1941 — Cerebrospinal Meningitis                                                                                  —   713

1941 — Cerebrospinal Meningitis                                                                                        —   713

Compiled by Wayne Blanchard; last edit 10-5-2024 for upload to: http://www.usdeadlyevents.com/

Narrative Information

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 1941 – Part I: Natality and Mortality Data for the United States Tabulated by Place of Occurrence with Supplemental Tables for Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Washington: GPO, 1943. Accessed at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1941_1.pdf