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22
Suicide 14
Food poisoning —
Poisoning by venomous animals —
Other acute accidental poisonings (not by gas) 1
Conflagration 1
Accidental burns (conflagrations excepted) 8
Accidental mechanical suffocation 4
Accidental absorption of irrespirable or poisonous gas —
Accidental drowning 10
Accidental injury:
By firearms —
By cutting or piercing instruments I
By fall 29
In mining and quarrying —
By machinery 2
By other forms of crushing:
Road vehicles 23
Railways 1
Other crushing accidents 1
Injury by animals (poisoning by venomous animals
excepted) —
Wounds of war —
Execution of civilians by belligerent armies —
Hunger or thirst —
Excessive cold —
Excessive heat —
Lightning —
Electricity (lightning excepted) —
Homicide:
By firearms —
By cutting or piercing instruments —
By other means —
Infanticide —
Fracture (cause not specified) —
Other and unstated forms of accidental violence —
Violent deaths of unstated nature (i.e., accidental,
suicidal, etc.) and cause —
95
For death rates from violence, and the percentage of inquest cases to total
deaths, see Table IV.