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TANULMÁNYOK - Mádai Lajos: Településhigiénés és demográfiai viszonyok a fővárosban az 1870-es években (angol nyelven)

Table 3. The major causes of death and the age of the deceased 1876—1881 Illness Number Per cent Average age „ , of deceased of deceased Tuberculosis 16,890 22.4 28.9 Catarrh of the bowels 7,406 9.8 4.6 Inflammation of the lungs, pleuritis, bronchitis 6,650 8.8 18.9 0.4 Congenital weakness 4,437 5.9 18.9 0.4 Convulsions 4,104 5.3 0.8 Membraneous inflammation of the throat and diphteria 2,806 3.7 3.9 Desiccation in old age 2,200 2.9 75.4 Inflammation of the brain and its cortex 2,180 2.9 110 Typhus 1,812 2.4 31.8 Smallpox 1,620 1,566 2.2 7.3 Inflammation of the bowels 1,620 1,566 2.1 7.6 Cerebral haemorrhage and stroke 1,548 2.1 55.0 Organic heart disease 1,534 2.1 46.1 Measles 1,021 1.4 2.3 Scarlet fever 1,078 1.4 4.7 Altogether 56,762 75.4 Other diseases 18,556 24.6 Altogether 75,318 100.0