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Table XIV,-(Contd.).

International

Deaths

VI.

DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

List of Causes of Death, 1931

AND SENSE ORGANS

Males

Females Persons

Brought forward

8,024

5,040 13,084

80

Tabes dorsalis

2

2

81

Other diseases of the spinal cord:

Progressive muscular atrophy

1

1

T

Myelitis of unstated origin

1

2

Other diseases included under 81 ....

1

1

82

Cerebral hemorrhage, apoplexy, etc;

(a)

Cerebral hemorrhage

196

116

312

(b)

Cerebral embolism and thrombosis

10

11

21

(c)

Hemiplegia and other paralysis of

unstated origin

24

24

48

838383

General paralysis of the insane

2

1

84

Other forms of insanity

(b)

Other conditions included under 84

85

Epilepsy

1

17

86

Infantile convulsions (under 5 years

of age)

2

1

3

87

Other diseases of the nervous system :-

(b)

Neuritis, neuralgia

15

16

31

(c)

Paralysis agitans

1

(e)

Other diseases included under 87

3

9

888

Diseases of the eye and annexa

1

I

89

Diseases of the ear and of the

mastoid sinus

VII. DISEASES OF THE CIRCULATORY

SYSTEM

90

Pericarditis

12

6

18

91

Acute endocarditis :--

Malignant endocarditis

6

5

11

Other acute endocarditis

3

7

Carried forward

8,320

5,240, 13,580