1945 — Measles, especially children                                                           —   307

Compiled 1-3-2024 by Wayne Blanchard for upload to: http://www.usdeadlyevents.com/

–307  US PHS. Vital Statistics… Special Reports…Mortality Statistics [U.S.], 1945, 13[1]

–307  US Public Health Service. Vital Statistics of the United States 1946, Part I.[2]

Source

United States Public Health Service. Vital Statistics – Special Reports National Summaries, Volume 27, Numbers 1 to 54, 1945. Washington, DC: US PHS, National Office of Vital Statistics, Federal Security Agency, 1949. Google digitized. Accessed 1-31-2015 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=XxwvAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

United States Public Health Service, Federal Security Agency. Vital Statistics of the United States 1946, Part I. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, Washington: 1948. Accessed 11-3-2024 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/VSUS_1946_1.pdf

[1] Specifically from Vol. 27, No. 2. “Deaths and Death Rates for Each Cause, United States, 1943-45.” 5-16-1947

[2] Summary and Rate Tables. Table V. Deaths From Each Cause and Crude Death Rates: United Satates, 1944 and 1945, p. 9