1937 — Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis, int. list #18, Census Bur. Vital Statistics, Pt. I–2,208

Compiled by Wayne Blanchard; last edit 11-11-2024 for upload to: http://www.usdeadlyevents.com/

–2,208  U.S. Bureau of the Census. Vital Statistics 1937-1938, Mortality, Part I, Table XI, p. 24.

 Narrative Information

Bureau of the Census. Listed under heading I. Infectious and parasitic diseases…(Communicable diseases). Diseases due to bacteria (numbers 1-26).

Merriam-Webster: “Definition of cerebrospinal meningitis: inflammation of the meninges of both brain and spinal cord, specifically: an infectious often epidemic and fatal meningitis caused by the meningococcus.” (Merriam-Webster. “Cerebrospinal meningitis.” 2020.)

Sources

Merriam-Webster. “Cerebrospinal meningitis.” 2020. Accessed 1-31-2020 at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cerebrospinal%20meningitis

United States Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce. Vital Statistics of the United States 1938, Part I, Natality and Mortality Data for the United States Tabulated by Place of Occurrence. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1940. Accessed 11-13-2024 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1938_1.pdf