Show 18 DEATHS PER 1000 POPULATION Census Statistics on Mortality l ty tv J in United States Are Received Here I I Mortality statistics issued b by the census bureau show that in the year ear 1918 there IS deaths per 1000 the total number being the highest highest highest high high- est rate on record in the thc the bureau Tho death registration covered cred an In area comprising comprising comprising com com- thirty states the District of oC Columbia an and twenty seven registration registration tion lion cities in states with a total estimated population of or 77 S per cent o of tho the esI es- es I population of oC the tho United I States The bulletin which was received ed by byI Gov GO Simon Bamberger yesterday shows hows a gratifying decline In the tho I deaths from t typhoid fever the number b- b being 1 5 per which demonstrates demonstrates demon- demon strates in a a. a striking manner the effi- effi Sency clency o of improved sanitation and use of or vaccine Organic diseases of or the tho heart cluse caused deaths tuberculosis 1220 10 of oC which were vere due to tuberculosis of oC the lungs tho the rate declining from 2007 per In 1901 to 1416 In 1916 Durin During the tho period from 1914 1 to 1918 1915 the number lumber of oC deaths deaths' from tuberculosis Was vas less Jess than from tram heart hart disease Accidents and deaths from all external external exter exter- nal causes Including suicide and homicide homicide homicide homi homi- cide aggregated which corresponded corresponded corre corresponded corre- corre to a rate of or 1006 per population n. n Automobile accidents were responsible for or 9 92 per and ind tho the bulletin suggests that this toll shows the the nee need for tor bettor better traffic regu- regu atlon lation Street car accidents caused 2366 deaths while accidents in mines caused 2197 deaths the number of or suicides suicides sui- sui was tho the lowest since 1903 the number being 1 |