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Deaths in the former registration area of Canada, by principal causes, 1921, 1926, and in the present registration area, 1926

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Deaths in the former registration area of Canada, by principal causes, 1921, 1926, and in the present registration area, 1926
	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926²	1926²
	number
Typhoid fever	501	419	480	287	311	210	466
Measles	297	211	350	483	171	511	893
Scarlet fever	410	335	322	329	258	204	362
Whooping cough	626	469	747	536	558	642	1,246
Diphtheria	1,297	1,024	851	848	615	552	922
Influenza	940	2,400	3,578	1,306	2,182	3,082	5,164
Tuberculosis, lungs	3,903	3,870	3,959	3,821	3,779	3,767	6,466
Tuberculosis, other organs	886	871	859	829	753	864	1,442
Cancer	4,826	5,118	5,157	5,528	5,526	5,766	7,606
Diabetes mellitus	611	707	722	637	634	762	1,045
Anaemia chlorosis	735	780	756	811	814	852	1,036
Meningitis	592	328	287	322	274	270	795
Cerebral haemorrhage, apoplexy	2,600	2,598	2,467	2,348	2,284	2,482	3,035
Paralysis	809	739	698	704	683	692	1,320
Infantile convulsions (under 5 years)	614	599	477	451	431	413	570
Diseases of the heart	6,021	6,622	7,491	7,180	7,587	8,539	11,418
Diseases of the arteries	2,555	2,889	3,164	3,690	3,805	3,992	4,979
Bronchitis	905	851	751	444	395	411	586
Pneumonia	5,966	6,399	6,237	5,007	4,149	5,762	8,405
Diarrhea and enteritis	3,218	2,843	2,061	1,891	2,198	1,675	5,413
Appendicitis	816	840	843	924	941	922	1,318
Hernia, intestinal obstruction	568	634	615	725	669	657	889
Nephritis	2,041	2,113	2,472	2,667	2,880	3,125	5,145
Diseases of the prostate	304	319	375	428	493	555	734
Puerperal causes	868	907	849	945	873	887	1,314
Congenital malformations	862	908	990	1,061	1,101	957	1,521
Diseases of early infancy	6,090	6,169	5,729	5,363	5,047	5,419	9,870
Senility (old age)	2,914	2,759	2,918	2,566	2,097	2,033	2,751
Suicides	431	487	538	535	586	599	683
Violent deaths (suicides excepted)	3,666	3,647	3,833	3,670	3,873	3,860	5,179
Other specified causes	8,782	8,491	8,383	8,597	8,390	8,866	13,466
Total specified causes	65,654	67,346	68,959	64,933	65,357	69,328	106,069
Ill-defined diseases	2,068	1,682	1,223	1,264	1,120	739	1,249
Total deaths	67,722	69,028	70,182	66,197	66,477	70,067	107,318
1. The numbers given in this column refer to the International List of Causes of Death, as revised in 1920 by the International Commission on the Classification of Diseases and Causes of Death. This classification is accepted in almost all civilized countries.
2. Provisional figures; the first column for 1926 is for the former registration area, so as to be comparable with the figures for previous years. The last column is for all nine provinces, Quebec having come into the registration area as of January 1, 1926.
Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book, 1927/1928.