Annual report 2009-2010, NT Child Deaths Review and Prevention Committee
NT Child Deaths Review and Prevention Committee annual report 2009-2010
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Page 42 as a result of a variety of causes. It seems as though infants tend to have one particular disease, condition or injury that causes the death. Figure 14: NT Causes of Deaths by Age 1-17 and Classification Grouping 20062009 Aggregate 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 1. Bl oo d 2. Un de te rm ine d 3. Ci rc ula to ry 4. Di ge sti ve 5. Illde fin ed 6. In fe cti ou s 7. In jur y 8. M ult ipl e Ca us es 9. Ne op las m s 10 . N er vo us 11 . R es pir at or y N um be r of D ea th s 2006-2009 Key to Categories: 1. Blood diseases and disorders involving the immune mechanism; 2. Cause of death not determined; 3. Circulatory system; 4. Digestive System; 5. Ill-defined Systems and Signs; 6. Infectious and Parasitic Diseases; 7. Injury and Poisoning; 8. Multiple Causes of Death; 9. Neoplasms; 10. Nervous System; 11. Respiratory System. Table 15: NT Causes of Deaths by Age 1-17 and Classification Grouping 20062009 Aggregate 2006 2007 2008 2009 Total 1. Blood 1 1 2. Undetermined 1 1 4 6 3. Circulatory 2 4 1 7 4. Digestive 1 1 5. Ill-defined 1 1 2 6. Infectious 1 1 7. Injury 8 11 14 4 37 8. Multiple Causes 4 2 5 5 16 9. Neoplasms 2 1 3 10. Nervous 1 1 11. Respiratory 3 3 2 4 12 Total 19 22 26 20 87 Injury and Poisoning make up the majority of the CODs in this age range that tends to correlate with the majority of the External Causes group classification of UCODs for this age range. This is the case, for example, where a childs death occurred through intentional selfharm by hanging. The UCOD will be grouped as an External Cause and the resulting asphyxiation caused by the hanging will be grouped within the Injury and Poisoning category as the COD. In this age range there tends to be more deaths which were the result of Multiple Causes with Multiple Causes representing 17% of the total deaths. This is in contrast to the low percentage represented in the infant age range. As previously noted there remains a number of deaths that have no COD as they remain with the Territory Coroner.