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THE PRINCIPAL CAUSES OF DEATH (Europeans only) The following table gives the main causes of death during the year, the actual number of deaths therefrom, and the death-rates per 10,000 of mean population for each of the last five years :

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1945. Cause. 1944: 1943: 1942: 1941 : Number. Rate. Rate. Rate. Rate. Rate. Heart-disease (all forms) 5,638 35-37 33-50 33-68 36-41 31-55 Cancer 2,212 13-88 14-02 13-85 13-13 13-18 Violence 785 4-93 5-38 6-06 5-76 5-64 Pneumonia 255 1-60 1-32 1-41 1-52 1-48 Pneumonia (secondary to influenza, whooping32 0-20 0-31 0-17 0-81 0-38 cough, and measles) Bronchitis 179 1-12 1-14 1-40 1-36 0-94 Broncho-pneumonia 249 1-56 1-82 1-67 2-11 1-98 Tuberculosis (all forms) Kidney, or Bright's disease 603 3-78 3-81 3-72 3-94 3-88 416 2-61 2-80 2-83 3-19 3-66 Apoplexy or cerebral haemorrhage ,1,640 10-29 9-28 9-79 9-90 8-95* Diseases of the arteries 239 1-50 1-21 1-21 1-22 1-14* Senility 459 2-88 2-94 3-17 3-02 3-13 Diabetes 319 2-00 2-10 2-16 2-28 2-22 Hernia and intestinal obstruction 125 0-78 0-74 0-65 0-74 0-73 Diseases and accidents of childbirth (puerperal 83 0-52 0-58 0-44 0-55 0-76 mortality) Appendicitis 59 0-37 0-50 0-47 0-44 0-55 Diarrhoea and enteritis 125 0-78 0-64 0-58 0-50 0-54 Epilepsy 45 0-28 0-30 0-46 0-53 0-43 Common infectious diseases — Influenza (all forms, including pneumonia) 53 0-31 0-40 0-42 1-61 0-49 Diphtheria 42 0-26 0-19 0-21 0-16 0-11 Whooping-cough 8 0-05 0-29 0-11 0-03 0-44 Scarlet fever 13 0-08 0-17 0-01 0-01 0-01 Typhoid and paratyphoid 3 0-02 0-02 0-02 0-05 0-05 Measles .. .. .. .. 10 0-06 0-05 0-20 0-03 * Owing to an alteration in the international agreement a s to the allocation of deaths to various causes, the figures for these two conditions are not separately comparable with the figures for years before 1940.