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Table LXXXII.
VICTORIA AND KOWLOON MORTUARIES. RETURN OF CAUSES OF DEATH FOR THE YEAR 1987.
Yearly total.
Causes of death. Male. Female. I.-Infectious and Parasitic Diseases: Typhoid fever 10 5 Smallpox: Variola major 28 43 Measles 2 5 Diphtheria 11 10 Influenza 1 Cholera 194 110 Dysentery: -- (a) Amoebic 6 (b) Bacillary 23 7 (c) Other or unspecified Acute poliomyelitis Cerebro-spinal meningitis (epidemic) 1 1 Tuberculosis of the respiratory system 301 159 Tuberculosis of the central nervous system 4 2 Tuberculosis of intestines and peritoneum 7 10 Tuberculosis of other organs 9 Disseminated tuberculosis 68 74 Leprosy 5 **** Syphilis:- Congenital 4 2 Tertiary 6 5 Malaria Sub-tertian 15 1 Cachexia 31 9 11 2 1 Total carried forward..... 741 453