Regional and Racial Inequality in Infectious Disease Mortality in U.S. Cities, 1900 –1948

We report three main results. First, urban infectious mortality was higher in the South in every year from 1900 to 1948. Second, infectious mortality declined later in southern cities than in cities in the other regions. Third, comparatively high infectious mortality in southern cities was driven primarily by extremely high infectious mortality among African Americans. From 1906 to 1920, African Americans in cities experienced a rate of death from infectious disease that was greater than what urban whites experienced during the 1918 flu pandemic.

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Source: Demography - June 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research