1920 — Smallpox, 34 registration states, esp. LA/167, MS/45, MO/28, NC/28 — 508

— 508  Census Bureau. Mortality Statistics 1920 (Twenty-First Annual Rpt.). 1922, pp. 214, 216.

 

AL         3  (Birmingham)

CA        9

CO      10

DE         2

FL         2

IL        15

IN        17

KS         4

KY      21

LA     167  (New Orleans, 134)

MA        2

MI       11

MN      17

MS      45

MO      28

MT        2

NE       22

NY        1

NC      28

OH      17

OR      10

PA         1

SC         2

TN       12

UT       13

VA      12

WA     18

WI       10

 

Source

 

Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce. Mortality Statistics 1920 (Twenty-First Annual Report). Washington, DC: GPO, 1922, 664 pages. Accessed 8-20-2016 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsushistorical/mortstatsh_1920.pdf

 

 

[1] Based on death certificate data from 34 “registration states” as well as 17 cites in non-registration states of AL, GA, ND, OK, TX and WV, with an estimated population of 87,45,921 or 82.3% of total estimated U.S. and Hawaii territory population. AK was not a State. Other non-reporting states were AZ, AR, ID, IA, MN, NM, SD, and WY.