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DEATHS OF YOUNG CHILDEEN.
Out of the total number of deaths registered in this district, 1596—
more than half—(51.5 per cent.) were those of young children under
the age of five years.
Assuming that the proportion of young children to adults has been
maintained since the census in 1871 (the figures for 1881 are not
published), the numbers in 1882 would be 19,300. Taking this
estimate as the basis of our calculation, we shew a death rate of 82.6
per thousand children living.
SPECIAL CAUSES OF DEATH.
SUMMAEY OF TABLE III.
No. of Deaths.
Orders.
Classes.
I.—Specific Febrile, or Zymotic Diseases
..
600
1. Miasmatic Diseases
459
..
2. Diarrhceal ,,
95
• •
3. Malarial ,,
..
• •
4. Zoogenous ,,
..
• •
5. Venereal ,,
19
• •
6. Septic ,,
27
• •
II.—Parasitic Diseases
• •
4
III.—Dietic Diseases
• •
15
IV.—Constitutional Diseases
• •
533
V.—Developmental Diseases
..
216
VI.—Local Diseases
1392
1. Diseases of Nervous System
356
..
2. Diseases of Organs of Special Sense
• •
..
3. Diseases of Circulatory System
127
..
4. Diseases of Respiratory System
716
..
5. Diseases of Digestive System
120
..
5. Diseases of Lymphatic System
1
..
7. Diseases of Gland-like Organs of Uncertain Use
..
..
8. Diseases of Urinary System
44
..
9. Diseases of Reproductive System
..
..
(a). Diseases of Organs of Generation
3
..
(b). Diseases of Parturition
12
..
10. Diseases of Bones and Joints
11
..
11. Diseases of Integumentary System
2
..
VII.—Violence
..
74
1. Accident or Negligence
61
..
2. Homicide
1
..
3. Suicide
12
..
4. Execution
• •
..
VIII.—Ill-defined and not specified Causes
• •
260
Total
3094