Administration report / Public Health Department, Colombo Municipality.
- Colombo (Sri Lanka). Public Health Department
- Date:
- [1920]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Administration report / Public Health Department, Colombo Municipality. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Causes of Deaths, &c.,—conid. Ward Nationality. d a 1 i Hospitals. Causes of Deaths. d 1 o H o g o 'o o cd o u o Pettah. CO CC St. Paul’s. Kotahena. New Bazaar Maradana. Slave Island Kollupitiya. Eastward Extension. Wellawatte Extension. Town Residents. Untraced. Non- Residents. « pH o u M ya bL 1 Sinhalese. Tamils. yj O k-H Malays. s o All Causes - 1 1 XIII. Affections produced by External Causes. 1 155. Suicide by Poison 1 156. Suicide by Asphyxia — — — — — — — — — — -- — — _ _ _ _ __ 157. Suicide by Hanging or Strangulation 2 — — — — — -- — — — — _ — _ _ _ _ 2 _ 158. Suicide by Drowning 1 — — — — — — — — _ — — _ _ 1 159. Suicide by Firearms 1 — — — — _ — — — — — — — — 1 _ 160. Suicide by Cutting or Pier- cing Instruments 161. Suicide by Jumping from high places 162. Suicide by Crushing 163. Suicide by other means ... 164. f Poisoning by Food a Snake-bite 3 -- — — — — — — — — — — — — -- — — 3 — — — 165. j h Insect Stings (Venomous') c Other Acute Poisonings... 2 1 1 166. Conflagration — — — _ — — — — — — — — — _ _ _ __ - - 167. Burns (Conflagration ex- cepted) 23 — — — — — — — — — — -- — — — 1 15 4 2 1 168. Absorption of Deleterious Gases ( Conflagration ex¬ cepted ) _ 169. Accidental Drowning 27 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 1 1 14 6 3 2 170. Traumatism by Firearms... 171. Traumatism by Cutting or Piercing Instruments ... 5 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 4 1 — — — ( a Traumatism by Fall from trees 6 Traumatism by Fall from 8 4 1 172.-^ heights other than trees. c Traumatism by other 1 — — — — — — — — — 1 — — -- — < Accidental Fall 5 - 1 2 2 — — — 173. Traumatism in Mines and Quarries — _ — ** 174. Traumatism by Machines... 2 — — — — — — ““ — — — — — — — — — 1 — 1 176. Traumatism by other Crush- ing (Vehicles, Rail-road Landslides, &c. ) 24 13 5 •> 1 3 176 Injuries by Animals 1 177. Starvation 178. Excessive Cold — — — — — — — — — — — — —' — — — — —■ — -- — 179. Effects of Heat — — — — — — . - — — — — ■— — — — — — — — 1,80. Lightning — — — -- — — — — — _ — — _ . — — — — - -- — 181. Electricity (Lightning ex- cepted 182. Homicide by Firearms ... — 183. Homicide by Cutting or 1 Piercing Instruments ... 4 — — -- — — — -- — — — — 1 — 1 — — — 1 184. Homicide by other means... 1 - — 185. Fractures ( cause not speci¬ fied ) a Judical Hanging or Exe- 3.7 — — — — — I 1 — — — — — — 2 21 5 4 — 3 186.- cution 12 ■ 11 1 — — — . h Other External Violence 14 — — — — 11 1 1 — 1 XIV. Ill-defined Diseases. 1 i • ( a Dropsy 11 -- _ ■ ■— — — — — — — — — — — ~ — K.) 1 — — - 187.. h Ascites c Other Ill-defined Organic 3 — — -- -, 2 1 1 ^ Diseases 1 188.' ' u Syncope h Sudden Death (not other- 1 •- — — , wise defined) — — — _ — — — — — — — — — “ 1 — — — — ■“* r a Heart-failure 27 — — _ — — — — — — — — -- — — 3 11 7 4 — 1 h Atrophy, Debility, &c. 1 94 2S 1 2 ( one year and over) ... 158 — — — — — — — — — '- — — ..— 20 189. ! c Teething d Pyrexia 43 -> — . — — — — — — — — — 1 — 23 10 8 — 1 e Marasmus and Asthenia 1£5 — * -- — — — — — —— — — -- — — — —- 9 106 19 38 9 4 / Other Ill-defined Causes... 13 — — — — — — — — — — ■- — ] — <1 1 — 1 1 _ q Diseases not specified ... 2 1 - 1 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31753516_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
