Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1920 — 477,467 DIED IN 1916 FLU WAVE [ARTICLE]

477,467 DIED IN 1916 FLU WAVE

Washington, Feb. 2.—The rate in the United States for 1918 was tihe highest oii record, according to the census bureau’s annua! mortality statistics issued today, which representing a rate of 18per I.W of population in the death r ostra tion area of thirty states and twen-ty-seven cities ranted nonulation of 81,ooo,iua. W ffe total deatoa 477,467, or over 32 per cent, were du^' months of toe year. The rate for influenza »nd pnemrtronia was 588.2 per cent 100,000.