demographic yearbook annuaire demographique 1951

DEATHS
22. Deaths by cause, numbers and rates 1947 - 1949
AFRICA
[Excluding stillbirths. Rates per 100,000 persans in midyear papulatian. Far discussion, see page 35.]
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24 25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40 41
42
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44
Cause of death
(Abridged International list, Fifth Revision, 1938.
Detailed list numbers are shown in parentheses)
All causes.•••••.••••.••.•.••••.•••••••••.•••
Typhoid and paratyphaid fevers (1, 2) ••.••••••••••
Plague (3) .•...•..•.••.•.•.•.•••.•••.•.•••••••
Scarlet fever (8) •..••..•.••.•••.••••••••••.•••.
Whoaping cough (9) .•.•••••••••••.••••••.•••.••
Diphtheria (10) ..
Tuberculosis of the respiratory system (13).•....••••
All other forms of tuberculosis (14-22).•........•...
Malaria (28).........•...•....•...••.....•..•.
Syphilis (30)..•....••...•....••...•.....••...•.
Influenza (33)..•••.••••.••.•.••••.••••.••••••••
Smallpox (34) ........•.•..•...••.•..•...••••••
Measles (35) .......•.......•...............•..
Typhus fever and typhus-like diseases [RickettsiosesI
(39)........•.......•.........•............
Other infectious or parasitic diseases (4-7, 11, 12,
23-27, 29, 31, 32, 36-38, 40-44) .
Cancer and other malignant tumors (45-55).•...•...
Nonmalignant tumors or tumors of unspecified nature
(56,57).••..•..•....•..•...••.....•..•.•...
Chronic rheumatism and gout (59, 60).•....•...•.••
Diabetes mellitus (61) ..
Chronic or acute alcoholism (77)•.••••.••••••••••••
Avitaminoses, other general diseases, diseases of the
blood and chronic poisonings (58, 62-76, 78, 79) .•
Meningitis (non meningococcal) and diseases of the
spinal cord (81, 82) .
Intracranial lesions of vascular origin (83). ...•••..•.
Other diseases of the nervous system and sense organs
(80, 84·89)......•....••..••.•..•.....•...••
Diseases of the heart (90-95).•...•.•...••...•.•••
Other diseases of the circulatory system (96-103)....
Bronchitis (106)•.....••..•••...••.•.•.•..•.••.•
Pneumonia and bronchopneumonia (107-109)..•....
Other diseases of the respiratory system (104, 105,
110-114)..•.•.........••....•.•.•..•...•...
Diarrhea and enteritis (119, 120)••.•.•.•....•..•.
Appendicitis (121).••....•••..•..•...•...•....•.
Diseases of the liver and biliary passages (124-127) ••
Other diseases of the digestive system {1l5-118,
122,123,128,129) .
Nephritis (130-132) .
Other diseases of the urinary and genital systems
(133-139). ..
Puerperal infection (140, 147).•....•...••••...•.•
Other diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and the
puerperium (141-146,148-150)....•.•........
Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones and organs
of movement (151-156) .•....•....•.••..•..•..
Congenital malformations and debility, premature
birth and diseases peculiar to the first year of life
(157-161)•................•...........•...•
Senility, old oge (162)•......••..........•....•.
Suicide (163, 164)..•...•...•......•.....•..•••
Homicide (165-168) ....•..•...•••.........•....
Automobile accidents (all motor-driven road vehicles)
(170)••.••.•.........••......•...........•.
Other violent or accidental deaths (suicide, homicide
and automobile accidents excepted) (169, 171-198).
Causes of death ill-defined, unknown or unspecifled
(199,200)....••...•••••....•......•....••.•
Union of S. Africa'
Union Sud-Africaine'
Possessions
1947
1949
1947
1948
1947
I----~---I----~--I-------,---~--~I----_---
Number Rate Number I Rate Number I Rate 1 Number I Rate Number I Rate
Nombre Taux Nombre Taux
"0:;
5:'1 64
627
1~~1
125\
86
4j
29'
6 1
235
2625
118
31
264
201
285
94
1 715
277
3578
1 756
447
1 429
435'
790
364
1
431 [
73
301
467
898
372
::1
43
1
1 324[
664
236
80
3711
i
862.8
2.2
0.1
0.0
2.1
2.6
25.8
5.3
0.8
5.1
3.5
0.2
1.2
0.2
9.7
107.8
4.8
1.3
10.8
0.8
11.7
3.9
70.4
11.4
146.9
72.1
18.4
58.7
17.9
17.7
3.0
12.4
19.2
36.9
15.3
1.0
2.7
1.8
54.4
27.3
9.7
3.3
15.2
32.4
14.9
Mauritius' [U.K.]
lie Maurice' [R.-U.]
,
9
3
49
555
33
158
182,
318
64
328
359
160
265
22
88
29
38
111
759
i
752t 642.6
53, 11.6
J
290;
20
936
22
93
180
123
174
900
2
39
858
235
35
7
0.4
5.2
63.3
4.4
204.4
4.8
20.3
2.0
39.3
26.9
0.7
10.7
121.2
7.2
34.5
39.7
69.4
14.0
71.6
78.4
38.0
196.5
0.4
8.5
34.9
57.9
4.8
19.2
6.3
187.3
51.3
7.6
1.5
8.3
24.2
165.7
21
46'
12
68,1
2!
1:
Mozambique' [Port.]
2
4
1
9
:1
3
32
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10
8
211
I
11
18
5
17
11(
12
~I
:1I
31
7
33
52
0.1
-!
0.2
0.6
0.1
0.0
0.2
0.0
0.1
0.6
0.3
1.7
0.2
0.1
0.4
0.2
0.3
0.1
0.31
0.2
0.2
0.0
1
0.0'1
0.0
0.0[
0.6
0.1
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Nombre ) Taux i Nombr~I_T_a_u_x_I__N_o_m_b_r_e T_a_u_x_
59:_~11' 1 ::~I, 73;_~[ 1:: ~ 1 64611 07:::
0'~1' 1
= 7-_
3) 0.1
45
2.6
16
37
20
4
30
9
83
1
2
39
9,
27
1
14
15
16
4
50
91
3
3
37
89
0.3
0.7
0.1
0.2
0.0
0.4
0.1
0.5
0.2
1.5
0.0
0.0
0.7
0.2
0.5
0.0
0.3
0.3
0.3
0.1
0.0
0.0
0.9
0.2
0.1
0.1
0.7
1.6
2
31
24
61
15
237
49
20
147
26
134
' =
0.01 3' 0.1 I 3.2
0.8) 8~1 1.5 318 206.7
!:~I 9~1 H ~!" 4~:~
O.~ 3, O.~ 1 ~I 7.~
0.0 11 0.0 8
1
5.2
1.3
18.2
46.2
5.2
3.2
1.3
20.1
15.6
39.7
9.8
154.1
31.9
13.0
95.6
26.0
65.7
2.0
15.6
24.1
31.2
2.6
3.3
0.7
3.3
16.3
35.8
1.3
16.9
87.1
1 Europeans only.
2 Including dependency of Rodrigues.
3 Non-indigenous population.
396
4 Ceuta and Melilla only. Excluding live-born infants dying within 24
hours of birth.
5 Registration notably incomplete.
6 Former mandated territory (Un. of S. Africa). Europeans only.