Washington—The national death rate in the United States will be placed by the commerce department at 11.9 per 100,000 population on the basis of figures for 1924 as compared with 12.3 in 1923, 11.8 in 1922 and 11.6 in 1921. The figures covered the entire death registration area of the country which accounts for about 88 per cent of the population. The number of deaths registered in this territory during 1924 was 1,173,990 out of 99,030,494 population.
In another statistical study made public, the department noted a further increase in the number of deaths due to automobile accidents in the principal cities of the United States. The total for the four weeks ending December 5 was 624, compared with 612 the preceding four weeks, 524 in the period ending October 10 and 521 in the one ending September 12, while in the period ending May 22, the total was only 421.
So far this year, the daily average of automobile fatalities was 124.7 while last year for the same period it was 14.5, but for the four weeks ending December 5, this year it jumped to 16.8.
Heart disease was found to have been the chief cause of death in the general registration area in 1924, accounting for 176,671 fatalities, a slight increase over the comparative figure for the preceding year.
Cancer, likewise, took a heavier toll in 1924 than in 1923, 91,941 deaths being attributed to this cause.
Tuberculosis deaths, on the other hand, showed a decline, numbering 90,724 in 1924 as compared with 900,732 in 1923.
Cerebral Hemorrhage, pneumonia, nephritis were other large factors in the mortality figures, while of 75,745 accidental deaths, automobiles alone caused 15,528, compared with 14,411 in 1923. Both suicides and murders increased, suicides totaling 12,061 in 1924 against 11,287 in 1924, and 8,420 against 7,878.
From page 3 of The News-Record, Marshall, Madison County, N.C., Jan. 1, 1926
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