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Registrar General's Short Table of Causes of Death.
Corrected for inward and outward transfers.
The following figures are supplied by the Registrar
General.
Causes. M. F.
1 Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers
2 Measles
3 Scarlet Fever 1
4 Whooping Cough 1
5 Diphtheria
6 Influenza 3 7
7 Encephalitis
8 Cerebro-spinal fever
9 Tuberculosis of respiratory system 8 6
10 Other tuberculous diseases 3 3
11 Syphilis 1
12 General paralysis of the insane, tabes
dorsalis
13 Cancer, malignant disease 9 16
14 Diabetes 1 1
15 Cerebral Haemorrhage, &c. 3 3
16 Heart disease 19 21
17 Aneurysm 1
18 Other circulatory diseases 4 1
19 Bronchitis 2 3
20 Pneumonia (all forms) 9 10
21 Other respiratory diseases 2 3
22 Peptic ulcer 1
23 Diarrhoea, &c. (under 2 years 3
24 Appendicitis 1
25 Cirrhosis of liver 2
26 Other diseases of liver, &c. 2 2
27 Other digestive diseases 4 2
28 Acute and chronic nephritis 7 2
29 Puerperal sepsis 1
30 Other puerperal causes 2
31 Congenital debility, premature birth,
malformations, &c. 9 7
32 Senility 6 8
33 Suicide 3
34 Other violence 8 4
35 Other defined diseases 14 8
36 Causes ill-defined or unknown 1
Special Causes (included in No. 35 above):—
Smallpox
Poliomyelitis
Polioencephalitis
Total 126 112