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Th e table below indicates the death rates in various age groups based on the estimated midyear population. Note the rise in the death rate among young people in the population as opposed to the very young and the very old during 1918, the year of the influenza epidemic.
| Deaths per 1,000: | 1910 | 1915 | 1918 | 1919 |
| Under one year | 131.4 | 102.4 | 111.7 | 91.0 |
| 1-4 | 14.0 | 9.2 | 15.7 | 9.3 |
| 5-14 | 2.9 | 2.3 | 4.1 | 2.7 |
| 15-24 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 10.7 | 5.3 |
| 25-34 | 6.5 | 5.8 | 16.4 | 7.5 |
| 35-44 | 9.0 | 8.3 | 13.4 | 8.6 |
| 45-54 | 13.7 | 13.1 | 15.2 | 12.3 |
| 55-64 | 26.2 | 25.5 | 26.5 | 23.1 |
| 65-74 | 55.6 | 55.6 | 55.0 | 50.0 |
| 75-84 | 122.2 | 120.1 | 113.0 | 107.8 |
| 85+ | 250.3 | 240.3 | 222.1 | 222.2 |
| All ages | 14.7 | 13.2 | 18.1 | 12.9 |
Source: Historical Statistics of the United States 1789-1945 (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of the Census, 1949), pp. 48-49.
Sources:
Richard Harrison Shryock, The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1936);
Paul Starr, The Social Transformation of American Medicine (New York: Basic Books, 1982).
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