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Other Diseases. 
Results of Post-Mortem Examinations .—The bodies were obtained from 
the District Hospital, Kwala Lumpur, from April ist, 1903, to August 15th, 
1904. During the period 805 Chinese and 126 Tamils and Bengalese died. 
Of these the bodies of 328 Chinese and 32 Tamils were examined. On 
account of religious and racial prejudices no autopsies can be obtained on 
Malays whether from Malay proper or the islands in the Malay Archipelago. 
It is to be, therefore, noted that these examinations show the diseases 
present and the causes of death in imported races only. How far the 
diseases also were imported or acquired in the country is in some cases 
uncertain, but as most of the cases were of persons who had been resident 
in various parts of the Federated Malay States for some years, all the acute 
diseases must have been acquired in this country. 
Generally speaking, only a few of the examinations made were of selected 
cases, but there were exceptions which will be considered separately, lhe 
causes of death were, in many instances, complicated. Dysentery in 
particular appears to be a terminal disease in many chronic illnesses, just as 
diarrhoea in children is often the last stage of any wasting disease in 
temperate climates. 
Of the Chinese cases examined, 328 in all, 65 had Dysentery, 64 
Tuberculosis, 19 Acute Malaria with parasites present, 17 Pneumonia, 5 
Typhoid, in 34 probably the chief cause of death was Beri-beri. Ihere 
were 17 deaths from Sepsis, 14 from Cirrhosis of the Liver, 10 from 
Malignant Disease, and two from uncomplicated Anchylostomasis. 
Of the 32 Tamils examined, 17 died of dysentery, 5 from Pneumonia 
and Anchylostomasis respectively, and 4 from Tuberculosis. 
Subjoined in tabular form is tire percentage of each of the more 
common diseases in the two races. 
Percentage of Deaths. 
Chinese. 
Tamils. 
Dysentery ... 
22 
5 1 
Tuberculosis 
19-5 
12 
Beri-Beri 
10.3 
. . . 
Malaria 
6.6 
• • • 
Pneumonia ... 
6 
Achylostomasis . 
.6 
13 
Malignant Disease... 
3-3 
• • • 
Cirrhosis of Liver ... 
4.6 
3 
Sepsis 
5 - 6 
* • • 
Bright’s Disease 
3 
• • • 
Typhoid 
2 
• • • 
It will be seen that there is a marked difference in the incidence of the 
diseases in the two races, and that whilst 1 amils suffer more from Dysentery 
