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Causes of deaths registered as having occurred in Navy during 1903 :-

Acute Bronchitis,

Myelitis,

Apoplexy,

Pneumonia,

Intestinal Obstruction,

Fracture of Skull,

1

1

Injury to Chest,

Aneurysm,

Pernicous Anæmia,..................

1

1

1

1

9

UNCERTIFIED DEATHS.

During the year, 569 deaths reported to the Registrar General's Department were referred for further particulars to this department, the reports of the deaths not being accompanied by a medical certificate."

Of these 569 deaths, 278 occurred in Victoria and 291 in Kowloon.

The following table shows the causes of death in these cases assigned to them either after removal to and examination at the Public Mortuary or on inspection of the body with a history of the case given by the relatives:--

Aneurysm,

Aortic Disease,

Asthina,

Beri-beri,.

Bronchitis,

Cancer.

Heart Disease,..

Childbirth,

+

1

1

3

29

132

2

12

9

Convulsions,

7

Colic,

1

Debility,

19

Diarrhoea,

7

Diphtheria,

1

Fatty Degeneration of Heart,...

1

Gangrene,

1

General Tuberculosis,

Hæmorrhage,

Hemiplegia,

Marasmus,

Malaria,

Nephritis,

Old age, Peritonitis, Phthisis,

4

4

1

Malignant Endocarditis,.

1

2

21

62

3

87

Pericarditis....

1

Placenta prævia,

1

Plague,

119

Pleurisy,

1

Pneumonia,

15

Post-partum Hæmorrhage,

Premature Birth,

2

Septicemia,.

Syncope,

Syphilis,

Tubercular Enteritis.

Tubercular Peritonitis, Unknown (decomposed),

•

1

14

569