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negligence in fact, and, in tlie second place, in those cases 

 "where such negligence can fairly be alleged its degree or 

 significance is undeterminable and in many cases surely 

 slight. 



Senility as a cause of death is not further classifiable 



TABLE 8 

 All Other Causes 



No. 



187, 



188 & 



189 



154 



45 



152* 



34 

 46 



55 



153 



19 



' Cause of Death " as per International 

 Classification 



All external causes (except suicide) 



Hl-defined diseases 



Senility 



Cancer of other organs or of organs 

 not specified 



Other causes peculiar to early in- 

 fancy 



Tuberculosis of other organs 



Other tumors (female genital or- 

 gans excepted) 



Other general diseases 



Lack of care 



Other epidemic diseases 



Registration Area, 

 U. S. A. 



11906-10 l§01-05 



91.9 



29.4 

 29.0 



12.9 



3.4 

 2.1 



1.0 

 1.0 

 0.3 

 0.3 



Totals 171.3 211.8 141.4 109.8 



87.8 



47.8 

 41.0 



16.1 



2.6 

 2.0 



1.5 



0.5 



12.3 



0.2 



England 



and 



Wales 



1914 



26.1 



7.3 



81.5, 



16.6 



5.1 

 1.6 



0.5 

 1.5 

 0.6 

 0.6 



Sao 

 Paulo 

 1917 



36.4 



36.3 

 11.1 



17.9 



3.3 

 0.2 



0.9 

 3.5 

 

 0.2 



* In part. 



on an organological basis. A death really due to old 

 age, in the sense of Metchnikoff, represents, from the 

 point of view of the present discussion, a breaking down 

 or wearing out of all the organ systems of the body con- 

 temporaneously. In a strict sense this probably never, 

 or at best extremely rarely, happens. But physicians 

 and registrars of mortality still return a certain number 

 of deaths as due to * * senility. ' ' Under the circumstances 



