From Monroe Lerner and Odin W. Anderson,
Health Progress in the United States, 1900-1960
(University of Chicago Press, 1963)

By mid-century, statistical portraits of Americans’ health indicated that many feared diseases were, as popular images had depicted, in decline. This chart was one of many created by mid-century observers to show the decline in mortality from communicable diseases such as influenza, pneumonia, and tuberculosis. It appeared in a scholarly analysis of the profound transition in Americans' health status and the situation of American medicine.

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