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13.
why Cancer was relegated to fourth place was the
increase in the number of deaths from Heart Diseases,
Bronchitis and Pneumonia.
There is little doubt that the unfavourable climatic
conditions during the early part of 1929 contributed to
the increase in the number of diseases of the chest.
There was also an increase in the number of influenza
cases which are frequently complicated with bronchitis
and pneumonia.
Heart disease accounted for 291 deaths in 1929
compared with 202 in 1928.
There were 278 deaths from bronchitis in 1929 and
only 174 from this cause in 1928.
The deaths from pneumonia numbered 249 in 1929
whereas in 1928 the number was 158.
Tuberculosis took fifth place as a cause of death,
both in 1928 and 1929.
The number of deaths from this cause rose from 147
in 1928 to 173 in 1929.
The following figures show the number of deaths
from the common diseases classified according to the
organs of the body affected.
There were 701 deaths in 1929 from diseases of the
respiratory organs, equal to 33.06 per cent. of the total
deaths. This number was made up as follows:—Bronchitis
278; Pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs) 249;
Tuberculosis of the lungs 149; other respiratory diseases
25. A large number of the deaths from bronchitis (69
per cent.) were in persons over 65. In the case of deaths
from pneumonia 30 per cent. were in persons over 65
years of age and 27 per cent. were in children under
2 years.