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CAUSES OF DEATH (THE WOHLE COLONY).

The deaths registered in the colony during 1905, arranged in the several classes according to their assigned causes, give the rates as follows: —

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Causes of Death. Number of Di ;aths. Proportion to Total Deaths. § I O a> — O tU O 1—I § I o g-r ° 5* OH PM o Males. Females. Total. Males. Females. Total. Dlass I. —Specific febrile or zymotic disPer Cent. 1-92 1-41 Per Cent. 2-43 1-84 Per Cent. 2-13 1-59 Order 1. Miasmatic diseases „ 2. Diarrhoeal diseases „ 3. Malarial diseases „ 4. Zoogenous diseases .„ 5. Venereal diseases „ 6. Septic diseases ... 90 66 82 62 172 128 1-98 1-47 3-24 2-28 21 30 7 33 28 63 6-45 0-64 0-21 0-98 0 : 35 0-78 0-32! 0-72 0-26 0-94 • . Total Class I ... 4-49 6-72 207 184 391 4-42 5-46 4-85 Ulass II.—Parasitic diseases 12 16 0-26 0-12 020 0-181 0-27 Ulass III. —Dietetic diseases 42 10 52 0-90 0-30 0-64 0-60i 0-62 Dlass IV.—Constitutional diseases ... 767 670 1,437 16-36 19-87 17-83 16-52: 18-60 Dlass V.—Developmental diseases ... 539 440 979 11-47 13-05 1214 11-25. 9-69 Ulass VI. —Local diseases, — Order 1. Diseases of nervous system „ 2. Diseases of organs of special 521 8 392 5 913 13 11-11 0-17 11-62 0-15 11-33 0-16 10-49, 0-15! 10-22 012 sense „ 3. Diseases of circulatory system „ 4. Diseases of respiratory system „ 5. Diseases of digestive system „ 6. Diseases of lymphatic system „ 7. Diseases of urinary system „ 8. Diseases of reproductive system,—■ (a.) Of organs of generation (b.) Of parturition „ 9. Diseases of locomotive system „ 10. Diseases of integumentary system 643 572 410 10 265 371 408 371 32j 110 1,014 980 781 I 42 375 13-71 12-20 8-75 0-22 5-65 1100 12-10 11-00 0-95 3-26 12-58 1216 9-69 0-52 4-65 11-66 11-26 8-98J 0-48 4-31 11-28 10-85 9-54 036 3-59 39 40 002 116 0-50 0-46 0-34 1 9 79 5 79 14 6 : 19 2-34 015 0-98 0-17 0-91 016 |l-01 0-22 5 13 0-17 0-15 016 015 0-15 Total Class VI 2,447 1,817 4,264 52-19 53 -88 52-90 49-01 47-68 31ass VII. —Violence, — Order 1. Accident or negligence „ 2. Homicide „ 3. Suicide... „ 4. Execution 425 3 69 1 95 2 20 520 5 89 1 9-06 0-07 1-47 002 2-82| 006 0-59 645 006 1-11 001 5-98 0-06 102 001 7-02 006 1-18 Total Class VII. ... 117 7-63 7-07 8-26 498 615 10-62 3-47 Ulass VIII.—Ill-defined and not-speci-fied causes Grand totals 177 130 307 378 3-85 3-81 353 3-86 4,68y 3,372 8,061 100-00 10000 10000 92-65 95-70