The present report presents mortality statistics for the death registration area of the United States. This area for 1918 includes, besides the 1917 area (with the exception of Augusta, Ga., for which transcripts of death were not received), three new states—Ilinois, Louisiana, and Oregon.

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INTRODUCTION
DEATHS AND CRUDE DEATH: RATES
- Growth of the registration area: 1880 to 1918
- Extent of the registration area in 1918
- Deaths, by color, nativity, parent nativity, age, and sex of decedent
- Death rates of the registration states
- Death rates of large cities
- Death rates of cities with considerable colored populations
- Deaths of colored populations other than Negro
- Deaths of nonresidents
- Death rates of foreign countries
- Comparison of rates for the registration area, by sex, by age, and by cause, with the corresponding rates for England and Wales and for Australia
CAUSES OF DEATH
- Detailed and abridged International Lists
- Changes in the detailed International List
- Death rates from certain important causes of death in the registration area and in the original registration states for the years 1900, 1905, and, 1910 to 1918
- Typhoid fever
- Malaria
- Smallpox
- Measles
- Scarlet fever
- Whooping cough
- Diphtheria and croup
- Influenza and pneumonia (all forms)
- Influenza
- All other epideinic diseases
- Glanders
- Anthrax
- Rabies
- Pellagra
- Tuberculosis (all forms)
- Tuberculosis of the lungs
- Cancer
- Aqute anterior poliomyelitis
- Organic diseases of the heart
- Pneumonia (all forms)
- Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years)
- Acute nephritis and Bright's disease
- Suicide
- Violent deaths (suicide excepted)
- Ill-defined and unknown causes
DEATHS OF CHILDREN UNDER 1 YEAR OF AGE
DEATHS OF SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AND MARINES
ACCURACY OF STATISTICS OF CAUSES OF DEATH
CONTRIBUTORY CAUSES OF DEATH IN RELATION TO PRIMARY CAUSES OF DEATH IN THE REGISTRATION AREA (EXCLUSIVE OF HAWAII AND OF SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AND MARINES): 1917

Summary and Rate Tables

TABLE IA.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii), its main subdivisions, each registration state (by cities and rural districts), and each group of registration cities in nonregistration states: 1918
TABLE IB.—Deaths of nonresidents in relation to total deaths in each city and each rural unit in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii): 1918
TABLE II.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) and death rates per 100,000 population, by causes, according to the detailed International List, for the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii): 1915 to 1918
TABLE III.—Death rates per 100,000 population in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) and each registration state, from important causes of death: 1918

General Tables

TABLE 1.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) and certain subdivisions, by month of death: 1918
TABLE 2.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) and certain subdivisions, by color, general nativity, and parent nativity of decedent: 1918
TABLE 3.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) and certain subdivisions, by color and age of decedent: 1918
TABLE 4.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii), its main subdivisions, and each registration state, by age, sex, color, general nativity, and parent nativity of decedent: 1918
TABLE 5.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) and certain subdivisions, by color of decedent and cause of death: 1918
TABLE 6.—Deaths (exclusive of still births) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii), its main subdivisions, .and in cities and rural districts of each registration state, from each cause and class of causes: 1918
TABLE 7.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) from each cause and class of causes, by sex and age of decedent: 1918
TABLE 7A.—Deaths of white persons (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) from each cause and class of causes, by sex and age of decedent: 1918
TABLE 7B.—Deaths of colored persons (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) from each cause and class of causes, by sex and age of decedent: 1918
TABLE 8.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii), all registration states, and each registration state, from each cause and class of causes, by age of decedent: 1918
TABLE 9.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in each city of 100,000 population or more in 1910, by cause of death (abridged International List) and by age of decedent: 1918
TABLE 10.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii), registration states, and cities of 100,000 population or more in 1910, from important causes, by month of death: 1918
TABLE 11.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii), registration states, and cities of 100,000 population or more in 1910, from important causes, for certain subdivisions of the first year of life: 1918

Maps

Growth of the regietration area for deaths: 1880 to 1918

Diagrams

Percentages which the population and land area of the registration area formed of the total population and land area of the United States for the years 1880, 1890, and 1900 to 1918, inclusive
Percent of deaths in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) by color, by nativity of white persons, and by parent nativity of the native white: 1918
Number of deaths in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) at all ages, under 1 year of age, and from 1 to 4 years of age, for each of the years 1900 to 1918
Percent of deaths in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) under 1 year of age, from 1 to 4 years, and 5 years and over, for each of the years 1900 to 1918
General death rates of the United States (registration area) and certain foreign countries for each of the years from 1900 to 1917
Death rates from certain important causes of death in the registration area of the United States for each of the years from 1900 to 1918