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DEATHS.
The number of deaths registered was 445, of which 244 were
males and 201 females. This gives a crude death rate of 8.2 per
1,000 population compared with 11.4 for the country as a whole, and
with 9.5 for this district in the year before.
The distribution by wards was as follows: —

The high average age at death in the Central Ward is remarkable,
but is mainly the consequence of a high average age of the
residents of that ward.
Cancer deaths in 1944 reached the highest level yet recorded in
Carshalton. The rate for that year at 1.6 per 1,000 population was
repeated in 1945. As is to be expected the wards with the oldest
population have the highest cancer death rates, since this is a disease
of middle and advanced age. Although still less than the rate for
the country as a whole, it is likely to approach the national figure
as, with the passage of time, the average age of the population of
the district gradually approximates that for England and Wales.