demographic yearbook annuaire demographique 1951

DEATHS
22. Deaths by cause, numbers and rates (continued)
[See headnote on page 396.]
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Cause of death
AMERICA, SOUTH
(Abridged International List, Fifth Revision, 1938.
Detailed List numbers are shown in parentheses)
All causes.••••••.•..••••.•.•.•..•.••.•.•••••
Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers (1, 2)•.•.•••••••••
Plague (3) ••••.••.•••••.•.••.•.•.••••••••••.••
Scarlet fever (8) .•.••••.•••.••.••.•.••.•.•.••.•
Whooping cough (9) ••••••.••.•..•.••••••••••••.
Diphtheria (I 0) .•••••.••..•.•.•••..•.•..•.•.••.
Tuberculosis of the respiratory system (13) .
All other farms of tuberculosis (14-22) .
Malaria (28) .
Syphilis (30) .
Influenza (33) .
Smallpox (34) .
Measles (35) .
Typhus fever and typhus-like diseases [Rickettsioses]
(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 (nonmeningococcal) 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 (115- 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 age (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 unspecified
(199,200).•......•...............•.........
Virgin Islands ll [U.S.Jlies
Vierges" [E.-U.]
1947 I 1948
Number I Rate I
Nombre Taux
!----!
340,1 259.5
39~i 1 450·:1
I
2
15
1~1
7
19
2
5
2
7.4
55.2
40.5
25.8
70.0
7.4
18.4
7.4
4 14.7
1 3.7
25 92.1
5 18.4
99 364.6
28 103.1
1 3.7
17 62.6
2 7.4
31 114.2
2 7.4
4 14.7
7 25.8
14 51.6
6 22.1
1 3.7
2 7.4
1 3.7
36 132.6
27 99.4
3 11.0
1 3.7
2 7.4
6 22.1
6 22.1
Number
Nombre
Rate
Taux
10 37.0 \
- -I
14 51.9
1 3.7
4 14.8
22 81.5
4 14.8
1 3.7
3 11.1
2 7.4
21 77.8
1 3.7
88 326.0
15 55.6
28 103.7
2 7.4
24 88.9
5 18.5
7 25.9
12 44.5
2 7.4
2 7.4
2 7.4
32 118.5
10 37.0
1 3.7
4 14.8
1 3.7
13 48.2
9 33.3
Windward Islands
[U.K.]
lies Windward
[R.-U.]
1948
Number [' Rate
Nombre Taux
13
4 086 1 596.1
37 14.5
53 20.7
2 0.8
291 113.7
189 73.8
96 37.5
2 0.8
110 43.0
90 35.2
11 4.3
3 1.2
29 11.3
165 64.5
1 0.4
108 42.2
41 16.0
351 137.1
65 25.4
91 35.5
169 66.0
33 12.9
397 155.1
3 1.2
21 8.2
69 27.0
110 43.0
16 6.3
6 2.3
15 5.9
14 5.5
559 218.4
544 212.5
1 0.4
22 8.6
372 145.3
Colombia­
Colombie
1948 1947
Number I Rate Number Rate
Nombre Taux Nombre Taux
I---I----!---
1543921 432.6 *79 364 1 048.1
1 5601 14.5
31 0.0
141 0.1
38561 35.8
485 4.5
4182 38.8
441 4.1
2929 27.2
655 6.1
2067 19.2
463 4.3
760 7.1
1 537 14.3
6792 63.0
3462 32.1
548 5.1
539 5.0
265 2.5
56 0.5
5990
1 817
2419
957
6733
1 176
7137
13402
1 083
15470
168
2752
3676
3827
1 286
226
1 522
401
7055
3080
315
1715
576
4393
36602
55.6
16.9
22.4
8.9
62.5
10.9
66.2
124.4
10.0
143.5
1.6
25.5
34.1
35.51
11.9
2.1
14.1
3.7
65.5
28.6
15.9
2.9\
5.3
40.8
339.6
909 12.0
122 1.6
388 5.1
6443 85.1
225 3.0
5637 74.4
1 023 13.5
2134 28.2
181 2.4
4947 65.3
476 6.3
1 122 14.8
1 316 17.4
2181 28.8
990 13.1
304 4.0
3260 43.1
2231
2937
1 992
8117
548
4090
54
810
2745
1 402
979
124
5033
2895
2180
11569
29.5
38.8
26.3
107.2
7.2
54.0
0.7
10.7
36.3
18.5
12.9
1.6
66.5
38.2
28.8
152.8
11 Excluding deaths among armed forces outside country.
13 Number differs by 8 from those given in other sources.
14 Excluding jungle inhabitants. Coverage notably incomplete.
15 Excluding Bushnegroes and aboriginal Indians.
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