Accident and Suicide Deaths
170. Table XXXIX shows the number of deaths in 1966 by accident and suicide classified by cause, sex and age group. This reveals that 1,294 people died by accident or suicide as follows, the 1965 figures being given in brackets, for comparison:
Accidents
Traffic accidents
Accidential poisoning
Accidential falls from heights
Other accidents
Suicides
By poisoning
By jumps from heights
By other means
:
299
(356)
23
(35)
166
(141)
455
(376)
943
(908)
83
(49)
132
(112)
136
(140)
351
(301)
1,294 (1,209)
As will be seen, despite there being 57 fewer deaths by traffic accident, the total number of accidental deaths increased by 35 owing mainly to a 21% increase in the miscellaneous group. Unhappily, the number of suicides also showed an increase, namely of 50, or 18.6%, to 351. The numbers of deaths by accident or suicide over the past five years have been as follows:
M
Accident
F
Suicide
Total
M
F
Total
1962
715 437
1,152
224 138
362
1963
603
247
850
216
154
370
1964
662
321
983
218
145
363
1965
607 301
908
190
111
301
1966
606 337
943
191
160
351
It will be noted that while as compared with the previous year the numbers of male deaths in 1966 remained stationary in both cate- gories, the number of female deaths by accident and suicide rose by 36 and 50 respectively.
171. Full statistics of the causes of the deaths registered may be found in Tables 12 and 47 of the Annual Departmental Report of the Director of Medical and Health Services.
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