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Mortality The principal causes of death were diseases of
the heart and circulation (56 per cent.) and cancer (17.6 per
cent.) Deaths from cancer of the lung decreased from thirty eight
to thirty six Deaths from coronary diseases increased from one
hundred and thirty to one hundred and eighty four. Deaths from
accidents declined from twenty four to twenty three, of which
eleven were due to motor vehicles.
Epidemiological and statistical studies have directed
attention to factors which are contributory to constitutional
diseases There is definite statistical correlation between the
smoking of cigarettes and cancer of the lung. The risk of mortality
can be reduced by abstinence from tobacco.

Maternal Mortality. There was one maternal death. This was
due to paralytic ileus following a Caesarian operation.
Infantile Mortality. There were seventeen deaths of infants
under one year in 1958, compared with twenty six in 1957. The
infantile mortality rate was 16.4 per thousand live births,
compared with 22.5 per thousand live births for England and Wales.
Of the seventeen deaths, eleven occurred in the neo-natal period
within one month of birth as is shown in the following table of
causes and age groups.
AGE GROUPS
Causes of Death
Under 1 month 1-12 months
Prematurity 6
Congenital abnormality 2 2
Birth injury 2
Broncho Pneumonia - 2
Accident - 1
Other causes 1 1
Totals 11 6
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