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During the year the number of births corrected by inward and
outward transfers was 3,941, giving a corrected birth rate of 13.63
compared with 14.75 last year, a decrease of 1.12 per one thousand
population. In 1931 there was also a decrease of 0.53 compared
with the rate in 1930.
The principal causes of death are again the same four, heart
disease which claimed 981 or 25.8 per cent, of the total, cancer
477 or 12.58 per cent., diseases of the lungs 391 or 10.3 per cent.,
and tuberculosis 274 or 7.2 per cent.
The deaths from tuberculosis are less by seven than they were
in 1932, but owing to the estimated population being 3,300 lower,
the death rate per one thousand population is but slightly lower,
being .94 compared with .96.