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Christopher J. Rutty, "The Middle-Class Plague: Epidemic Polio and the Canadian State, 1936-37," Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 13 (1996): 277-314

Table 3

Poliomyelitis Death Rates per 100,000 Population

Canada and by Province, 1927-1962


Sources: Canada, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Vital Statistics, 1927-1930 and 1961-62 (Ottawa: 1928-31 and 1962-63); Canada, Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Poliomyelitis Trends, 1956 through 1960 (Ottawa: 1957-1961).
 
 

Year
CAN
BC
AL
SA
MA
ON
QU
NB
NS
PEI
NF
1927
2.0
5.9
10.3
1.0
0.8
0.7
1.5
1.5
2.1
1928
1.9
3.0
5.3
1.3
6.5
1.0
1.3
1.0
0.4
1929
1.5
2.0
1.2
2.3
1.9
1.4
1.6
0.7
0.8
1930
2.1
1.2
4.5
2.3
0.9
2.7
1.6
0.7
1.6
1.1
1931
2.2
1.6
1.1
1.2
0.3
0.8
5.2
0.5
1.9
1.1
1932
1.6
0.1
1.9
0.6
0.3
0.7
3.8
0.5
0.8
0
1933
0.7
0.3
0.9
0.9
0.7
0.4
0.9
0.7
1.1
0
1934
0.8
0.4
0.5
1.1
0.4
1.1
0.6
0.7
0.8
0
1935
0.6
0.1
2.0
0.5
1.4
0.4
0.5
0.2
0.4
2.2
1936
0.9
0.9
0.5
1.0
5.2
0.6
0.5
0
0.2
1.1
1937
1.8
0
1.7
2.4
1.7
3.3
0.7
1.1
1.5
0
1938
0.7
0.5
1.9
0.8
1.5
0.7
0.5
0.9
0.2
0
1939
0.5
0.4
0.6
0.1
0.7
0.6
0.4
0.2
0.5
1.1
1940
0.4
0.2
0.5
0.2
0.7
0.4
0.5
0
0.5
1.1
1941
0.6
0.1
1.0
0.3
2.7
0.3
0.1
4.2
0.7
0
1942
0.5
0
0
0.4
0.1
0.3
0.6
1.7
2.9
4.4
1943
0.2
0.1
0
0.4
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.2
0
1944
0.3
0.2
0.1
0.1
1.0
0.5
0.05
0.9
0.2
0
1945
0.2
0.1
0
0.4
0.3
0.3
0.1
0.2
0.2
0
1946
1.5
0.1
1.0
0.4
0.4
0.8
3.2
1.0
0.3
11.7
1947
0.7
1.1
0.8
1.4
0.9
0.7
0.3
0.2
1.1
1.1
1948
0.6
0.5
3.3
1.4
0.5
0.5
0.2
0
0.6
0
1949
1.3
0.3
1.0
0.7
1.5
1.9
1.1
1.4
2.1
0
0
1950
0.3
0.2
0.9
1.1
0.1
0.2
0.2
0
0
4.2
0
1951
1.2
0.5
0.2
1.4
0.5
2.2
0.2
0.4
3.6
2.0
0
1952
2.2
3.3
8.1
10.7
3.1
1.0
0.3
2.1
0.9
2.0
0
1953
3.3
2.4
10.7
8.4
11.2
2.5
0.8
0.9
0.9
1.0
2.9
1954
1.0
0.5
2.6
0.8
0.6
0.4
1.8
0
0.9
4.0
0
1955
0.2
0.4
0.4
0.6
0.1
0.1
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
0
1956
0.3
0.3
0.3
0.3
0
0.2
0.6
0
0.1
0
0
1957
0.2
0.1
0.5
0.5
0
0.1
0.1
0
0.1
0
0
1958
0.2
0.2
0.1
0
1.3
0.1
0.1
0.2
0
0
0
1959
1.0
0.9
1.0
0.3
0.2
0.4
2.1
1.2
0
1.0
2.7
1960
0.5
0.9
0.9
0.9
0.1
0.05
0.7
0.3
0.1
0
1.1
1961
0.1
0
0.2
0
0
0
0.2
0
0.1
0
0
1962
0.05
0
0
0
0
0
0.1
0
0
0
0

©2000 Christopher J. Rutty, Ph.D.