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Maternal

Mortality Rate

Nos. of

Deaths

Rate per

000

Births

|

14

1

31,098

31,783

ΙΟΥ

7

0.22

6%

1.23

42.473

43.821

1.55

0.07

71

201

47.475

48.726

55

1.33

0.14

72

1.47

36. Table 7 shows the maternal mortality for 1946-1948 with rates per thousand live and stillbirtba.

HAS

Total Live

Year

Live

Births

Births

& Still

Births

TABLE 7

Pregnancy & Child-

bearing (Nos. 142-150 of

International List)

Nos. of

Deaths

900'T

Ind Mex

Births

Abortion (Nos. 140-141

of International List)

Nos. of

Deaths

Rate per 1.000

Births

F. Principal Causas of Death.

37. Table 8 shows the principal causes of death during

the years 1946, 1947 and 1948.

15

TABLE &

Number of Deaths

Causes of death (classifled by

1938 Revision of

International List}

1946

1947

1948

- je

Smallpox Cerebrospinal fever

Beri-Beri Diphtheria

1.306

120

2

BS

137

19

1,318

312

140

1972

49

Malaria

+85

253

193

Tuberculosis of respiratory

system

LATS

1.4.20

1.443

Other forms of tuberculosis Syphilitic diseases

343

443

$18

42

93

85

Inluenza

243

35

25

Cancer, malignant disease

277

304

397

Intracranial lesions of vascular

origin

189

204

275

Other disease: of nervous system

and sense organs

132

180

45

Diseases of the beart

379

514

572

Other diseases of circulatory

system

44

29

$7

Bronchitis

Pneumonia (all forms)

system

130

$29

419

4.129

3.464

3.157

Other diseases of respiratory

137

139

125

Enteritis and diarrhoes

1,235

1.179

1.757

Other diseases of digestive system Non-venereal diseases of genito-

337

361

318

urinary system

220

341

350

Premature births, congenital mal-

forrnations and diseases of

early infancy

982

1.289

1.214

Other defined diseaser

788

445

517

Old age, senility

142

101

113

Violence (accidents, suicide.

homicide, etc.)

83)

686

781

Ill-defined causes

189

522

203

TOTAL

18.633

13.231

13.434

38. Annexure E shows the number of cases of notifiable diseases with the deaths at all ages for the years 1946, 1947 and 1948, also the age groups of diseases notified for 1948 and the notifications, deaths and deaths per 100 notifications for cerebro spinal meningitis, cholera, diphtheria, enteric fever and smallpox since 1928.