Cause of death | Boys | Girls | Total |
---|---|---|---|
*From the Office for National Statistics, 1997.2 | |||
Injury and poisoning | 394 (21) | 196 (15) | 590 (18) |
Congenital anomalies | 247 (13) | 211 (16) | 458 (14) |
Symptoms, signs, and other ill defined conditions (including sudden infant death syndrome) | 239 (13) | 138 (10) | 377 (12) |
Diseases of the nervous system | 181 (10) | 134 (10) | 315 (10) |
Infectious and parasitic diseases | 152 (8) | 112 (8) | 264 (8) |
All other conditions | 655 (35) | 532 (40) | 1187 (37) |
Total deaths | 1868 (100) | 1323 (100) | 3191 (100) |