843 –15,146

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— 82 AK. US PHS Vital Statistics of the US 1954: Vol. I. …Tables for Alaska, Hawaii…, p. 30.
— 40 HI. US PHS Vital Statistics of the US 1954: Vol. I. …Tables for Alaska, Hawaii…, p. 34.
–15,024 States. US PHS Vital Statistics of the US 1954: Vol. II – Mortality Statistics, p. 370.
–15,146 Total. Yellow highlighting denotes top ten highest loss of life states.
Death rate 8.4 per 100K

Alabama 366 Montana 52
Alaska 82 Nebraska 48
Arizona 244 Nevada 22
Arkansas 282 New Hampshire 28
California 1,108 New Jersey 489
Colorado 145 New Mexico 102
Connecticut 144 New York 1,667
Delaware 37 North Carolina 309
District of Columbia 100 North Dakota 21
Florida 267 Ohio 688
Georgia 303 Oklahoma 219
Hawaii 40 Oregon 75
Idaho 22 Pennsylvania 1,100
Illinois 939 Rhode Island 70
Indiana 347 South Carolina 248
Iowa 80 South Dakota 43
Kansas 104 Tennessee 503
Kentucky 471 Texas 843
Louisiana 295 Utah 27
Maine 68 Vermont 41
Maryland 347 Virginia 401
Massachusetts 473 Washington 156
Michigan 467 West Virginia 235
Minnesota 126 Wisconsin 205
Mississippi 196 Wyoming 14
Missouri 484

Sources

Public Health Service. U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare. Vital Statistics of the US 1954: 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, 1956. Accessed 5-4-2023 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1954_1.pdf

Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Vital Statistics of the United States 1954, Volume II, Mortality Data. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956. Accessed 5-4-2023 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1954_1.pdf