1936 — Epidemic Cerebrospinal Meningitis, int. list #18, Census Bur. Mortality Statistics –3,020

Compiled by Wayne Blanchard; last edit 11-26-2024 for upload to: http://www.usdeadlyevents.com/

–3,020  U.S. Bureau of the Census. Mortality Statistics 1936, Table I, p. 12.

 Narrative Information

Bureau of the Census. Listed under heading I. Infectious and parasitic diseases…(Communicable diseases). Diseases due to bacteria (numbers 1-26).

Merriam-Webster: “Definition of cerebrospinal meningitis: inflammation of the meninges of both brain and spinal cord, specifically: an infectious often epidemic and fatal meningitis caused by the meningococcus.” (Merriam-Webster. “Cerebrospinal meningitis.” 2020.)

Sources

Merriam-Webster. “Cerebrospinal meningitis.” 2020. Accessed 1-31-2020 at: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cerebrospinal%20meningitis

United States Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce. Mortality Statistics 1936. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1938. Accessed 11-26-2024 at: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsushistorical/mortstatsh_1936.pdf