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22 deaths occurred in hospitals just outside the district, eight
being at the Northwood and Pinner Hospital and five at Wembley
Hospital. 106 deaths took place at various of the London general
and maternity hospitals (Middlesex Hospital 21, St. Bartholomew's
Hospital 13) and 14 at other hospitals. Five fatalities occurred
in municipal isolation hospitals.
1,108 deaths in a population of 144,280 represents the death
rate per thousand population of 7.7, compared with the figure of
11.7 for England and Wales, 11.8 for the Great Towns, and a local
rate of 8.1 for the district in 1934.
Death rates of districts are not comparable as the age and
sex distribution of populations are an important factor in determining
the rates. To eliminate variations in the death rates
arising by reason of different age distributions of population, the
Registrar-General now issues a comparability factor which when
applied to the crude death rate gives a corrected rate which is a
figure indicating the death rate that would have occurred in the
standard population, which standard population is taken as the
present age distribution of the population of the country as a
whole. These corrected death rates can then be used as indicators
of the comparative healthiness of districts. Those districts that
have a population of higher than average age will have a
comparability figure of less than unity, whereas those whose populations
contain a relative excess of young adult population will have
a figure greater than unity. The factor for this district is T17.
Applying this to the crude death rate gives a corrected death rate
of 9.0l, a figure to be compared with the national figure of 11.7.
The fatalities expressed as a rate per thousand population of
the infectious diseases compare favourably with the figures for
the country as a whole. There were no deaths from measles, and
the figures for whooping cough and influenza, namely 0.03 and
0.10 were lower than the national rates of 0.04 and 0.18. The
diphtheria rate of 0.01 is strikingly lower than the rate for the
country as a whole, namely 0.08, but that for scarlet fever, 0.02, is
higher than the national rate of 0.01.
Deaths from tuberculosis, both pulmonary and non-pulmonary
forms, were fewer than occurred in 1934, and the rate per hundred
thousand population, viz., 49.9, was well below that of 71.8 recorded
for the country as a whole.
The infant mortality rate was only 42.1 compared with the
figure of 47 in 1934. The rate for England and Wales was 57, and
in the Great Towns 62.
The maternal mortality rate of 3.46 is appreciably lower
than that of the previous year, and well below that for England
and Wales, namely 4.10.
There were 145 deaths from cancer this year, compared with
156 in 1934—but whereas last year the rate amongst females