Shawnee County KS Archives News.....Article: Huge Flu Death Toll. October 10, 1919
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The Topeka Daily State Journal, Friday, October 10, 1919 October 10, 1919
Huge Flu Death Toll.
More Than 600,000 Victim in U.S., Last Year.

More than 600,000 deaths from influenza and pneumonia were recorded last year,
according to the experience table recently issued by the Metropolitan Insurance
company. This figure is appalling when it is remembered that 600,000 persons is
almost equal to twenty full army divisions.
America's loss in the war was less than 80,000 or a little bit more than two
divisions--almost two and two-thirds division to be exact.
Another interesting feature of the report is the showing of the increase in
other diseases directly traceable to the flu epidemics. The women suffered
heaviest in the result. Diseases associated with childbirth increased a full 200
per cent during the last year. Heart disease increased 21 per cent and
tuberculosis increased 16 per cent.
In the state of Kansas the Metropolitan company paid death claims on account of
the ful and pneumonia in the sum of $125,116, this sum being represented by 717
policies. In the United States and Canada the company 120,204 claims for a total
of amount of $27, 604,475. Of the total number of claims the company gives the
actual number of deaths from flu and pneumonia as 83, 517.
The company states in its bulletin that this number of deaths was approximately
68,000 in excess of the number to be expected under normal conditions.











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