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It is estimated that 445,000 deaths from the epidemic of influenza occurred in the United States in the last four months of 1918 and about 346,000 of these in the registration area for deaths, in which dwells about 77.8 percent of the population of the United States.
Data relating to the influenza epidemic, among the civilian population only, have been compiled in considerable detail for the states of Indiana and Kansas and for the city of Philadelphia and are herewith presented, deaths of soldiers, sailors, and marines being excluded.
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Percent of Deaths from Influenza and Pneunionia (All Forms) as Primary and Contributory Causes.
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Annual Death Rate Per 100,000 Estimated Population, From Influenza and Pneumonia (All Forms) As Primary and Contributory Causes and From All Other Causes.
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Number of Deaths From All Causes and From Influenza and Pneumoma (All Forms) as Primary Causes.
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Percent of Deaths of Single and Married From Influenza and Pneumoma (All Forms) as Primary Causes.
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Rough Annual Death Rates From Influenza and Pneumoma (All Forms) as Primary Causes, By Country of Birth of Mother.
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Annual Death Rate Per 100,000 Estimated Population of Total and Colored From Influenza and Pneumoma (All Forms) as Primary Causes.
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TABLE 1.—Deaths, by sex and age, from all causes and from influenza and pneumonia (all forms) as primary and contributory causes, in Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia, for each month from September to December, 1918
TABLE 1A.—Percent of deaths from influenza and pneumonia (all forms) as primary and contributory causes to total deaths, by sex and age, and the annual death rate per 100,000 estimated population in Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia, for each month from September to December, 1918
TABLE 2.—Number and percent of deaths, by sex, from all causes and from influenza and pneumonia (all forms) as primary and contributory causes, in Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia, for each day from Sept. 1 to Dec. 31, 1918
TABLE 3.—Number and percent of deaths, by sex, age, and conjugal condition, from all causes and from influenza and pneumonia (all forms) as primary and contributory causes, in Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia, for the period Sept. 1 to Dec. 31. 1918
TABLE 4.—Number and percent of deaths, by sex and age, and for whites, by country of birth of mother, from all causes and from influenza and pneumonia (all forms) as primary and contributory causes, in Philadelphia, for the period Sept. 1 to Dec. 31. 1918
TABLE 5.—Number and percent of deaths of males, by age, engaged in specified occupations, from all causes and from influenza and pneumonia (all forms) as primary and contributory causes, in Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia, for the period Sept. 1 to Dec. 31. 1918
TABLE 6.—Number of stillbirths, by month, with color and age of mother, and for whites, by country of birth of mother, in Indiana, Kansas, and Philadelphia: 1918
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