Table 1.

State-level polio epidemic intensity, 1916

State	Polio cases	Polio deaths	Polio cases per 10,000	State	Polio cases	Polio deaths	Polio cases per 10,000
AL	186	51	0.080	NE	14	.	0.013
AZ	6	.	0.023	NV	.	.	.
AR	14	.	0.008	NH	61	.	0.137
CA	132	26	0.045	NJ	4055	1180	1.376
CO	16	.	0.017	NM	.	.	.
CT	951	235	0.764	NY	13,223	3331	1.287
DE	79	.	0.374	NC	.	.	.
DC	39	6	0.107	ND	23	.	0.031
FL	8	.	0.009	OH	546	.	0.106
GA	.	.	.	OK	35	.	0.016
ID	9	.	0.021	OR	38	4	0.045
IL	826	.	0.102	PA	2181	.	0.256
IN	207	50	0.073	RI	222	.	0.362
IA	259	51	0.117	SC	123	36	0.076
KS	103	26	0.056	SD	38	.	0.054
KY	146	48	0.061	TN	39	.	0.017
LA	77	18	0.042	TX	86	35	0.019
ME	149	.	0.193	UT	5	.	0.012
MD	352	111	0.258	VT	64	12	0.176
MA	1926	424	0.518	VA	330	59	0.151
MI	616	138	0.202	WA	30	7	0.020
MN	909	105	0.399	WV	82	.	0.059
MS	269	31	0.138	WI	475	79	0.190
MO	11	.	0.003	WY	7	3	0.039
MT	94	26	0.205	Total	29,061	6092	0.285

Previous versions of this paper used polio morbidity data from US Surgeon General and US Public Health Service (1917). More complete information on polio morbidity from Lavinder et al. (1918) are presented above and used in the analysis