1956 – Tuberculosis (respiratory), esp. NY/1,577, PA/1,029, CA/938, IL/763, TX/729 –12,978

–12,384 USPHS Vital Statistics of the US 1956: Vol. II – Mortality Statistics, p. 380.
Death rate 8.4 per 100K
Alabama 309 New Jersey 477
Alaska ? New Mexico 91
Arizona 200 New York 1,557
Arkansas 228 North Carolina 242
California 938 North Dakota 15
Colorado 127 Ohio 617
Connecticut 127 Oklahoma 173
Delaware 30 Oregon 64
District of Columbia 93 death rate 16.9 Pennsylvania 1,029
Florida 244 Rhode Island 59
Georgia 253 South Carolina 186
Hawaii ? South Dakota 37
Idaho 28 Tennessee 429
Illinois 763 Texas 729
Indiana 297 Utah 30
Iowa 84 Vermont 37
Kansas 53 Virginia 292
Kentucky 376 Washington 115
Louisiana 238 West Virginia 205
Maine 57 Wisconsin 173
Maryland 334 Wyoming 11
Massachusetts 415
Michigan 446
Minnesota 103 Yellow highlighting denotes top ten highest loss of life states.
Mississippi 163
Missouri 378
Montana 38
Nebraska 46
Nevada 19
New Hampshire 23

Sources

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Public Health Service. Vital Statistics of the United States 1956, Volume II, Mortality Data. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1958. Accessed 3-31-2023 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1956_2.pdf