Table: TABLE IV.CausesofDeathduringthe Year 1945.
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TABLE IV.
Causes of Death during the Year 1945.
No. Cause of Death. Males Females Total l Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers - - 2 Gerebro spinal fever 2 3 3 Scarlet Fever - - 4 Whooping Cough - - - 5 Diphtheria - 1 1 6 Tuberculosis Reepir. System 29 13 42 7 Other forms of Tuberculosis 3 - 3 8 Syphilitic diseases 2 - 2 9 Influenza - 1 1 10 Measles - - - 11 Ac. Polio-myel. and polioencephalitis - 12 Ac. inf. encephalitis - - - 13 Canoer of hue. cav. and oesoph. (M) uterus (F) 7 5 12 14 Canoer of stomach and duodenum 9 9 18 15 Cancer of breast - 15 15 16 Cancer of all other sites 32 39 71 17 Diabetes 1 2 3 18 Intra-cranial vascular lesions '-'2 45 67 19 Heart disease ' 87 55 1+2 20 Other dis. of circ. system 5 7 12 21 Bronchitis 26 10 36 22 Pneumonia 9 13 22 23 Other respiratory diseases 7 5 12 24 TTlcer of stom. or duodenum 4 3 7 25 Diarrhoea under 2 years 1 1 2 26 Appendicitis - - - 27 Other digestive diseases 7 6 13 28 Nephritis 9 7 16 29 Puer. and post abort, sepsis - - - 30 Other maternal causes - 1 1 31 Premature birth 8 3 11 32 Coil. mal. birth inj. inf. dis. 9 8 17 33 Suicide 4 1 5 34 Road traffic accident 4 3 7 35 Other violent causes 4 8 12 36 All other causes 32 17 49 Total all causes 322 280 602
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MATERNAL MORTALITY.
One death was recorded as being dne to maternal causes
during the year, giving a maternal mortality rate of 0.97 per
thousand total births as against 0.84 in the previous year. The
corresponding rate for England and Wales was 1.66.
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