10 –1,341

–1,341 Blanchard tally from locality breakouts below.*

Chicago, IL ( 10)
–10 Typhoid. Jordan. “Typhoid Fever…in Chicago.” JAMA, 1902, p. 2.

New Orleans, LA ( 228)
–228 Typhus. Hinman. “History of Typhus Fever in Louisiana.” AJPH, V26, Nov 1936, p. 278.

New York City (1,103) Typhus and Typhoid
–1,103 Rosner. Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in [NYC]. 1991, p. 31.

*This number represents only the three localities for which we have located data. There were undoubtedly many more fatalities. We should note that at this time distinctions between typhus and typhoid were not uniformly made.

Source

Hinman, Harold E. “History of Typhus Fever in Louisiana.” American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 26, Nov 1936, pp. 1117-1124. Accessed 3-24-2020 at: https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.26.11.1117

Jordan, Edwin Oakes. “Typhoid Fever and Water Supply in Chicago.” The Journal of the American Medical Association, 12-20-1902. Accessed 12-24-2019 at: http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/10723.html

Rosner, David (Ed.). Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City. Rutgers University Press, 1991, 236 pages. Partially digitized by Google. Accessed 3-29-2018 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=o34QxI6lHwAC&pg=PA70&dq=1916+Polio+Epidemic&ei=Cy5DSZWvMIXAMpqalOYN#PPP7,M1