Dead of Spokane 1888

This is the map with the death locations listed.  It populated reasonably well, though clearly we have a cluster around where Google lists as the central point in "Spokane".  One death location, listed as "Shanty Town" populated in Central Nevada.  Go figure. Perhaps more interesting was the map populating the birth locations of these departed Spokanites. It says something about the makeup of Spokane circa the 1880s that so few of these dead were actually born there.  If you zoom in on Alabama, you'll find the only Spokanite on our list from the deep south, a 55 year old Black woman named Elizabeth Brooks.  Her age and her birthplace strongly indicates that she grew up as a slave.  An interesting find.


We can also make pie charts and other graphs to aggregate the data.  Here we see that Typhoid was the disease to avoid in 19th century Spokane.



Broken up by occupation you see a large majority of our subjects were children and unknowns, but you still get a small sampling of the kinds of blue-collar work Spokanites did in the 1880s, with "laborer" dominant.







It seems that people took a break from dying between April and late August.  Curious.  Perhaps it says something about the climate's effect on health?  Perhaps its just statistical weirdness.