AnnualReport-1939 — Page 529

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List of Causes! of Death, 1931

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Table XIV,-contd.

Deaths

Diseases.

Males

Females Persons

Brought forward

5,779

4,973 10,752

Stillbirth (viable)

70

48

118

Stillbirth (non-viable)

99

81

180

XVII. CONDITIONS ASSOCIATED WITH VIOLENCE.

163

Suicide, or attempted suicide, by poisoning (including corrosive poisoning)

3

11

14

165

Suicide, or attempted suicide, by hanging or strangulation

26

18

44

166

Suicide, or attempted suicide, by drowning

16

17

33

167

Suicide, or attempted suicide, by firearms

4

-

4

169

Suicide, or attempted suicide, by jumping from a height

10

1

11

171

Suicide, or attempted suicide, by other means

1

-

1

173

Assault or homicide, by firearms

3

2

5

174

Assault or homicide, by cutting or piercing instruments

5

7

12

175

Assault or homicide, by other means

1

3

4

177

Food poisoning

2

4

6

178

Accidental absorption of irrespirable or poisonous gas

4

-

4

180

Injuries due to conflagration

5

-

5

181

Accidental burns:-(conflagration excepted)-

(a) Burns by fire

18

27

45

(b) Scalds

2

-

2

182

Accidental mechanical suffocation

9

1

10

183

Accidental immersion or drowning

55

47

102

184

Accidental injury by firearms

17

3

20

185

Accidental injury by cutting or piercing instruments

4

-

4

186

Accidental injury by fall, crushing, etc. (This title includes all accidental deaths from injuries by falling, on railways, by vehicles, by machinery, by landslides, etc.)

86

47

133

193

Electricity

XVIII. ILL-DEFINED DISEASES.

Decomposed Body

6

-

6

Decomposed Body (Sex?)

6

-

6

Too decomposed to determine cause of death

31

5

8

Total

6,314

5,351

11,696