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Stillbirths.—The number of stillbirths registered during 1945 was
18 (6 males and 12 females), as compared with 21 in the preceding year.
All but two of the stillbirths occurred in legitimate children. The local
stillbirth rate was thus 0.43 per thousand of population, as compared
with 0.42 for the preceding year and a national stillbirth rate of 0.46.

DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered during 1945 as belonging to this
District was 549 (276 males and 273 females), as compared with 651 in
1944.
This number excludes deaths which, although occurring within the
District, belonged to other districts, but includes deaths of residents who
died outside the District and also non-residents dying in the District who
have previously had no permanent place of abode.
As will be seen from the table of vital statistics the crude death rate
for the year was equal to 10.2 per thousand of population, as compared
with 12.9 in the preceding year and was well below the average for the
war years, though considerably above the pre-war average of 7.8. Undoubtedly
the local war-time increase in the death rate is chiefly due to
the absence of the younger age groups in the Forces, etc., which has
caused the local rate to approximate to the national rate for civilians,
which has not varied greatly and averaged 12.8 for the war years.

A full list of the causes of the deaths, and the ages at which they
occurred, is given in Table IV in the Appendix.
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