14
Causes of death ascribed to Pregnancy and Childbirth-Contd.
15
TABLE 9-Contd.
or other origin
1
Interna-
Number of Deaths
tional
Causes of Death
1946
1947 1948 1949
No.
Causes of death (Classified by 1938 Revision of International List)
1946 1947 1948
1940
672
673
Delivery complicated by other post- partum haemorrhage...+++******* Delivery complicated by abnormality of
bony pelvis
9
17 13
14
I
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Influenza
Cancer, Malignant disease
671
Delivery complicated by disproportion or
malposition of foetus
675 Delivery complicated by prolonged labour
243
RS
26
20
277
304
397
512
Intracranial lesions of vascular origin
189
204
275
204
Other diseases of nervous system an|||
sense organs
132
180
95
78
Diseases of the heart
370
514
572
620
678
Delivery with other complications of
childbirth
4
15
Other diseases of circulatory system
44
29
67
132
081
Sepsis of childbirth and the puerperium
Bronchitis
839
65M
410
611
686 |Puerperal eclampsia
1
3
Pneumonia (all forms)
1,129
3,464
3,157 4.301
680
Other forms of puerperal toxaemia
1
1
Other diseases of respiratory system Enteritis and diarrhoes .................................¶¶¶¶
197
139
126
105
1,235 1,170
1,757
2,288
Total
32
G8) 65
113
Other diseases of digestive system Non-venereal discases of genito-urinary
system
337
201
$18
454
чи
226
311
360
343
F. Principal Causes of Death.
57. Table 9 shows the pincipal causes of death for the years 1946 to 1949.
Premature births, congenital malforma-
tions and diseases of early infancy.
Other defined diseases
982 1,289 1,214
1,204
786
445
$17
600
Old age, senility
142
101
113
TA
Causes of death (Classified by 1938 Revision of International List)
TABLE 9.
Number of Deatha
1946
1947
1948 1949
Smallpox
1,306
129
2
Cerebrospinal fever
*5
137
19
16
Beri beri
1,318
312
140
100
Diphtheria
62
52
40
76
Malaria
165
253
193
116
Tuberculosis of respiratory system
1,475
1,420
1,443
1,712
Other forms of tuberculosis
343
443
518
899
Syphilitic diseases
42
33
85
1:00
Violence (Accidents, suicide, homicide.
etc.)
631
624
781
620
-defned causes
499
522
903
846
Total
16,653 13.221 13,434 16,287
58. The principal features are the steady decrease in beri beri and malaria as causes of death. This decrease is more real than apparent because at the same time there has been an increase in the number of persons at risk.
59. This increase of the population is shown by the steady increase in deaths from malignant disease, intra-cranial lesions of vascular origin and diseases of the heart.
60. There has been a real increase in the deaths from tuberculosis other than of the respiratory system.