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RETURN SHEWING THE NUMBER AND CAUSES OF DEATHS REGISTERED

BRITISH

AND

FOREIGN

COMMUNITY.

CHINESE COMMUNITY.

VICTORIA.

HEALTH DISTRICT.

CAUSES.

Civil.

Army.

Brought forward, Group A....... 58

Group B.,...

General Diseases,—Continued.

Opium,

B l'oisons.

Total.......!

Burns,

y Effects of Injuries.

Scalds.

Heat Apoplexy,

Multiple Injuries,

Drowning,

Strangulation,

Bæmorrhage,

57 181

42

55 57 38 GI

57 144

Navy.

No. 1.

No. 2.

No. 3.

No. 4.

No. 5.

No. 6.

No. 7.

No. 8.

* No. 9.

55 46 2 107

No. 10.

Unknown.

Peak.

Harbour.

:

:

Fracture of Skull,

Shock,

Overdistension of Stomach with Course

food,

Hanging,

Cut Throat, (Suicide),

Electrecution,

Shot Wound of Head.......

Rupture of Liver,.

Poisoned Wound of Face,

Crushed Head,..

Compound Fracture of Humerus,

Rupture of Spleen,

Rupture of Stomach,

Rupture of Urethra,

Suffocation,

Injury to Chest,

Fracture of Thigh,

Asphyxia caused by Ligature round Neck,

Wound of Throat,

Centipede Bito, Toxic Poisoning,

Stab Wound of Heart,

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Total....

21

3

6 12

19

& Firrors of Diet

Alcoholism (Chronic},-

10

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10

1

1

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1

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1

43

3

1

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19.

(Acute),

3

Delirium Tremens,

Total,..........

:

Total Group B...

26

3 6 12

21

15

21

5 10

49

C.—Developmental Diseases.

Immaturity at Bath,

Debility,

Old Age,

Marasmus aud Atrophy,

Inanition,

Injury, Contracted Pelvis of Mother,

1 10 30 2.

23

2

4

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11

16

1

12 227

89 15

102

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23

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Total Group C................. 11

29 270 95 25 19 7 7 14 143

Carried forward, (Groups A. to C.),

95 12

6 92 463 141 |101 82

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2

29

52

22

83

75 308 68 58

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