During the month of December, the Grim Reaper took a toll of 75 lives in Raleigh.
Heart disease again led the list with a total of 12 while pneumonia came second with six. Stillborns and premature births accounted for six each. Nine deaths were from physical causes. Of these, two were murdered; two killed in automobile accidents, one by suicide, one accidentally fell down an elevator shaft, one was poisoned, one was accidentally burned, and one died from suffocation.
The death rate was highest with male whites, with 25; while female whites came second with 23. Fourteen negro males and 13 females died during the month.
The oldest person to be claimed by death was a negro woman 90 years of age, who died of sensility (maybe senility?) A premature born negro male, who lived five minutes, had the shortest sojourn.
From the front page of The Zebulon Record, Friday, Jan. 15, 1926
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