1920 — Whooping Cough, esp. PA/1,195, NY/1,063, OH/845, IL/553, and MA/536[1] –10,968

–10,968  Bureau of the Census. Mortality Statistics 1920. DC: GPO, 1922, p. 27, 214, 216, 220.

 

AL         41      Just for 3 registration cities: Birmingham at 29, Mobile at 2, Montgomery at 10.

CA      410

CO      250      At 26.4 deaths per 100,000 pop., had highest death rate registered; 12.5 was avg.

CT       218

DE         30

DC        18

FL         69

GA        92      Just for 4 registration cities: Atlanta/58, Augusta/13, Brunswick/2, Savannah/19.

IL        553

IN        311

KS       213      Kansas City, KS reported 3rd highest death rate at 23.5 compared to avg. of 12.5.

KY      386

LA       184

ME      126

MD      145

MA      536

MI       299

MS      157

MO      308

MT        51

NE       246

NH        36

NJ        413

NY   1,063

NC      357

OH      845

OR        47

PA    1,195

RI          92

SC       373

TN       295      Nashville had 2nd highest city of >100,000 death rate in U.S., at 26.1 per 100,000.

UT       112      At 24.7 deaths per 100,000, UT had 2nd highest death rate in U.S., behind CO.

VT         27

VA      463      (6th highest loss of life in a state)

WA     102

WI       299

 

Narrative Information

 

Bureau of Census: “The number of deaths from whooping cough in 1920 is 10,968, with a death rate of 12.5 per 100,000 population, as against a rate of 5.5 in 1919. With the exception of 16.9 for 1918 the rate for 1920 is the highest for any year in the annual mortality reports….Of the 33 states for which rates are shown for 1919 and 1920, 30 have higher rates in 1920. Colorado and Utah have the highest rates (26.4 and 24.7, respectively)…. Cities showing the highest rates in 1920 are Atlanta (28.6), Nashville (26.1), and Kansas City, Kans. (23.5)…”

 

[Also: Birmingham, AL (16.0), Bridgeport, CT (16.5), New Haven, CT (18.3), Louisville, KY (10.2), Boston (20.1), Cambridge, MA (21.8), Fall River, MA (11.6), Lowell, MA (18.6), New Bedford, MA (10.6), Springfield, MA (13.7), Detroit, MI (13.2), Grand Rapids, MI (17.3), Minneapolis MN (12.5), St. Paul, MN (11.0), Kansas City, MO (11.6), Omaha, NE (22.7), Camden, NJ (11.9), Jersey City, NJ (19.0), Newark, NJ (14.1), NYC (11.4), Yonkers, NY (13.9), Columbus, OH (11.3), Dayton, OH (16.2), Toledo, OH (10.5), Youngstown, OH (11.9), Pittsburgh (14.2), Reading, PA (10.2), Scranton, PA (12.3), Providence, RI (14.3), Salt Lake City (13.4), Richmond, VA (23.1), Milwaukee (13.2).] (Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce. Mortality Statistics 1920 (Twenty-First Annual Report). DC: GPO, 1922, p. 27-28.)

 

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 33 “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.