Relative death rates
2016-03-08 21:20:12.608318+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Tossed this in here because I googled for it when someone on Facebook posted a receipt for childbirth from 1943. That's an even amazingly better improvement than I expected. A
... And in 1943 the mortality rate for infants was 4144.5 per 100,000 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/vsus_1945_1.pdf , in 2013 it was 596.1 per 100,000 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr65/nvsr65_02.pdf
Also notable: The modern death rate per 100k in the general is 821.5. In 1900 it was 17.2 per thousand or 17,200 per 100k, looks like '43 was about 10.6 per 1,000, with women in the high single digits per thousand, men higher, some of that difference being accounted for by war deaths.
So our death rate per hundred thousand is down over an order of magnitude vs a century ago.