BULLETS MORE FATAL THAN INFLUENZA GERM
CHICAGO’S MURDER BATE. ONE IN 79 MEET VIOLENT ' END IN 1928. Unitod Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Eeceived Monday, 2 a.m. CHICAGO, March 2. The Health Department has announced that there were 498 murders in the city in 1928. Homicides far outrank some of the common diseases and even surpass deaths from influenza.. The killing rate is 16.1 per cent, per 100,000, or every 79 persons, one was killed by violence.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6850, 4 March 1929, Page 7
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76BULLETS MORE FATAL THAN INFLUENZA GERM Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6850, 4 March 1929, Page 7
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