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Table 2: Selected Causes of Death in Kalk Bay - Muizenberg, 1914-1915

CAUSES OF DEATH European Other Total
Phthisis (TB) 9 9
Bronchitis 2 5 7

Premature birth 6 6
Apoplexy 1 5 6
Pneumonia 6 6
Diarrhoea 1 3 4

Whooping cough 3 3
Enteric (Typhoid) 3 3
Cancer 2 1 3
Convulsion 1 2 3

Old Age 2 2
Burns or scalds 2 2
Diphtheria 1 1
Measles 1 1

Syphilis 1 1
Drowning 1 1
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Total 10 48 58
Table 3: Infant Mortality Rate and some causes of disease in Kalk Bay -

Muizenberg, 1918-1919

IMR European Non-European

42.25 (lowest in the city) 306.93 (9th of 14 wards)
CAUSE OF DEATH
Enteric 1
Diphtheria 3

TB 1 14
Smallpox 7 (2 died)
Influenza (1918 'flu) 11 54

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