Show principal causes of deatel the department of commerce jann announces ounces that the census bureaus annual report on mortality statistics which will be issued shortly shows deaths as having cecur occurred red in 1920 within the death registration area of continental united states representing a death rate of 0 per 1000 population as compared with in 1919 which was the lowest rate recorded in any year since the registration area was established in ili 1900 the death rate from pneumonia from 1235 per in 1919 to 11 1373 73 in 1920 for chronic diseases of the heart the rate increased horn 1310 to 1419 for cancer from to S sa some som of the other diseases for which the rate increased are whooping cough measles cerebral hemorrhage congenital debility and malformations puerperal fever fc carlet lever fever and appendicitis the fatalities caused by automobile accidents and injuries show an increase from 94 per in 1919 to in 1920 A marked decrease is shown in the death rate from tuberculosis which was 1142 in ili 1920 as compared with 1256 in 1919 also in the death rate from influenza in 1920 as against the year before the death rate from suicide declined from 11 4 in 1919 to in 1920 there was a decline also in the rate for typhoid fever and in that for accidental drowning |