736–13,676

lornajarrettblanchard January 1, 1955

–13,676 USPHS Vital Statistics of the US 1956: Vol. II – Mortality Statistics, p. 376.
Death rate 8.4 per 100K
Alabama 317 New Jersey 528
Alaska ? New Mexico 102
Arizona 256 New York 1,642
Arkansas 265 North Carolina 256
California 1,076 North Dakota 19
Colorado 155 Ohio 612
Connecticut 150 Oklahoma 163
Delaware 38 Oregon 75
District of Columbia 97 Pennsylvania 1,123
Florida 252 Rhode Island 51
Georgia 253 South Carolina 203
Hawaii ? South Dakota 34
Idaho 17 Tennessee 469
Illinois 797 Texas 736
Indiana 279 Utah 29
Iowa 84 Vermont 41
Kansas 96 Virginia 326
Kentucky 421 Washington 146
Louisiana 257 West Virginia 207
Maine 55 Wisconsin 183
Maryland 320 Wyoming 7
Massachusetts 445
Michigan 437
Minnesota 110 Yellow highlighting denotes top ten highest loss of life states.
Mississippi 170
Missouri 373
Montana 36
Nebraska 50
Nevada 30
New Hampshire 24

Source

Public Health Service. Vital Statistics of the United States 1955, Volume II, Mortality Data. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1957. Accessed 4-19-2023 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1955_2.pdf