1899-1900, June-May, Tuberculosis, esp. NY/14.1K, PA/7.7K, IL/6.7K, OH/5.7K      109,750

Compiled by B. Wayne Blanchard, Dec 2012; modified Jan 2020, for website: Deadliest American Disasters and Large-Loss-Of-Life Events. https://www.usdeadlyevents.com/

 

–109,750  US Census. Census Reports Vol. IV…Vital Statistics of Deaths. Table 8, 1902, p.116.[1]

 

AL       2,666   (25,699 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 116.^[2]              

AZ          152   (  1,223 total deaths). Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 116.  

AR      1,889   (22,518 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 116.

CA      3,480   (22,506 total deaths). Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 117.   

CO         874   (  7,428 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 117.   

CT       1,529   (15,422 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 122.^[3]

DE          382   (  3,075 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 123.

DC         851   (  6,364 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 128.^[4]

FL          557   (  6,482 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 128.

GA      2,651   (26,941 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 128.^[5]

ID             86   (  1,242 total deaths). Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 129.

IL        6,786   (61,229 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 129.

–2,953  Chicago, calendar year. City of Chicago Municipal [TB] Sanitarium. 1915, p. 86.

IN        4,232   (33,586 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 134.

IA        1,805   (19,573 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 135.

KS       1,414   (16,251 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 140.^[6]

KY      3,916   (27,091 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 140.^[7]

LA       2,016   (20,955 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 141.^[8]

ME      1,145   (12,148 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 141.^[9]

MD     2,318   (20,422 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 146.^[10]

MA     5,224   (49,756 total deaths). Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 146.

MI       2,438   (33,572 total deaths). Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 159.

MN     1,844   (17,005 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 164.^[11]

MS      2,129   (20,251 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 165.

MO     4,107   (38,084 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 165.

MT        164    (  2,188 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 170.

NE          592   (  8,264 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 170.

NV           56   (     438 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 171.

NH         627   (  7,400 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 171.

NJ       3,392   (32,735 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 176.

—3514  Calendar year. NJ Board of Health. 31st Annual Report of… 1908, p. 10.[12]

NM        152   (  2,674 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 177.

NY    14,110   (130,268 total deaths).            Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 182.

          13,590  Calendar year. NY State Dept. of Health. 38^th Annual Report of… 1918, p. 540.[13]

8,162   NYC. “     “     NY State Dept. of Health. 38^th Annual Report of… 1918, p. 540.[14]

NC      2,350   (21,068 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 189.^[15]

ND         246   (  2,287 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 194.^[16]

OH      5,789   (53,362 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 194.

OK         288   (  3,181 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 200.

OR         433   (  3,396 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 200.^[17]

PA       7,791   (90,199 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 200.
2,717   Philadelphia. Calendar year. City of Philadelphia. An. Rpt. (V. III), 1907, p. 112.^[18]

RI           837   (  8,176 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 200.

SC       2,133   (17,166 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 200.^[19]  

SD          425   (  3,088 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 200.^[20]

TN       4,451   (30,572 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 200.

TX      2,951   (34,169 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 213.

UT          143   (  3,079 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 213.

VT          524   (  5,829 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 213.

VA      3,223   (25,252 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 218.^[21]  

WA        563   (  4,910 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 218.^[22]  

WV     1,273   (  9,588 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 219.  

WI      2,350   (24,928 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 219.^[23]    

WY          51   (     767 total deaths).  Census. Reports Vol. IV…Deaths. Table 7, 1902, p. 224.  

 

Sources

 

City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium: Its History and Provisions. Chicago: 1915. Google digitized at: http://books.google.com/books?id=5hhAAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

City of Philadelphia. First Annual Message of John E. Reyburn, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia with the Annual Reports of the Departments of Public Health and Charities, Supplies, Public Education, Law, City Controller, City Treasurer, Commissioners of the Sinking Funds, Receiver of Taxes, and Board of Revision of Taxes for the Year Ending December 31, 1907 (Vol. III). Philadelphia: Dunlap Printing Co., 1908. Google digitized. Assessed 12-5-2012: http://books.google.com/books?id=0ihNAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

New Jersey Board of Health. Thirty-First Annual Report of the Board of Health of the State of New Jersey, 1907, and Annual Report of the Bureau of Vital Statistics. Trenton: John L. Murphy Publishing Co., 1908. Google digitized at: http://books.google.com/books?id=XDAcX3uIVssC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

New York State Department of Health. Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the State Department of Health of New York For the Year Ending December 31, 1917 (Vol. 1). Albany: J. B. Lyon Co., 1918. Google preview accessed 6-3-2018 at: https://books.google.com/books?id=XE49AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

United States Census Office, Department of the Interior. Census Reports Volume IV, Twelfth Census of the United States, Taken in the Year 1900. Vital Statistics Part II, Statistics of Deaths. Washington: U.S. Census Office, 1902. At: http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[1] State death statistics are from Table 7. “Deaths in the United States, each State, State group and Registration city, during the Census year ending May 31, 1900, from each reported cause.” The Census year began on June 1, 1899, and ended May 31, 1900, thus the Census year and data are not reflective of the calendar year 1899 nor 1900.

[2] Leading cause of death in State in 1900, with pneumonia second.

[3] Leading cause of death in State in 1900, with pneumonia second.

[4] Leading cause of death in the District in 1900.

[5] Leading cause of death in State in 1900, with pneumonia a close second at 2,598.

[6] Second leading cause of death in the State in 1900, behind pneumonia at 1,436 deaths.

[7] Leading cause of death in State in 1900, with pneumonia second at 2,427 deaths.

[8] Leading cause of death in State in 1900, with pneumonia second at 1,945 deaths.

[9] Leading cause of death in State in 1900, with pneumonia a close second at 1,139 deaths.

[10] Leading cause of death in State in 1900.

[11] Leading cause of death in State in 1900, with pneumonia second at 1,379 deaths.

[12] “Table 6. – Showing Number of Deaths in New Jersey from Certain Classified Diseases for Twenty-Eight Years, 1879-1906.” p. 10.

[13] From: Table 19 — Movement of mortality from certain important causes of death in New York State, showing the annual number of deaths and death rates per 100,000 population: 1885-1917.

[14] From Table 21 — Comparative movement of mortality from the chief communicable diseases in New York city and rest of State, showing the annual number of deaths and death rates per 100,000 population: 1898-1917.

[15] Leading cause of death in State in 1900.

[16] Leading known cause of death in State in 1900

[17] Leading cause of death in State in 1900.

[18] Table entitled “Deaths from Consumption of Lungs, from 1862 to 1907, inclusive, by Months.”

[19] Leading cause of death in State in 1900, with pneumonia second with 1,323 deaths.

[20] Leading cause of death in State in 1900.

[21] Leading cause of death in State in 1900, with pneumonia second with 2,429 deaths.

[22] Leading cause of death in State in 1900, with pneumonia second with 379 deaths.

[23] Leading cause of death in State in 1900, with pneumonia second with 2,022 deaths.