View report page

Stillbirths.—Seventy-two stillbirths were allocated to this
Borough. Fifty-eight were registered in the Borough, of
which number nine were outward transfers. Twenty-three
were born outside the Borough and were transferred by the
Registrar-General.
Deaths.—During the year 1,347 deaths were registered
in the Borough, as compared with 1,359 in the previous
year. Adding 560 deaths of residents of this Borough
which occurred in general hospitals and other public institutions,
and 23 deaths of residents transferred by the
Registrar-General as having occurred in various parts of
England, and deducting 395 deaths of non-residents and
11 transferable deaths which occurred in the Borough, the
corrected number of deaths of residents was 1,524 (786
males, 738 females).
On the estimated population, i.e., 128,100, the corrected
number of deaths of residents was equal to an annual
rate of 11.9 deaths per 1,000 persons living.
Populations of all areas are not similarly constituted as
regards the proportions of their sex and age group components,
and their crude death-rates fail as true comparative
mortality indexes in that their variations are not due to
mortality alone but arise also from differences in the population
constitution, the two elements being combined in
indistinguishable proportions.