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DEATHS
The number of deaths registered during 1963 as belonging
to this District was 994 (415 males and 579 females), the same as
the previous year. Of this total 259 deaths (73 males and 186
females) occurred in the mental hospitals. The uncorrected death
rate was 13.3, but the corrected death rate which allows for the
high proportion of deaths occurring in the mental hospitals was
10.3 which compares with the rate of 12.2 for England and Wales.
In order that a more accurate comparison can be made, the
records in respect of normal residents have been kept separate
from those of mental hospital patients and a full list of the causes
of deaths and the ages at which they occurred is given in Table
III.

HEART AND CIRCULATORY DISEASE
Among the ordinary residents the death rate from heart and
circulatory disease was 3.94 compared with an average of 3.52
in the preceding five years.
CANCER
The number of deaths from malignant neoplasms in the
general population was 134. Thirty of these, i.e. 22% were due to
cancer of the lung.
The considerable increase shown in 1962, i.e. fifty cases of
cancer of the lung, 31% of the deaths from malignant neoplasms,
has not been maintained and the figures for 1963 correlate closely
with those for 1961.
It would be premature to make an optimistic interpretation of
these figures and the warnings given on the danger of smoking are
still reiterated.
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