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Buckeye Valley News And Buckeye Review
Buckeye, Maricopa County, Arizona
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The U.S. Census Bureau reported a slight rise in the national death rate to 10.9 per 1,000 in 1943 from 10.4 in 1942, attributed to an aging population due to wartime overseas duty and a severe December influenza epidemic. Leading causes included heart diseases (426,391 deaths), cancer (166,848), and others.
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WASHINGTON. — The United States death rate, reversing a long trend, rose slightly in 1943.
It went up even without counting the armed forces overseas.
The census bureau, announcing the 1943 figures, said two main reasons for the rise were:
1—Removal of great numbers of physically fit younger persons to overseas duty left behind a greater proportion of older persons.
2—There was a bad influenza epidemic in December, 1943.
The 1943 rate was 10.9 per 1,000 estimated population. In 1942 it had been 10.4, the lowest ever recorded for the United States.
Deaths from the five leading causes were: heart diseases 426,391; cancer and other malignant tumors 166,848; cerebral hemorrhages 127,300; nephritis, a kidney disease, 99,267; pneumonia and influenza 90,115.
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United States
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1943
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death rate rose to 10.9 per 1,000 population; leading causes: heart diseases 426,391 deaths, cancer and other malignant tumors 166,848, cerebral hemorrhages 127,300, nephritis 99,267, pneumonia and influenza 90,115.
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The United States death rate rose slightly in 1943, even without counting armed forces overseas, due to removal of younger persons to duty leaving more older persons and a bad influenza epidemic in December 1943. The 1943 rate was 10.9 per 1,000 estimated population, up from 10.4 in 1942.