demographic yearbook annuaire demographique 1951

DEATHS
22. Deaths by cause, numbers and rates {continued>
[See headnote on poge 396.]
EUROPE (continued)
Cause of death
Switzerland -
Suisse
1947
1948
1949
(Abridged International List, Fifth Revision, 1938.
Detailed List numbers are shown in parentheses)
Number
Nombre
Rate
Taux
Number
Nombre
Number
Nombre
Rate
Taux
r
All causes.•..•.•..•.•....•..•.••••.•••...•••
51 384
1 130.1
49679
49497 1 064.5
1
2
3
45
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
43
44
Typhoid and paratyphoid fevers (I, 2) ..••••••.••••
Plague (3) •.••••••••••••••.••••••.••••.•••.•.•
Scarlet fever (8) •..••.••••.•.••.••.••••.•••.•••
Whooping 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 [Rickellsioses)
(39) ..••.•....•.....•.•..•.................
Other infectious or parasitic diseases (4-7, 1 I, 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 (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) .
23
19
61
194
2403
652
2
177
702
25
547
8090
131
207
453
96,
845
230
1492
630
10028
8482
551
2287
651
401
363
707
1 094
987
810
38
119
193
2230
1 184
1 142
39
466
2 161
0.5
0.4
1.3
4.3
52.8
14.3
0.0
3.9
15.4
0.5
12.0
177.9
2.9
4.6
10.0
2.1
18.6
5.1
32.8
13.9
220.5
186.5
12.1
50.3
14.3
8.8
8.0
15.5
24.1
21.7
17.8
0.8
2.6
4.2
49.0
26.0
25.1
0.9
10.2
47.5
10.4
18
10
85
128
1 887
524
2
151
258
-I
~I
415
8338
188
218
514
113
888
202
1 357
636
10271
8758
422
1 740
579
385
297
857
1 044
1 119
769
38
116
149
2 186
1 028'
1 036
48
522
1 936
443
0.2
1.8
2.8
40.9
11.4
0.0'1'
3.3
5'~1
0.11
-I
9.0i
180.9'
4.1
4.7
11.2
2.51
19.3
4.4
29.4:
13.8
222.8
190.0
9.2,
37.8:
12.6
8.4
6.4
18.6
22.7
24.3
16.7
0.8
2.5
3.2
47.4
22.3
22.5
1.0
11.3
42.0
9.6
16 0.3
- -
9 0.2
101 2.2
63 1.4
1 512 32.5
444 9.5
2 0.0
153 3.3
613 13.2
- -
20 0.4
- -
444 9.5
8366 179.9
154
3.3
177 3.8
533 11.5
1
128 2.8
818 17.6
191 4.1
1 244 26.8
542 11.7
10230 220.0
9284 199.7
421 9.1
1734 37.3
616 13.2
380 8.2
301
6.5
916 19.7
1
977 21.0
948 20.4
745 16.0
29 0.6
112 2.4
127 2.7
2028 43.6
1 079 23.2
1 102 23.7
40 0.9
458 9.8
2008 43.2
432 9.3
30 Excluding deaths among armed forces outside country.
416