Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-01
Virtually Every Section of
Country Shows Increase
Over 1924.
CAPITAL ONE OF FEW
CITIES WITH DECREASE
Upward Curve Notable in New
England, New York. Middle
West and South.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. January / Automobiles
took Il far heavier toll of human lite
in 1872" than in the preceding year.
figures gathered by the Associated
Press from n number OF the larger
cities indicate.
Many of the great metropolitan cen
ters We're in the column of heavier IA
talities. While a number Of the smaller
cities reported a slight increa Sc. from
1924.
In a group Of representative Ameri-
can cities, 40 reported a heavier death
toll for the year just ended, while in
20 the death list was approximately
the same or somewhat lower. In n
number of the latter places. however,
the statistics did not cover the entire
year.
Among the larger cities, Chicago
and suburbs reported 7S1 deaths in
1925 against 705 the previous year;
in Philadelphia the fatality list jumped
from 2S5 10 325: the increase in De
troit and vicinity was from $50 TO 395;
at Cincinnati from 103 to l29, and
Cleveland lso to 205. Increases als>
We're noted at Columbus, Toledo. At
lanta, Louisville, Birmingham. Boston,
Memphis, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Jer
sey City, providence, Seattle. and
Portland. Greg.
Some Figures Lower.
In New York city. st. Louis and
Kansas Guy Iatan,y figures for the
two years virtually were. 1.-The same,
but the New York figures covered
oniy the first 10 mouths OF each year.
Fewer automobile deaths occurred in
the Nation Capital. and In Pits
burgh, New Orleans, San FrRncsico
and Los Angeles, among the larger
cities reporting.
In the first II months OF 1873 there
We're so deaths in New York City
against SOS for the same period in
1924; Kansas City reported Is in the
gear just pase as against TO for 1924,
while the 1925 figure in st. Louis was
1872, an increase of 3.
Deaths Decrease Here.
In Washington deaths decreased
frsua 55 2tt'- S2::z~tbe figure Tor Pitts.
burgh and vicinity was l3a against
154, while New Orleans, incomplete,
reported 7G against 81 in 1924. De
cr"aSeS also We're noted III Baltimore
and Buffalo, but the figures covered
only II months. out Of 10 important
Pacific coast cities, only Los Angeles
ana San Francisco. the largest.
showed decreases. Los Angeles lS9J
total was 27l. compared to $40, while
San Francisco dropped from l05 T. 81.
Increases We're noted in virtually
every instance where the figures were
analyZed by larger geographic units.
Out of II leading Ohio cities, only
one. Youngstown, showed ii decrease.
-Four cities III Pennsylvania, eXtud NJ
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, showed
decrea ses, but the figures covered
! only II months.
Increases i'll south
OF 10 leading cities in the South all
but two reported more fatalities. For
Virginia for eight months, deaths In
| 1925 totaled 100. against I41 for the
same period in 1924 In North Caro-
| lima the jump was from 33I to ISL.
Six large cities in Kansas reported d
| 1925 toll of T5, compared to 54. In
Connecticut there were $50 deaths, an
| increase of IS: five out OF seven lead
| ing communities in Michigan reported
! increases.
! In the East increases We're an
nounced at Atlantic City. Providence.
r. l.: Jersey City. y. J.. and Wor-
cester and Lowell, Mass. with de
creases at Albany and Syracuse, n
Y. and Springfield. Mass. In the Far
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