Comment: For boys and girls aged 5 to 14 years, the highest mortality rate ever recorded was that of 1849, the year of a great cholera epidemic.
The influenza pandemic in 1918 returned mortality rates briefly to the levels of 1884, for boys, and of 1875, for girls. The 1918 mortality rate was 9% higher for girls than for boys.
Method: Mortality rates were downloaded from the Human Mortality Database (see www.mortality.org or
www.humanmortality.de)
on 4 December 2009. The plotted lines connect unsmoothed values.
Comment: For boys and girls aged 5 to 14 years, the highest mortality rate ever recorded was that of 1849, the year of a great cholera epidemic. The influenza pandemic in 1918 returned mortality rates briefly to the levels of 1884, for boys, and of 1875, for girls. The 1918 mortality rate was 9% higher for girls than for boys.
Method: Mortality rates were downloaded from the Human Mortality Database (see www.mortality.org or www.humanmortality.de) on 4 December 2009. The plotted lines connect unsmoothed values.