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Cancer and Malignant
Disease of various parts 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 Totals
of the body.
Face, Tongue, Jaw — 7 7 7 7 9 8 57
Throat, Neck, Gullet — 8 7 8 8 12 13 7 63
Stomach 9 12 16 8 7 8 9 13 82
Intestines 10 17 1114 10 20 12 29 123
Liver 10 6 13 11 3 13 10 11 77
Pancreas — — 3 3 1 — 2 312
Breast 6 9 12 4 11 8 4 3 57
Uterus 16 12 9 14 11 9 13 10 94
Various 21 1 9 10 7 7 14 3 72
Totals 72 72 92 79 65 84 86 87 637
RESPIRATORY DISEASES.
Table IV. brings out the fact that disease of the respiratory organs
caused 417 deaths. Of these, 203 were due to Bronchitis, 174 to
Pneumonia, 10 to Pleurisy, and 30 to other respiratory conditions.
If the 221 deaths due to Phthisis be added to the 417, the figure
for respiratory diseases becomes 638.
Most of these conditions are due largely to exposure, though it
cannot be doubted that some of them, e.g., Pneumonia, are due
to infection. Protection is largely a matter for the individual,
and in the case of children, the mother is responsible for protecting
them from exposure, to infection as well as to cold and wet.
Of the 174 Pneumonia deaths, 50 were of children under one, and
49 of children of one and under five years of age. In many of these
cases the pneumonia was a sequel of measles, a disease in which
there is a distinct liability to affection of the lungs and other
respiratory organs.