Raleigh, Aug. 17—North Carolina contributed more than its quota to the crime wave of the nation during the past year, 299 deaths being designated as homicides in returns made on death certificates filed with the State Board of Health for 1924. Chicago, with a record or more than a murder per day for the year, may have led the county, but this State ranks well up in the forefront.
Typhoid fever not so long ago was a large factor in the death rate of the State. It has been one of the causes of death against which both states and local health authorities have aged a major offensive. Now murder and automobile accidents each levies a greater annual toll of human life than does this once prevalent and dreaded disease
The records show more than double the number of negro victims among the homicides as compared with the whites. The distribution is 94 white, 201 negro, and 4 Indian.
The homicides are divided into four classifications. Of the total, 235 were killed with firearms, 47 by knives or other piercing instruments, 6 were babies killed closely following birth, and 11 were killed by other means.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Monday, Aug. 17, 1925
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