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Table 3. Number of deaths due to each of the three causes analyzed and percentages that
they represent from the total.
Cause of death Number Percentage
Gastroenteritis 93 812 7.58%
Smallpox 73 307 5.92%
Malaria 7 106 0.57%
Total 174 225 14.07%
5.2 Temporal distribution
Figure 1 and Figure 2 show the annual number of deaths due to each of the causes
analyzed. Figure 1 shows the stacked values while Figure 2 pictures a line for each
disease.
The stacked graph gives an idea of the magnitude or weight that the analyzed diseases
had in general mortality. Gastroenteritis and smallpox were very important while malaria
was not that much, at a general level. The three of them are present along the whole
period and especially gastroenteritis was very important in certain times, when general
mortality augmented. The profile of the stacked values of the three diseases analyzed is,
generally speaking, coincident with the profile of general mortality.
Fig. 1. Annual stacked values of deaths due to each of the causes studied. The area in white
colour represents all the deaths due to other causes than the analyzed; its profile shows the
total number of annual deaths.
Analyzing the individual behaviour of each of the death causes separately, some
particular characteristics can be recognized. In Figure 2 can be observed that smallpox
presents a dynamic marked by recurrent peaks and troughs, which do not seem to respond