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BIOLOGY OF DEATH 



TABLE 16 a 



Showing Fisher's ratios of preventdbility for the diseases enumerated in the 



Ttiortality statistics of the United States, together toith the relative 



importarux of each disease as indicated by the percentage the 



number of its deaths bears to the total number of deaths 



Causes of death 



1 



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 

 3B 

 40 

 41 

 42 



Premature birth 



Congenital malformation of the heart 



Other congenital malformations 



Congenital debility 



Hydrocephalus 



Venereal diseases 



Diarrhoea and enteritis 



Measles 



Acute bronchitis 



Bronchopneumonia 



Whooping cough 



Croup 



Meningitis 



Diseases of larynx — not laryngitis 



Laryngitis 



Diphtheria 



.Scarlet fever 



Diseases of lymphatics 



Tonsillitis 



Tetanus 



Tuberculosis — not of lungs 



Abscess 



Appendicitis 



Typhoid fever 



Puerperal convulsions 



Puerperal septicemia 



Other diseases of childbirth 



Diseases of tubes 



Peritonitis 



Smallpox 



Tuberculosis of lungs 



Violence 



Malarial fever 



Septicemia '. 



Epilepsy 



General, ill-defined, and unknown causes (in- 

 cluding "heart failure," "dropsy," and "con 

 vulsions") 



Erysipelas 



Pneumonia (lobar and unqualified) 



Acute nephritis 



Pleurisy 



Acute yellow atrophy of liver 



Obstructions of intestines 



