting open boxes while inspecting packages for illegal fish and game.

Deputy Game Warden Ratto had served with the Illinois Department of Conservation for four years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and nine children.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Deputy Game Warden Ratto gave the Illinois Department of Conservation 4 years.
Thank you for your service to the Springfield community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deputy Game Warden Ratto.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Illinois Department of Conservation - Division of Law Enforcement

Location Springfield, IL

Platform Identity idcdlecons.fed.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch February 11, 1902

Tour of Duty 4 yrs

Age 54

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Cause Detail Duty related illness

Deputy Game Warden Gasper Ratto is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In IL, 66 of 1,318 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 5% of this state's fallen. That is 4.1 percentage points below the national rate of 9.1%.

At Illinois Department of Conservation - Division of Law Enforcement, 1 of 13 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 7.7% of this agency's fallen.

Illinois Department of Conservation - Division of Law Enforcement

of 13 officers

7.7% Illness

IL — Statewide

of 1,318 officers

5% Illness

Nationwide

2,974

of 32,508 officers

9.1% Illness