View report page

6
POPULATION.
The Registrar-General has supplied two estimates of population
for the year 1939. One, 52,700, which is to be used for calculating
the Birth Rates, represents the normal population, while the
other, 50,700, makes allowance for the changes in population which
resulted from war conditions. This latter figure is used in calculating
Death Rates and the incidence of infectious disease.
BIRTHS.
The number of live births registered during the year was 624,
giving a Birth Rate of 11.8, which is appreciably less than 12.3.
the rate for the two previous years.

DEATHS.
The number of deaths belonging to Wood Green, after making
the necessary adjustments for inward and outward transfers, was
594. This represents a Death Rate of 11.7 per 1,000 of population,
which compares very unfavourably with 10.1, the rate for the previous
year.
Of the total deaths, no fewer than 321, or 54 per cent., occurred
in persons over 65 years of age.
The chief causes of death were very much as in former years.
Heart disease was responsible for 179 deaths, or 30 per cent. of all
the deaths, while cancer caused 104 deaths, pneumonia 30 and tuberculosis
28.
The number of deaths due to the principal zymotic diseases,
enteric fever, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping
cough and diarrhoea (in children under 2 years) was 4. Of this number
two were due to diarrhoea and one each to diphtheria and whooping
cough.
The zymotic death rate was 0.07 per 1,000 of population, as
compared with 0.11 for the previous year.