{"id":778,"date":"2014-03-30T12:20:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T19:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity-preprod.uvic.ca\/spanishflu\/?page_id=778"},"modified":"2018-11-14T21:04:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T21:04:05","slug":"comparing-deaths-rates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/spanishflu\/statistical-information\/comparing-deaths-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Death rates in other cities"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n

The following chart shows the death rate from Spanish Influenza in Vancouver at 23.3 per 1,000 per annum. That’s ten times higher than Victoria’s 2.3 per 1000 for 1918-19. (See How Victoria fared<\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\"draft<\/a>Sources [amplified]: Calculations were based on figures from: Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., Epidemic and Peace, 1918 <\/i>(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976), <\/i>pp. 60-61. Ontario, Thirty-Eighth Annual Report of the Provincial Board of Health of Ontario, Canada for the Year 1919 <\/i>(Toronto: Printer to the King, 1920), p. 236. City of Winnipeg, op. cit., <\/i>p. 10. The Vancouver Daily Province, <\/i>17 February 1919, p. 7. City of Vancouver, Annual Report for Year Ending December 31, 1918<\/i>, p. 73.<\/p>\n

Adapted from Table 1 of Margaret W. Andrews, \u201cEpidemic and Public Health: Influenza in Vancouver, 1918-1919.\u201d BC Studies<\/i>, No. 34, Summer 1977, pp. 21-44.<\/span><\/p>\n

Death figures gathered for the four-and-a-half month term under study \u2014 for many cities far the worst time in the life of the pandemic \u2014 were converted to a rate per annum, but how is not made clear in the text.<\/span><\/p>\n

A much lower death rate was derived for Vancouver in the M.Sc. thesis of Sarah Buchanan, Spanish Influenza in the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, 1918-1919<\/i> (UVic Geography department, 2012). Using available population numbers and a total of 934 deaths from influenza \u2014 but not pneumonia \u2014 reported in the City of Vancouver in 1918-19, \u201cthe mortality rate from influenza for the total population of Vancouver was 8.3 per 1,000 for 1918-19\u201d (pp 49-50).<\/p>\n

<How Victoria fared<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Lost to the Spanish flu<\/a>><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following chart shows the death rate from Spanish Influenza in Vancouver at 23.3 per 1,000 per annum. That’s ten times higher than Victoria’s 2.3 per 1000 for 1918-19. (See How Victoria fared.) Sources [amplified]: Calculations were based on figures from: Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., Epidemic and Peace, 1918 (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1976), pp. … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Death rates in other cities”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1583,"featured_media":0,"parent":1274,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-778","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/spanishflu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/spanishflu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/spanishflu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/spanishflu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1583"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/spanishflu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/spanishflu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/spanishflu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/778\/revisions\/1525"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/spanishflu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/spanishflu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}