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68
8. Diseases of Urinary system 83
9. Diseases of Reproductive system
a. Diseases of Organs of Generation 15
b. Diseases of Parturition 3
10. Diseases of Locomotive system 2
11. Diseases of Integumentary system 4
1,321
VII. VIOLENCE
1. Accident or Negligence 40
2. Battle
3. Homicide 1
4. Suicide 10
5. Execution
— 51
VIII. ILL-DEFINED AND NOT SPECIFIED CAUSES 136
Total 2,615
ASSIGNED CAUSES OF DEATH.
Having already, (at page 20), treated of the deaths from
the "principal diseases of the zymotic class," I now proceed
to give some particulars of the mortality from the remaining
diseases, but before doing so it is right to mention that the
classification of the causes of death in the "Weekly Returns"
of the Registrar-General was considerably modified at the
beginning of 1882. "The list of causes, in its new form," as
the Registrar-General stated in his Annual Summary for that
year, "is an abbreviation of the much more detailed list which
has been drawn up for use in the 'Annual Reports of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in England,' and which has been
compiled in general accordance with the classification of the
Royal College of Physicians. The London deaths, though
they are only classified by the abridged list in the Weekly
Return, and in the Annual Summary, will be afterwards
classified by the full list in the 'Annual Report of Births,
Deaths, and Marriages in England.'" Table 3 in my reports,
prior to 1882, was framed upon the lines of the less
abridged list of the causes of death contained in the Annual
Summary, and it was the basis, to a large extent, of all the
other tables. As it was not possible to accept the more
abridged list contained in the Annual Summary for 1882,
but, at the same time, desirable to frame table 3 in close