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DEATHS
The number of deaths allocated by the Registrar-General, as adjusted
for the outward transfer of non-residents and the inward transfer of
residents dying outside the area was 602, 320 being males and 282 females.
This gives a crude death rate of 10.6 per thousand population. The "comparable"
death rate produced by the application of the Registrar-General's
"comparability factor" of 1.2 was therefore 12.7. That for England and
Wales as a whole was 11.9.
The crude death rate of 10.6 is the first time that the figure of 10 has
been reached since 1925. It is to a considerable degree a reflection of
the increased age of the population referred to in previous pages, since the
falling off in the population is mainly due to the outward migration of
young adults seeking separate accommodation which is not available in the
district.

Heart disease was again the chief cause of death, no less than l90
of the total being due to this cause. Of this 190 coronary disease of the
heart killed 124.
Cancer claimed 127 victims of which malignant disease of the lungs
accounted for 34. The following table shows the deaths from lung cancer
since 1936, the period in which the population remained fairly static.