Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1918 — TOLL OF OVER 82,000 DEATHS [ARTICLE]

TOLL OF OVER 82,000 DEATHS

From Recent Terrible Epidemic of Influenza. Unofficial estimates of the deaths caused from the recent epidemic of influenza, based on reports from forty-six cities having a combined population of 23,000,000 people, shows 82,306 deaths, where normally they would have had but 4,000 deaths during the same period. This is a greater number of deaths than were caused among the American Expeditionary Forces in France from all causes up to the time hostilities ceased.