1918 Every Year: Racial Inequality in Infectious Mortality, 1906–1942

In the first half of twentieth century, racial inequality in rate death from infectious disease was immense. every year 1906 to 1920, Black Americans cities died diseases at a higher than that urban White during 1918 influenza pandemic. We decompose mortality into three broad causes determine which were most influential. Our results suggest primarily driven by TB and flu--the two major respiratory death. Waterborne causes, contrast, played minor role explaining disparity.