948–17,954

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— 101 AK. US PHS Vital Statistics of the US 1953: Vol. I. …Tables for Alaska, Hawaii…, p. 30.
— 39 HI. US PHS Vital Statistics of the US 1953: Vol. I. …Tables for Alaska, Hawaii…, p. 34.
–17,814 States. US PHS Vital Statistics of the US 1954: Vol. II – Mortality Statistics, p. 370.
–17,954 Total. Yellow highlighting denotes top ten highest loss of life states.

Alabama 468 Montana 49
Alaska 101 Nebraska 64
Arizona 302 Nevada 19
Arkansas 381 New Hampshire 34
California 1,383 New Jersey 617
Colorado 196 New Mexico 101
Connecticut 207 New York 1,983
Delaware 58 North Carolina 403
District of Columbia 155 North Dakota 23
Florida 312 Ohio 876
Georgia 439 Oklahoma 232
Hawaii 39 Oregon 95
Idaho 28 Pennsylvania 1,428
Illinois 1,235 Rhode Island 81
Indiana 404 South Carolina 239
Iowa 126 South Dakota 56
Kansas 100 Tennessee 642
Kentucky 625 Texas 948
Louisiana 383 Utah 32
Maine 87 Vermont 39
Maryland 446 Virginia 444
Massachusetts 547 Washington 173
Michigan 530 West Virginia 259
Minnesota 194 Wisconsin 204
Mississippi 263 Wyoming 12
Missouri 558

Sources

Public Health Service. U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare. Vital Statistics of the US 1953: Vol. I. Introduction and Summary Tables for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Virgin Islands. Marriage, Divorce, Natality, Fetal Mortality and Infant Mortality Data. U.S. GPO, 1955. Accessed 5-28-2023 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/vsus_1953_1.pdf

Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Vital Statistics of the United States 1953, Volume II, Mortality Data. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955. Accessed 5-28-2023 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1953_2.pdf