This report presents mortaIity statistics for the death registration area of the United States. This area for 1920 includes, besides the 1919 area, one additional state—Nebraska.

• INTRODUCTION
• DEATHS AND CRUDE DEATH RATES
  • Growth of the registration area: 1880 to 1920
  • Extent of the registration area in 1920
  • Deaths, by color, nativity, parent nativity, age, and sex of decedent
  • Death rates of the registration states
  • Death rates of large cities
  • Deaths by month of occurrence
  • Deaths of Negros
  • Deaths of colored populations other than Negro
  • Deaths of nonresidents
  • Death rates of foreign countries
• 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, 1910 to 1920
  • Typhoid fever
  • Malaria
  • Smallpox
  • Measles
  • Scarlet fever
  • Whooping cough
  • Diphtheria and croup
  • Influenza and pneumonia (all forms)
  • Influenza
  • Encephalitis lethargica
  • All other epidemic diseases
  • Glanders
  • Anthrax
  • Rabies
  • Pellagra
  • Tuberculosis (all forms)
  • Tuberculosis of the lungs
  • Syphilis
  • Cancer
  • Lethargic encephalitis
  • Aqute anterior poliomyelitis
  • Organic diseases of the heart
  • Pneumonia (all forms)
  • Diarrhea and enteritis (under 2 years)
  • Acute nephritis and Bright's disease
  • Puerperal causes
  • Suicide
  • Accidental or undefined causes
    • Automobile accidents and injuries
  • Homicide 
  • Unknown or ill-defined diseases
    
• DEATHS OF CHILDREN UNDER 1 YEAR OF AGE
• ACCURACY OF STATISTICS OF CAUSES OF DEATH
• AUTOPSIES AND TESTS

• TABLE IA.—Population, deaths (exclusive of stillbirths), and death rates per 1,000 estimated population, 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: 1920
• TABLE IB.—Population, deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) of nonresidents in relation to total deaths, and death rates per 1,000 estimated population in each city and each rural unit in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii): 1920
• TABLE II.—Death rates per 100,000 population, from each cause and class of causes, for the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) and its main subdivisions: 1910 and 1920

• TABLE 1.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) and certain subdivisions, by month of death: 1920
• 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: 1920
• TABLE 3.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) and certain subdivisions, by color and age of decedent: 1920
• 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: 1920
• TABLE 5.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii) and certain subdivisions, by color of decedent and cause of death: 1920
• 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: 1920
• TABLE 7.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration states, from each cause and class of causes, by sex and age of decedent: 1920
• TABLE 7A.—Deaths of white persons (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration states, from each cause and class of causes, by sex and age of decedent: 1920
• TABLE 7B.—Deaths of colored persons (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration states, from each cause and class of causes, by sex and age of decedent: 1920
• 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: 1920
• TABLE 9.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in each registration city of 100,000 population or more in 1920, by cause of death and by age of decedent: 1920
• TABLE 10.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii), registration states, and registration cities of 100,000 population or more in 1920, from important causes, by month of death: 1920
• TABLE 11.—Deaths (exclusive of stillbirths) in the registration area (exclusive of Hawaii), registration states, and cities of 100,000 population or more in 1920, from important causes, for certain subdivisions of the first year of life: 1920

• Growth of the regietration area for deaths: 1880 to 1920

• 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 1920, 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: 1920
• 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 1920
• 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 1920
• General death rates of the United States (registration area) and certain foreign countries for each of the years from 1900 to 1920
• Death rates from certain important causes of death in the registration area of the United States for each of the years from 1900 to 1920

• Hawaii