1918 — Typhoid Fever, 33 Registration States, DC and Puerto Rico, esp. TX/1,057 –9,100
–9,100 US Public Health Service. Annual Rpt. of the Surgeon General…1919. 1919, p. 196.[1]
AL 598 Table on Typhoid Fever Cases and Deaths per designated State, 1918, p. 196.
AR 243 “
CA 194 “
CO —- “
CT 75 “
DC 48 “
IL 533 “
IN 396 “
KS 284 “
LA 691 “
ME 58 “
MD 237 “
MA 158 “
MI 321 “
MN 88 “
MS 599 “
MT —- “
NJ 162 “
NY 576 “
ND 26 “ TX 1,057 “
OH 771 “ UT 39 “
OR 70 “ VE 31 “
PA 924 “ VA —- “
PR 157 “ WA 98 “
RI 35 “ WV — “
SC 482 “ WI 94 “
SD 37 “ WY 18 “
“In 35 States during 1918, 40,148 cases of typhoid fever were reported, with a case rate of 0.5 per 1,000 population, while in 1917 51,422 cases were reported, with a rate of 0.6….Deaths registered in 31 States during 1918 were 9,100 with a rate of 0.12 per 1,000 population. The number of fatalities per 100 cases reported in these States is 25.09….The case and death rates from Typhoid fever have been decreasing for a number of years. The disease is controllable, and the results of the efforts which have been and are now being made to control it afford a striking example of the possible saving of suffering and lives as the result of intelligent work for the protection of the public health.” (p. 195)
[1] United States Public Health Service. Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States for the Fiscal Year 1919 (Treasury Department Document No. 2859). Washington, DC: GPO, 1919. Google digitized at: http://books.google.com/books?id=ENQgAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false