. Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Maryland for the Year Ending December 31, 1912. . dementia, loco-motor ataxia, myelitis, insanity 3,024 3,170 6,194 hemorrhage, puerperal septicemia-puerperal albuminuria and convulsions, pleg-masia alba dolens 105 106 211 , homicide, murder, dueling, accidentalviolence, poisoning, gas inhalation, drowning,strangulation and legal execution, death byinsulation, lightning, freezing, burns 490 622 1,112 Inaccurately , hemorrhage, benign tumors, pul-monary conges
. Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Maryland for the Year Ending December 31, 1912. . dementia, loco-motor ataxia, myelitis, insanity 3,024 3,170 6,194 hemorrhage, puerperal septicemia-puerperal albuminuria and convulsions, pleg-masia alba dolens 105 106 211 , homicide, murder, dueling, accidentalviolence, poisoning, gas inhalation, drowning,strangulation and legal execution, death byinsulation, lightning, freezing, burns 490 622 1,112 Inaccurately , hemorrhage, benign tumors, pul-monary congestion and apoplexy, and organ-ic diseases of unspecified nature 140 328 468 Total 9,490 19,150 *A11 communicable diseases have been assumed to be due to a livingorganism, and included in this list whether the specific cause has beendiscovered or not. fThe distinction between these three classes is one of kind, ratherthan degree as all parasitic diseases may at some time be communicable. JTncludes mainly the disorders dependent on advanced years andprolonged strain. 36 REPORT OF THE. Chakt 5—Maryland Classification of Causes of Death, 1912. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. Principal Causes of Death. The principal causes of death are separately considered, astogether they cause about seventy-five per cent, of the totalmortality, and they are, in the main, preventable diseases. In Table XV the twenty principal causes of death are tabu-lated, the table giving the number of deaths, the percentage ofthe total deaths and the mortality per 10,000. There has been a marked decrease in the deaths from pul-monary and laryngeal tuberculosis. The total number of deathsfrom this cause in 1910 was 2,315, in 1911 the total numberof deaths was 2,223, and in 1912 was 2,178. The per cent, oftotal mortality has dropped from in 1910, to in1912. On the other hand, deaths from certain non-infectiousdiseases, as organic heart disease and chronic Brights diseasehave increased. Deaths from
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