Mortality Statistics 1918 TOGETHER WITH Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe Medicale des Hopitaux de Paris, Annee 1918.

1918 MORTALITY STATISTICS FOR US AND FRANCE: 2 VOLUMES CHRONICLE THE INFLUENZA PANDEMIC ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC.

1) Mortality Statistics 1918. 12 inches tall hardcover, publisher's navy blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, handstamp of "surplus Library of Congress duplicate" to front endpaper, no other library marks, pages age-toned, unmarked, overall very good. From the Introduction: "In the 1917 report it was pointed out that, even if no correction in the population were made for the withdrawal of enlisted men, this withdrawal from the civil population of so many young men to enter our Army and Navy would normally reduce the general death rate of any area very little, because of the usual low death rates of young adult males. This contention which held true for 1917, has been very much upset for 1918 by the influenza pandemic which caused such very high mortality among young adults. However, no attempt has been made in this report to correct the death rates on account of this withdrawal of enlisted men from the general population, but it is very evident that such withdrawal must have resulted in a much smaller number of deaths in certain areas than would otherwise have occurred. ... . The death rate is 18 per 1,000 population, based on an estimated midyear population of 81,868,104. This rate exceeds the rates for 1916 (14) and 1917 (14.2) and owing to the influenza pandemic, is higher than that for any year since the publication of the annual reports beginning in 1900."

2) Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe Medicale des Hopitaux de Paris, Annee 1918. 10 inches tall 2 inches thick hardcover, tan buckram binding, gilt red leather label, marbled edges, bookplate to front paste-down, handstamp to front endpaper "surplus Library of Congress duplicate," no other library marks; covers soiled, pages age-toned and brittle, overall good+. Text in French. This volume contains the minutes of the meetings of the Medical Society of the Hospitals of Paris from 11 January to 20 December 1918. The records reveal an increase in virulence of influenza from May to July, with severity greater than the 1889-90 epidemic. By October, the epidemic was spreading rapidly, striking mainly victims 15 to 35 years of age. The symptoms were primarily pulmonary, with secondary infections of streptococcus and staphylococcus. Both civilian and military populations were infected, with an incubation period of only 2 to 3 days.

The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Although there is not universal consensus regarding where the virus originated, it spread worldwide during 1918-1919. In the United States, it was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world's population became infected with this virus. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html