Influenza 938.5 Measles 830.7 Pneumonia, lobar 143.6 German measles 12.5 Pulmonary tuberculosis 173.1 Tuberculosis, other forms 20.7 Diphtheria 194.2 Gonorrhea 186.7 Whooping cough 258.3 Scarlet fever 265.2 Chicken pox 138.4 Mumps 154.1 Syphilis 77.2 Ophthalmia 42.3 Typhoid fever 24.2 Dysentery 1.0 Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis 4.7 Malaria 1.6 Pellagra .4 Smallpox .7 Trachoma 2.2 The case rates for influenza and pneumonia cannot be looked upon as representative, owing to the epidemic of 1919 and 1920. During 1917 the death rate from influenza was 12.9 per 100,000 and from pneumonia 163.8. The death rate from heart diseases (organic diseases of the heart and endocarditis) in Massachusetts in 1920 was 178 per 100,000 of the population, from apoplexy 108.4, cancer and other malignant diseases 116.7, Bright's disease and nephritis 92.4, diarrhea and enteritis 52.9, violence 76.3, automobile accidents and injuries 11.9 and suicides 10.1.