The Effect of the 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago on All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality
Reinhard Kaiser, MD, MPH,
Alain Le Tertre, PhD,
Joel Schwartz, PhD,
Carol A. Gotway, PhD,
W. Randolph Daley, DVM, MPH and
Carol H. Rubin, DVM, MPH
At the time of the study, Reinhard Kaiser, Carol A. Gotway, W. Randolph Daley, and Carol H. Rubin were with the Division for Emergency and Environmental Health Services, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga. Alain Le Tertre is with the Information and Statistics Unit, Department of Environmental Health, National Institute of Public Health Surveillance, Saint Maurice, France. Joel Schwartz is with the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.
FIGURE 2——Daily relative risk of death for all-cause mortality in the general population and among Blacks and Whites for a 50-day period during the Chicago heat wave: 1995.