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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
The comparable figures for the previous year appear in brackets
Population Registrar-General's estimate
(a) resident population, mid 1939 270,800 (272,800)
(b) average population appropriate to
the calculation of death rates 254,800

Notification of births
Total number of notified births 4,844 (5,886)
Stillbirths
Total M F
103 41 62
Deaths Death rate per 1,000 estimated
3,444 1,708 1,736 average population as adjusted
by comparability factor
13.37 (11.78)
Deaths from puerperal causes
Puerperal sepsis Nil Rate per 1,000 total (live
Other puerperal causes 4 and still) births 1.18 (1.82)
Infantile Mortality Rate 57 (51)
Classification of deaths
The causes of deaths were as follows:- typhoid 0, measles 0,
scarlet fever 1, whooping cough 8, diphtheria 3, influenza 60
encephalitis lethargica 3, cerebro-spinal fever 2, tuberculosis
of respiratory system 212, other tuberculosis 29, syphilis 10,
general paralysis of the insane 12, cancer 466, diabetes 38,
cerebral haemorrhage 179, heart disease 1,110, aneurysm 24, other
circulatory diseases 154, bronchitis 114, pneumonia (all forms) 179,
other respiratory diseases 24, peptic ulcer 48, diarrhoea under 2
years 25, diarrhoea 2 years and over 6, appendicitis 15, cirrhosis
of liver 14, other diseases of liver 16, other digestive diseases 43,
acute and chronic nephritis 68, puerperal sepsis 0, other puerperal
causes 4, congenital debility, premature birth, malformations
etc.109, senility 121, suicide 33, other violence 105, other defined
diseases 207, causes ill defined or unknown 2.
Total deaths 3,444.
Infantile Mortality
There were 192 deaths of infants under one year of age. The
causes of deaths were as follows:- whooping cough 6, influenza 4
other tuberculosis 1, syphilis 2, bronchitis 8, pneumonia 19
diarrhoea 24, appendicitis 1, other digestive diseases 3, congenital
dibility, premature birth etc. 109, violence 7, other defined
diseases 8.
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