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DEATHS
The deaths allocated to the district, as adjusted by inward and
outward transferable deaths, was 567—315 males and 252 females. This
gives a crude death rate of 9.9 per thousand population as against 9.0 in
the year before. The "comparable" death rate produced by the application
of the Registrar-General's "comparability factor" of 1.19 to allow
for differences in the age and sex constitution of the local population as
compared with the country as a whole was 11.7. The rate for England
and Wales was 12.0.
The "comparability factor" for application to the death rate like that
for the birth rate has been revised in the light of the census returns. For
many years it remained at 1.28. The new factor therefore postulates that
the age constitution of the local population has increased and there is not
the same necessity to "weight" the death rate so heavily as there was
when the population was younger to make it comparable with that for
England and Wales.
The distribution of the deaths by wards was as follows:—

Cancer deaths at 112 were 7 fewer than in 1960, but malignant
disease of the lungs claimed a higher proportion at 35. Of those who died
of this lung disease all were males but two.
The following table shows the deaths from lung cancer since 1936, a
period in which the population remained fairly steady.