What about deaths by starvation?
In NYC there were 20 dead by starvation the first year. The last year of the Depression it was 110 dead. (At least according to the second link below). Not too bad for a city the size of NYC.
My wife was getting all hysterical about the number of deaths during the Great Depression. She quoted somebody on twitter that had it at “hundreds of thousands due to the Great Depression”. That didn’t sound right. Yeah - times were REALLY tough, but I never heard from my parents (born 1917) about the mass die offs.
https://www.history.com/news/great-depression-economy-life-expectancy
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3434
Excerpt:
President Herbert Hoover declared, “Nobody is actually starving. The hoboes are better fed than they have ever been.” But in New York City in 1931, there were 20 known cases of starvation; in 1934, there were 110 deaths caused by hunger. There were so many accounts of people starving in New York that the West African nation of Cameroon sent $3.77 in relief.