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Comparisons with 1930.
(i) No deaths from measles as compared with 22 in 1930.
(ii) Whooping Cough showed a slightly increased fatality in the
first five years of life, (iii) Continued decrease in the number of
deaths from diphtheria, (iv) Increase in deaths from influenza,
chiefly affecting those over 65. (v) Deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis,
which are largely concentrated between 15 and 45 years
years of age, remained the same, (vi) Cancer deaths remained
practically the same with a preponderance of deaths over 45 years
of age, as in 1930. (vii) Deaths attributed to senile decay remained
much the same, (viii) A further increase in deaths from organic
tieart disease and arterio-sclerosis. (ix) An increase in deaths
from acute and chronic bronchitis, probably due to the increased
prevalence of influenza during the year, (x) A decrease in
infantile deaths from diarrhœa. (xi) An increase in deaths from
nephritis, (xii) An increase in the number of suicides. Deaths
from violence now loom conspicuously in the causes of death and
assume importance from Public Health aspects. The majority of
these are caused through the agency of mechanically propelled
vehicles.
Comments on Table X.
(i) Cancer remains the chief cause of death between the ages, of
55 and 65 years closely followed by heart disease, (ii) Heart
disease is the main cause of death over 65, closely followed by
cancer. (iii) Cancer remained, as in 1929 and 1930, the chief
cause of death of persons dying in institutions, (iv) The main
causes of death in persons over 65—excluding senile decay—were:
Heart Disease (336), Cancer (179), Chronic Bronchitis (122),
Cerebral Haemorrhage (107), Pneumonia (87), Influenza (50).
(v) Pneumonia still showed its maxima at both extremes of life
as in 1930 and 1929. (vi) The dangers run by an infant during
the first year of life. This is the most dangerous time until the
15—55 age group is reached, (vii) Violent death overtakes the
older groups of the population more often than the younger groups,
though both in 1930 and the year under review the age-group 15-25
an unduly large number of fatalities from this cause. Suicide
commonest between 45 and 65.
There are a few points of difference between Table VII. and
the short list of causes of death supplied by the Registrar-General.
The causes of the differences are due to the different methods of
classification when more than one cause of death is given on the