Show AT TilE THE HEAD Leading Causes of Death in the United States Given in Census Report June of the lun lungs a and pneumonia were th the lend c lag ing cuse causes of deth death in the Unie United Ste according to H a special report on mortality in lo Issued today by te the CC census bu reu roan Te The statistic statistics are restricted to thoe those cite cities and states which p possess r roe affording satisfactory data the state states covered bing being Connecticut Inia Indiana Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire New ew Jere Jersey New York Rhoe Rhode Island Vermont together with the District of Columbia Columbia They an and the 33 cite cities report reporting ing embraced moe more than of the estimated population of the tho Unite United States The deth death rte rate pr per 10 1000 in the registration area wa was tha than in any foreign country except Noray Norway and Sween Sweden The report says The average annual mortalIty for tu tuberculosis from lr 1900 to 1 w was l 8 pr per of population In ISO it was More than half of the deaths fro from this cuse cause occurred betwee between the age ages of 20 and 4 40 The majority of the deth deaths were re among males The number of deth deaths was greatest In March and April and lest least In September and the mortality was was much greater eter in the cities than In the rural districts I It was highest in Rhoe Rhode ml ad and New York and New Jersey an and lw low et eat In Michigan Vermont and New Hamp Hampshire shire average anual annual mortality from consumption was highest in Denver Dener New Ores Orleans San Francisco Washinton Washington erk N 3 J Baltimore and Cincinnati and lowest in St Joeph Joseph Mo Io Scranton Omaha Detroit Detroit S1 St Paul Buffalo and Minneapolis The net next leading cus cause of death were diarrhoea and and then heart disease cancer and tn typhoid hoid fever |