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Considering the deaths at all ages the chief causes are seen to be as follows:—
Heart disease, 227 (19 per cent.); Cancer, 133 (11 per cent.); Tuberculosis, all forms,
100 (8 per cent.); Pneumonia, all forms, 107 (9 per cent.). The number of deaths
due to accidents in connection with vehicular traffic was 21. In the years 1920 to
1929, inclusive, the corresponding figures were respectively 16, 10, 12, 9, 15, 14, 16,
21,15 and 18. The particulars regarding the deaths from cancer are contained in the
table on page 18.
It will be noted from the Table on page 12 that the chief causes of death of
children between the ages of one and two years were Measles and Pneumonia
—these two causes accounted for 37 out of a total of 52 deaths between these ages-
Altogether 210 or 17 4 per cent. of the total number of deaths of all ages were of
children under the age of 5 years.
The particulars regarding deaths from Tuberculosis are given in the section of
this report devoted to that disease.