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ACCORDING to an editorial in the January issue of the Statistical Bulletin of New York, during the eight-year period for which data are available, namely, 1933–41, the deaths in the United States from exposure to excessive cold—freezing, frostbite, etc.— were on the average 363 annually or about 3 per 1,000,000 persons. The highest figure (579) was reached in 1936 when there was exceptionally cold weather over a large part of the country, while the minimum figure of 190 in the period was in 1939. In the United States as a whole, males were the victims of exposure to excessive cold about four times as frequently as females, and two thirds of the male deaths occurred in men of fifty and more, many of whom were probably suffering from arterial diseases and therefore more susceptible to the effects of exposure. The highest rates in the country were found in the mountain States of Nevada, Montana, and Wyoming, while the district of Columbia was lowest and California came next.
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Deaths from Exposure to Cold. Nature 151, 695 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151695d0
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