Death rates for typhoid fever in the U. S. 1906 – 1960

* Death rates in the 20th century

Death rates in the 20th century from natural causes, including disease and malnutrition, plummeted in wealthier countries.

Death rates in the hypothermia group were 14 % lower, meaning that for every 7 patients treated one life was saved.

Death rates had surpassed 15. 6 fatalities per 100 million vehicle-miles and were continuing to climb.

Death rates may remain consistently low or increase slightly due to increases in lifestyle diseases due to low exercise levels and high obesity and an aging population in developed countries.

Death rates have dropped since the mid-twentieth century ; in Sweden poisoning is common, though life-threatening poisonings have not been detected and there was no fatality reported over the 50 years from 1952 to 2002.

* Death rates in several Asian nations, 1960 to 1994.

The Middle Ages saw a decrease in prosperity, stability and population in the first centuries of the period — to about 800, and then a fairly steady and general increase until the massive setback of the Black Death around 1350, which is estimated to have killed at least a third of the overall population in Europe, with generally higher rates in the south and lower in the north.

Death rates for the German civilians doing forced labor in the Soviet Union ranged between 19 % – 39 %, depending on category.

Death rates among slaves were high.

Death rates during outbreaks were usually extremely high, approaching 100 % in immunologically naïve populations.

Death rates inside ghettos from disease and malnourishment were high ; groups from the ghetto were periodically taken away and shot or deported to extermination camps.

* a march from Stalag VIII-B, known as the " Lamsdorf Death March ", which was similar to the better-known Bataan Death March ( 1942 ) in terms of mortality rates.

Death rates in some of the remote and rural areas in Perm Krai are very high, never seen before during times other than major wars or natural calamities.

Death rates from heart attack and stroke are 29 % and 40 % higher, respectively, among African Americans than whites

The high mortality rates due to the remoteness of the area from effective medical treatment cut a swath through so many families that a street once called merely Shade or Shades Road due to its tree cover took on the name Shades Of Death out of black humor.

Most notably are the characters of Dr. Eric Leidner in Murder in Mesopotamia, Signor Richetti in Death on the Nile, and many minor characters in They Came to Baghdad were archaeologists.

Up until the 1950s, Abensberg and the surrounding villages contained a number of graves of victims of a Death March in the Spring of 1945 from the Hersbruck sub-camp of the Dachau concentration camp, who were either murdered by the SS or died of exhaustion.

Prior to the bubonic plague epidemic known as the Black Death, Mongol and Turkish armies were reported to have catapulted disease-laden corpses into besieged cities.

The late author Sheldon H. Harris in his book " Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American cover up " wrote that, The test program, could be part of Project AGILE or Project OCONUS which began in fall 1962 and which was funded at least through fiscal year 1963, was considered by the Chemical Corps to be “ an ambitious one .” The tests were designed to cover “ not only trials at sea, but Arctic and tropical environmental tests as well .” The tests, presumably, were conducted at what research officers designated, but did not name, “ satellite sites .” These sites were located both in the continental United States and in foreign countries.

Although there were several competing theories as to the etiology of the Black Death, recent analysis of DNA from victims in northern and southern Europe indicates that the pathogen responsible was the Yersinia pestis bacterium, which causes the Bubonic plague, although these were different, previously unknown ancestral variants of those identified in the 20th century.

On October 1973, at least 72 people were murdered by the Caravan of Death.

When populations were quickly decreased by causes such as the Black Death or devastating warfare ( for example, Genghis Khan's Mongol hordes in eastern and central Europe, Thirty Years ' War in Germany ), this could lead to settlements being abandoned.

The deathly horrors of the 14th century — such as recurring famines ; the Hundred Years ' War in France ; and, most of all, the Black Death — were culturally assimilated throughout Europe.

It is possible that the Maccabean Martyrs were commemorated in some early French plays or that people just associated the book ’ s vivid descriptions of the martyrdom with the interaction between Death and its prey.

At his death, some portraits were auctioned in Paris, they sold for little ; the famous Death of Marat was exhibited in a secluded room, to avoid outraging public sensibilities.

In 1349, during the wave of pogroms which followed the Black Death across Europe, the Jews of Erfurt were rounded up, with more than 100 killed and the rest driven from the city.

The war years also saw the flowering of the Powell and Pressburger partnership with films like 49th Parallel ( 1941 ), The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ) and A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ) which, while set in wartime, were very much about the people affected by war rather than battles.

Among the most significant films produced during this period were David Lean's Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) and his Dickens adaptations Great Expectations ( 1946 ) and Oliver Twist ( 1948 ), Carol Reed's thrillers Odd Man Out ( 1947 ) and The Third Man ( 1949 ), and Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ), Black Narcissus ( 1946 ) and The Red Shoes ( 1948 ).

The wastes of Gallifrey include the Death Zone, an area that was used as a gladiatorial arena by the first Time Lords, pitting various species kidnapped from their respective time zones against each other ( although Daleks and Cybermen were considered too dangerous to use ).

Punk historian Ian Glasper indicates that " For several months gob-smacked audiences weren't sure whether Napalm Death were actually a serious band any longer, such was the undeniable novelty of their hyper-speed new drummer.

" Lee Dorian of Napalm Death indicated that " Unfortunately, I think the same thing happened to grindcore, if you want to call it that, as happened to punk rock-all the great original bands were just plagiarised by a billion other bands who just copied their style identically, making it no longer original and no longer extreme.

As early Napalm Death albums were not widely distributed in the United States, American groups tended to take inspiration from later works, such as Harmony Corruption.

Around 1350 Germany and almost the whole of Europe were ravaged by the Black Death.

Death tolls were high.

During the Black Death, many Jews were murdered after being accused of poisoning wells.

The French population had not recovered from the Black Death of the previous century and its merchants were isolated from foreign markets.

In the Doctor Who serial The Green Death ( 1973 ), The Doctor temporarily stumps BOSS by asking it " If I were to tell you that the next thing I say would be true, but the last thing I said was a lie, would you believe me?

Much of Latveria was destroyed and the population severely reduced by an attack executed by the Marquis of Death ( aka " Dooms Master ").

Serfdom became progressively less common through the Middle Ages, particularly after the Black Death reduced the rural population and increased the bargaining power of workers.

Rather it would have had to have been so well entrenched in its ancient speech form that it held over from the times of pestilence and Black Death when settlers were reduced to meager numbers.

In 1349, the Black Death, which wiped out a third of the population of England, attacked the village and the population greatly reduced, with parts becoming abandoned altogether.

Haveringdon's population is believed to have been greatly reduced by the Bubonic Plague ( Black Death ) in the 1340s.

Philippe de Champaigne's Vanitas ( c. 1671 ) is reduced to three essentials: Life, Death, and Time

After an outbreak of the Black Death in 1347, which greatly reduced the population, an order of Franciscan monks established a presence in the city.

In the VHS release, the title was simply reduced to The Curse of Fatal Death.

The Black Death hit the Abbey hard, with the number of monks and conversi much reduced.

Alresford sent two members to parliament until the population was reduced by the Black Death.

As archbishop during the first two outbreaks of the Death, Islip took great pains to regulate clerical stipends, as the greatly reduced number of clerics had led them to charge increased fees for their services.

Death sentences then were reprieved ; some of the sentenced went to serve their time to Siberia, some to prisons ( Dostoyevsky's eight-year sentence was later reduced to four years by Nicholas I ).

The collection from which it came, Death to Art ( 1913 ), contained fifteen very short poems that gradually reduced in size from one line, to one word, one letter, and ultimately to Poem of the End.

The Black Death of 1348-9 reduced the number of adults to 34, but this gradually increased to about 400 in 1900.

One portion of the road at the bottle-neck near the Mutla Ridge police station has been reduced to a long uninterrupted line of more than 300 stuck and abandoned vehicles ; this point is sometimes called the Mile of Death.

The Black Death midway through the 14th century massively reduced Hertfordshire's population.

* In the 1991 film Soapdish, the leading character played by Kevin Kline is a down-and-out actor reduced to drunkenly performing the role of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman at the fictitious " Opa-Locka Dinner Theater.

The collection from which it came, Death to Art ( 1913 ), contained fifteen very short poems that gradually reduced in size from one line, to one word, one letter, and ultimately to Poem of the End.

# It is reduced resolution version of a screenshot from The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

A series of famines and plagues, such as the medieval Great Famine and the Black Death, reduced the population around half before the calamities in the late Middle Ages.

Other issues of disappointment were the reduced number of towns and creatures, alignment revisions ( e. g. merging the Necropolis with Inferno ), the addition of " Death " aligned Venom Spawn, the treatment of Ballistas as a separate unit, and the increased limitations of spellcasting ( while previously available for any town, most town spells were made exclusive to each town ).

After 1875, a long depression in English agriculture and industry set in, which reduced estate incomes and put severe pressure on their owners, a situation made worse by the accumulation of debts due to family settlements or extravagant expenditure, often sustained over generations, and the introduction of Death Duties in 1894.

Unable to fire a fully charged shot from the Death Star's superlaser, Grand Moff Tarkin orders the technicians to fire at reduced power, nearly levelling the Massassi Temple on the moon ’ s surface.

In 1348, the Black Death reduced the city's population to such an extent that Gloucester College ( from which Gloucester Green derives its name ) was forced to close.