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It will be seen that heart disease, as in the last five years, heads the list;
498 deaths were certified as due to this cause, compared with 512 in 1933.
Cancer came next, as in 1933, with 270 deaths, an increase of 30 on the
previous year.
Pneumonia took third place with 139 deaths, an increase of 28 compared
with 1933.
Tuberculosis: there was a decrease in the mortality from Tuberculosis,
the number of deaths falling from 140 to 132.
There was also a slight decrease in mortality from Bronchitis, the deaths
numbering 69 as against 75 in the previous year.
Chronic and acute Nephritis and Cerebral Hemorrhage also decreased
from 59 and 54 to 48 in both cases.
Influenza, which in 1933 caused 77 deaths, only accounted for 17 during
1934.
The following figures show the number of deaths from the common
diseases classified according to the organs of the body affected.
Diseases of the organs of circulation caused 600 deaths in 1934 or 32.8
per cent, of the total, including 498 from heart disease, 6 from aneurysm and
96 from other circulatory diseases. Including hemorrhage into the brain, the
deaths from circulatory diseases were 648.
There were 336 deaths in 1934 from diseases of the respiratory organs,
equal to 18.3 per cent, of the total deaths. This number was made up as
follows: Pneumonia 139; Tuberculosis of the lungs 112; Bronchitis 69; and
other respiratory diseases 16. A large number of deaths from Bronchitis
(62.3 per cent.) were in persons over 65 years of age. In the case of deaths
from Pneumonia 35.9 per cent, were in persons over 65 years of age, and 17.2
per cent, were in children under one year of age.