Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia.

  • Southern Rhodesia. Department of Health.
Date:
[1920]
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Credit: Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table 26. CLASSIFICATION OF DEATHS—NATIVES, 1920. Deaths classified according to the international classification of causes of sickness and death. Classifi¬ cation No. Disease. No. of Deaths, 1920. 1 Typhoid fever ... 3 4 Malaria 8 4a Blackwater fever ... ... ... ••• i 2 10 Influenza 1 10a Spanish influenza 12 14 Dysentery 6 20 Purulent infection and septicaemia 28 Tuberculosis of the lungs ... 74 30 Tuberculous meningitis i 31 Abdominal tuberculosis i 34 Tuberculosis of other organs 2 37 Syphilis 3 39 Cancer and other malignant tumours of the buccal cavity ... i 40 Cancer and other malignant tumours of the stomach and liver 2 # 45 Cancer and other malignant tumours of other organs, or of organs not specified ... 2 47 Acute articular rheumatism i- 49 Scurvy ii 50 Diabetes ... ... ... ... ... • •• 2 53 Leuchremia 1 55 Other general diseases 3 60 Encephalitis 3 61 Simple meningitis 24 file Meningitis, other forms 1 64 Cerebral haemorrhage, apoplexy 4 66 Paralysis without specified cause 3. 68 Other forms of mental alienation 11 69 Epilepsy 1 71 Convulsions of infants 74 Other diseases of the nervous system 1 76 Diseases of the ears J 77 Pericarditis i 79 Organic diseases of the heart 4 89 Acute bronchitis 3 91 Broncho-pneumonia 2 92 Pneumonia 83- 93 Pleurisy 3 103 Other diseases of the stomach (cancer excepted) ... 1 104 Diarrhoea and enteritis (under 2 jrears) 2. 105 Diarrhoea and enteritis (2 years and over) li 108 Appendicitis and typhilitis li 109 Hernia, intestinal obstruction 3- 110 Other diseases of the intestines 1 113 Cirrhosis of the liver ... ... ... ••• ... 4. 114 Biliary calculi ... 1 115 Other diseases of (he liver... 2: 116 Diseases of the spleen 2 117 Simple peritonitis (non-puerperal) 3 119 Acute nephritis 9-- 126 Diseases of the prostate 1 134 Accidents of pregnancy 1 142 Gangrene 4 144 Acute abscess ... 3 151 Congenital debility, icterus and sclerema 5 152 Other causes peculiar to early infancy i 157 Suicide by hanging or strangulation ... i 165 Other acute poisonings i 167 Burns (conflagration excepted) 3 170 Traumatism by firearms ... i 175 Traumatism by other crushing (vehicles, railways, landslides, etc.) i 185 Fractures (cause not specified) 9 186 Other external violence 2 186a Execution 5 187 Ill-defined organic disease... 2 188 Sudden death ... i 189 Cause of death not specified, or ill-defined 13