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Deaths and Death Rates.
Total deaths in the district 859
Outward transfers 85
Inward transfers 634
Deaths of residents 1,408
Of the 85 deaths of non-residents occurring in the district,
27 took place at the Orthopaedic Hospital, 10 at the Harrow and
Wealdstone Hospital, 3 at the North Middlesex County Hospital,
13 at local nursing or maternity homes and 30 in private houses.
Of the 634 deaths of local residents which occurred outside the
area most took place in institutions, 199 being at Redhill Hospital,
182 at Redhill House, and 28 at other county hospitals, including
9 newly born infants. 7 deaths occurred at institutions for the
treatment of the tuberculous (3 at county tuberculosis institutions)
and 24 at mental hospitals (23 at Shenley). 36 deaths occurred in
hospitals just outside the district and 5 at municipal isolation
hospitals. 112 deaths took place in various of the London general
and maternity hospitals, including 5 deaths of infants of mothers
confined in the hospitals.
Thirty-three local residents died in the Harrow and Wealdstone
Hospital.
1,408 deaths in a population of 189,300 is a death rate of 7.4.
The corrected death rate obtained by the application of the area
comparability factor of 1.17 is 8.6.
The fatalities of the infectious diseases expressed as a rate
per thousand population compare favourably with figures for the
country as a whole. The rates for measles (0), scarlet fever
(0), whooping cough (0.015), diphtheria (0.045) and influenza (0.11)
were all lower than the corresponding national rates of 0.01, 0.01,
0.03, 0.05 and 0.21.