By Mike Simmons
On Saturday, January 11, 1930, the Pensacola News Journal reported the deaths in Pensacola from the previous year.
523 people died in the Pensacola area in 1929
46 people died of Pneumonia
34 died from heart disease
34 died from influenza
21 died of tuberculosis
20 from “brain trouble”
16 from pellagra (a deficiency of niacin)
5 from malaria
4 from paralysis
9 people died of senility or “old age”
2 from cancer
1 from gangrene
Typhoid fever, pleurisy and intestinal trouble took a nominal toll
Accidental falls accounted for 10 deaths
8 died in airplane crashes
13 in Automobile Accidents
8 were shot to death
3 died of poisoning
One was stabbed to death
One was electrocuted to death
Two were burned to death
8 drowned
One killed in a streetcar accident
A steel wound caused one death
One was killed by an explosion
Okay, a few caused me to raise an eyebrow…
- How do you die from a deficiency of niacin?
- Died from paralysis? Maybe breathing was paralyzed…?
- EIGHT people died in airplane crashes in one year? In Pensacola?
- What does it mean for a person to die from a “steel wound?”
- 20 people died of “brain trouble?” I know a lot of people who suffer from that today, but it doesn’t kill them.
Mike
Only two from cancer.
Only two from cancer.