H.— 31.

The next table shows, for either sex, the number of deaths from each cause registered during the year 1904:—

XVIII

Causes of Death. Order ai d Diseases. 00 s 1 a I Causes of Death Orders and Diseases. 00 I ) O I fa Cβ I EH OS 5 "5 % E-i 00 I 5 Order 1.— Miasmatic. Small-pox ... Chicken-pox ... Measels ... ... Epedemic, rose-rash, rubeola Scarlet fever, scarlatina Typhus ... ... Bubonic plague ... i Dengue ... ... Relapsing fever ... Influenza ... ... Whooping-cough ... Mumps Diphtheria ... Cerebro-spinal fever ... Simple and ill-defined fever Enteric fever, typhoid Other miasm atic diseases Thrush ... ... 1 Other diseases from vegetable parasites Hydatid disease ... | J 4 Worms ... ... 2 Other diseases from animal parasites lrush 1 1 1 2 E 55 K 1 < T. \ X < . ! a iher diseases frc n ! 5 ■"5! io vegetaoie parasites vdatid disease orms s J 1I 4 2 4 1| i 1 :| 18 8 6 7 13 iher diseases frc animal parasites ""I M t .1 . 1 Total Class II.... 17 Total Class II. J 1 L7 6 23 58 15 ■■'9 ... 55 20 -18 ... 118 35 "27 o S < I—I M Starvation, exposure... 5 Want of breast-milk ... 3 Scurvy ... ... ... Intemperance— Chronic alcoholism... 18 Delirium tremens... ! 5 Other dietetic diseases ! 2 arvation, exposure ant of breast-milk urvy temperance — Chronic alcoholism Delirium tremens iher dietetic diseas 1 1. i. s< iei .. 1 1 JS L! 1 I 5 3 L8 5 2 1 5 6 a 0 1 f> 6 8 i 24 : 7 1 7 * ' * 55 1 18 73 1 I Total Class III. 33 19 52 H < to Q o C N Cs3 Total Order 1 .. Order 2.— Diarrheal, Simple cholera Diarrhoea ... Dysentery ... Total Order 2 ... 150 12 108 2 122 123 8 60 3 71 273 20 168 5 193 a -T. a 1 1 'A O H D En m 'A cS I—I Bheumatic fever ... 16 Rheumatism ... 3 Gout ... . . 3 Bickets . ... 1 Cancer ... ... 323 Tabes mesenterica, tu- 20 bercular peritonitis Tubercular meningitis, 42 acute hydrocephalus Phthisis ... * ... 328 Other forms of tubercu- 44 losis, scrofula Pupura, hemorrhagic 6 diathesis Anasinia, chlorosis, leu- 18 cocythssemia Diabetes mellitus ... 40 Other constitutional 4 diseases 18 4 1 248J 16 46 270 34 4 571 35 88 598 78 34 7 « o S FQ H pin Order 3.— Malarial. Remittent fever Ague Beriberi 3 26 44 O E 1—■ o H o< w. Total Order 3 ... 50 6 90 10 Order 4.— Zoogenous. Hydrophobia Glanders Splenic fever ... Cow-pox and other effects of vaccination Total Class IV. 848 724 1,572 I ... ... Total Order 4 ... 1 I Ph H j If > Premature birth ... 171 Atelectasis ... ... 10! Cyanosis ... ... 2 Spina bifida ... 4 Imperforate anus Cleft palate, hare-lip... 2 Other congenital defects 12 Old age ... ... 273 120 10 3 4 291 20 5 8 Order 5.— Venerea 1 -. Syphilis ... ... Gonorrhoea, stricture of urethra, ulcer of groin LL 2 : 9 •20 ■A 2 9 197 4 21 470 t Total Order 0 ... Total Class V.... 474 345; 819 13 9 22 •j . r ID SI < -i ! ! Ordek 6.— Septic. Phagedsena... Erysipelas ... Pyjemia, septicaemia... Puerperal fever, pyaemia, septicaemia "l4 18 i ■ "4 23 121 ... 18, 41 ■21 i o i v Okdeb 1.— Diseases of Nervous System. Inflammation of the j 60; brain or its membranes Cerebro-spinal menin- 4 gitis Apoplexy ... ... ! 155 Softening of brain ... 13i Hemiplegia, brain 21| paralysis 60 42 102 4 J 155 13 1 21 137 12 13 292 25 34 Total Order 6 ... 32 48 80 Total Class I. ... I I 317 251 568,