Show EPIDEMIC IC CAUSE OF MANY DEATHS Mortality i Rate of Large Cities of Country Is Raised to S f Washington Jan S epidemic which swept the the country clur- clur Ing lug the tho latter part of ot last year caused j deaths In the six forty largest I I cities and Inci Increased eased the combined death rate rate- for tor those c communities in 1918 to I Irate per thousand according to statis statis- r matlo public toda today by the census bureau Total figures for the thc country countr ere vere not available a Baltimore with 26 GS S per thousand nd anti and Nashville with had the tho high high- oat emt t rates rates' of ot the registration cities while St. St Paul with and and ami Grand with 11 I-i each had the tho lowest Grand Rapids showed tho the smallest increase the death rate for tor i having been Thero were Fro a deaths dc In tho the for for- t six tv cities the estimated d population of oe two forty of or which aggregated 20 rui A 0 rh u u. u nu tin nn nf of I H population for tor the thc other othor four Deaths from influenza totaled tj 3 with 42 12 deaths from Crom pneumonia The Tho years year's ears total death rate in New NewYork NewYork ew York CIl City wa was 18 ISS S pOI per thousand compared compared com corn pared with l 15 12 2 2 for Cor 1917 i. i In Irm Chicago It was wan 1 17 il 1 against 14 9 tho thu thu year eal be before be- be toro fore arid and In Philadelphia tho the Influenza epidemic was very 8 severe se tn tJ 10 it was compared with lil In ilL 1 1917 Thu Tho rate In Cleveland Cle waa tas for last year onT and anti 13 y in 1917 Boston Hoston 20 arid and i St St. Louis 1765 1705 and Pittsburgh Pitts- Pitts burgh 11 25 4 and 18 and amid Los Angeles Angolo lG and antl 1 In San Francisco the rate rat was 10 compared with HiO for tor 1917 In Buffalo Buffa Burell- lo ho n. n and nUll Milwaukee H l 14 and l Newark N N. N J. J and 42 1 Cincinnati Cincinnati Cin Cm- and und Washington 26 and antl 4 I |