The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-02-06
DEATH CAUSES REc|TED
FIGURES SENT OUT BY
CENSUS BUREAU
Long List of Diseases to Which
The Human Flesh Is
Liable

Washington ID. c., February A.
The census bureaus annual coupila-
ton of mortality statistics for the
death registration area in continental
United States, which will he issued
shortly, shows 1,471,3G7 deaths as hav-
ing occurred in 1918, representing a
rate of $50 per 1000 population, the
highest rate on record in the census
bureau-due to the influenza pan
demic
OF the total deaths AT ,467, or over
80 per cent, were due to iafiuenZa and
pneumonia GALL forms), 3S0,996 hav-
ing occurred in the last four months
of the year during the influenza pam
demic. The rate for influenza and
pneumonia (all forms) is 1892 per
100000. Influenza caused 244,6S1
deaths and pneumonia GALL forms)
232,7S6, showing rates of 1888 and
24S.3 per 100000, respectively, these
being the highest rates which have
ever appeared for thes causes. The
rate in 1917 for influenza was 17.2
and for pneumonia TALL forms) was
1893. In fact the difference (4162 per
100000 popuation) between the 1917
and 1918 rates corresponds with the
excess mortality which occurred in
the last four months of the year from
the influenza pandemic.
The next most important causes of
death in @f "a
heart, tuberculosis (all forms), acute
nephritis and Bright's disease, and
cancer, which together We're respons-
ible for 391,391 deaths, or nearly 27
per cent Of the total number.
The death registration area in 1918
comprised 30 states, the District of
Columbia, and q registration cities
in nonregistration states. with total
estimated population of S1,86S,104, or
IT'S per cent Of the estimated popu-
lation Of the United States. The Terri
tory Of Hawaii is now a part Of the
registration area, but the figures given
in this summary relate only to contin-
entail United States.
The death from organic disease Of
the heart numbered 124,66S, or 1923
per 100000 population. The death rate
from this cause shows a slight de-
crease as compared with 1917, when
it was 1882 per 100000. There have
been fluctuations from year to year,
but in general there has been a mark
ed increase since 1900 the earliest
year for which annual mortality stat
istics were published, when the rate
for organic diseases of the heart was
111.2 per 100000 population.
tuberculosis in it's various forms
caused 122.040 deaths. of which 10S,-
365 were due to tuberculosis of the
lungs. The death rate from all forms
of tuberculosis was 1871 per 100000,
and from tuberculosis of the lungs,
1924. The rate from tuberculosis of
all forms declined continuously from
200.7 per 100000 in 1904 to 141.6 in
1916, the decrease amounting to near
ly 80 per cent; but for 1917 and 1918
increases are shown, the 1918 rate
being somewhat higher than the rate
for 1917, when it was 1864. Until 1912
more deaths were due to tuberculosis
than to amy other single cause, but in
that year and during the period 1914
1913 the mortality from tuberculosis
was less than that from heart diseas
eS.
Bight's disease ard acute nephritis
caused 79,343 deaths, or 969 per 100,-
900. This is q noticeable decrease As
compared with 1917 when the rate
was 1914 per 10000.
Cancer and other malignant tumors
we've responsible for 65,340 deaths, OF
which number 24,7S3, or nearly 3S
per cent, resulted from cancer of the
stomach and liver. The rate (79.S) is
a decrease from 1917, when it was
SIG. With the exceptions of the years
1906, 1907, 1911. 1917, and 1918, there
has been a continuous increase in
death rates from these diseases.
Apoplexy was the cause of 64,904
deaths, or 1913 per 100000 This rate
too. declined, having been for 1917,
S2.9 %.
Diarrhea and enteritis caused 3d.
100 deaths, or 1922 per 100000, q de-
crease from the rate (79.0) for 1917
More than four fifths of the total
deaths charged to these causes in
1918 were of infants under two years
of age. 80 ... ..-..
Arterial diseases of various kinds
-atheroma. aneurism, etc.-resulted
in 1927 deaths, or 1872 per 100000
which rate is somewhat less than that
(25.3) for 1917.
Deaths from diabetes numbered IL,
927, or 1873 per 100000. The rate from
this disease increased almost continu-
ously from 81 in 1900 to 10 in 1916
but since 1916 a slight decrease fol
each year is apparent. The rate fol
1917 was 16.9.
Bronchitis caused 1878 deaths, OF
1885 per 100000 This rate is lower
than that for any preceding year. The
proportional decline from 1900, foI
which year the bronchitis rate was
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