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The next table shows, for either sex, the number of deaths from each cause reeisteredldurinsr'Tthe year 1905 :—

Causes of Death.

1 Causes of Death. Order at,d Diseases. Causes of Death. a "3 ■3 •i I o Causes of Death. Orders and Diseases. m 3 S ■a I Obder 1.— Miasmatic. Small-pox ... Chicken-pox Measles Epidemic rose - rash, rubeola Scarlet fever, scarlatina Typhus Bubonic plague Dengue Relapsing fever Influenza ... Whooping-cough Mumps Diphtheria ... Cerebro-spinal fever ... Simple and ill-defined fever Enteric fever, typhoid Other miasmatic diseases 4 4 "io - 2 4 ... 1 6 ... 1 30 1 "8 I ■" 10 ... 70 3 M Thrush Other diseases from vegetable parasites Hydatid disease Worms Other diseases from animal parasites Total Class II ... Starvation, exposure... Want of breast-milk... Scurvy Intemperance— Chronic alcoholism... Delirium tremens ... Other dietetic diseases 12 12 1 1 5 4 1 1 1 4 16 2 2 6 16 12 1 "23 35 1 o 3 is O w M 22 7 6 4 26 7 9 '"s 27 18 45 Total Class III 42 10 52 ... Rheumatic fever Rheumatism Gout Rickets Cancer Tabes mesenterica, tubercular peritonitis Tubercular meningitis, acute hydrocephalus Phthisis Other forms of tuberculosis, scrofula Purpura, haemorrhagic diathesis Anaemia, chlorosis, leucocythiEinia Diabetes mellitus Other constitutional diseases 82 21 4 1 1 313 17 11 4 32 8 1 4 566 34 to w to < Go Q Total Order 1 .. 90 172 3 253 17 Oedbb 2.— Diarrhceal. Simple cholera Diarrhoea ... Dysentery ... 8 58 5 57 13 115 a: H DO -f, w P b O i P Total Order 2 ... o O B I—I S > i—i 39 254 48 36 242 25 75 66 62 128 496 73 g W S Order 3.— Malarial. Remittent fever Ague Beriberi 8 3 11 22 28 50 Total Order 3 ... 35 44 4 79 8 I o w Oeder 4.— Zoogenous. Hydrophobia Glanders Splenic fever Cow-pox and other effects of vaccination 4 Total Class IV 767 670 1,437 Total Order 4 ... <! EH H . § tn §9 a h Premature birth Atelectasis ... Cyanosis Spina bifida Imperforate anus Cleft palate, hare-lip... Other congenital defects Old age 196 8 3 1 1 1 4 325 164 4 5 6 360 12 8 7 1 2 11 578 Order 5.— Venereal. Syphilis Gonorrhoea, stricture of urethra, ulcer of groin 19 2 7 26 2 1 7 253 Total Class V ... 539 440 979 Total Order 5 ... 21 7 28 Oeder 6.— Septic. Phagedena... Erysipelas ... Pysemia, septicaemia... Puerperal fever, pyaemia, septicaemia 5 25 3 9 21 8 34 21 ■ < ft Q > Order 1.— Diseases of Nervous System. Inflammation of the brain or its membranes Cerebro-spinal meningitis Apoplexy ... Softening of brain Hemiplegia, brain paralysis 67 1 1 52 119 2 Total Order 6 ... 30 33 63 168 16 20! 131 8 19 299 24 39 Total Class I ... 207 184 391