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the same as that for 1951, the age group in which cancer was responsible
for the higher percentage of deaths of males again being 55 to 64 and of
females being again the group 45 to 54. After these ages, the percentages
of deaths due to cancer fell for each sex and although the actual numbers
of those dying from this cause over 75 years of age increased, the percentage
of deaths from this cause was less, the lowering being because
of the larger number of deaths from other causes in the more elderly.
Although there was no increase in the numbers of males who died
from cancer of the lung (a figure of 69 in 1952 as in 1951) the number of
women who died from this complaint rose from 12 in 1951 to 22 in 1952.
Death from Infectious Diseases.
Infections other than tuberculosis again accounted for very few
deaths in this last year, there being one only each from whooping cough
and poliomyelitis, none from measles and only six from influenza.
Tuberculosis accounted for 38 deaths, disease of the lung accounting for
34. The death rate per thousand population from the various infections
again compared very favourably with those of the country as a whole.