Washington—Declines from the death rate from heart disease, influenza and pneumonia, and tuberculosis in all its forms, the three principal causes of death in the United States, were the prominent outstanding features of 1921, which shows the lowest-death rate recorded in any year since the beginning of the annual compilations in 1900, the census bureau announced. Increases were shown in the rate for cancer, automobile accidents and injuries, diphtheria, typhoid, Suicide and homicide, and several other causes.
“While in 1921 the death rate was 11.6 per 1,000, compared with 13.1 in 1920, a higher rate for 1922 is indicted in the reports from that period. Those rates are for the registration area of continental United States, comprising 34 states, the District of Columbia, and 16 cities in non-registration states, with a total estimated population on July 1 of 88,667,662, or 82.2 per cent of the estimated population of the United States on that date, which was 109,248,393.
“the total number of deaths in the registration area was 1,032,000, compared with 1,142,558 in 1920. The rate per 100,000 was 1,163.9, compared with 1,306 in 1920. Based on the death rate for the registration area the number of deaths for the whole United States for 1921 approximates 1,271,444.
“Heart diseases were responsible for one-eighth of all deaths or 130,351 deaths in 1921, but the rate per 100,000 declined from 149.7 to 147. Influenza and pneumonia in all forms caused 86,458 deaths compared with 182,205 in 1920, the rate declining from 208.8 to 99.8. Tuberculosis in all its forms resulted in 88,135 deaths compared with 99,916 in 1920, the rate declining from 114.2 to 99.4. Cancer and other malignant tumors were responsible for 76,274 deaths compared with 72,931 in 1920.
“Automobile accidents and injuries resulted in 10,163 deaths, compared with 9,103, the rate increasing from 10.4 to 11.5 per 100,000 people. Suicides numbered 11,136 compared with 8,859 in 1920, the rate increasing from 10.2 to 12.6 Of the suicides 4,122 were by firearms, 712 by cutting or piercing instruments, 1,942 by hanging or strangulation, 1,739 by poison, 1,401 by asphyxiation, 710 by drowning, 271 by jumping from high places, 130 by crushing, and 109 by other means. Homicides also increased numbering 7,545, compared with 6,205 in 1920, the rate increasing from 7.1 to 8.5. Firearms accounted for 5,509 of the homicides, cutting and piercing instruments 768 and other means 1,260.
“Declines were shown in the number of deaths from railroad accidents and injuries, mine accidents and injuries, machinery accidents and injuries, street car accidents and injuries.”
From the front page of The Roanoke Beacon, Plymouth, N.C., Friday, January 5, 1923
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