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ASSIGNED CAUSES OF DEATH.
Having already (at page 17) treated of the deaths from the
" principal diseases of the zymotic class," I now proceed to deal
with the mortality from the remaining diseases: but before doing
so I think it 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