ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS 



Mortality. — While malaria is not a highly fatal 

 disease (the mortality being comparatively low, as will 

 be seen), it is one of the most expensive diseases 

 extant, owing to its continued weakening effect on 

 the victim and its harmful influence on labor and real 

 estate valuation. 



The following table and quotations after Howard 

 (1907) give a fair estimate of the mortality in the 

 United States due to malaria. The table is based on 

 the registration area. 



TABLE I 



Deaths due to Malaria in the Registration States, 1900 

 to 1907. (After Howard.) 



Year 



1900 

 1901 

 1902 

 1903 

 1904 



I905 



1906 

 1907 



No. of Deaths from 



Malaria per 100,000 



Population 



Total No. of Deaths 

 from Malaria 



2434 



1791 



1738 

 I4IO 



1391 

 1321 



I415 



1 166 



Total deaths 12,666 



