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Out of a total of 85 deaths I concluded that 28 were directly
associated with the fog.
In the Statistical Supplement will be found a chart showing
the proportion of deaths from the principal causes, from which
will be seen that diseases affecting the heart and important blood
vessels are most numerous, cancer second, and lung conditions
occupy third place.
(e) Infant Mortality.
The number of deaths of infants under one year of age
during the year was 37, giving an annual mortality rate per
1,000 live births of 21.
(f) Maternal Mortality.
Two maternal deaths occurred during the year as against
one for the previous year, resulting in a death rate of 1.10 per
1,000 live and still-births.
Census of Great Britain, 1951.
An innovation of considerable interest and importance in
the trend of census development in Great Britain has been the
introduction by the Registrar-General of a Report entitled
" Census 1951, Great Britain, One Per Cent. Sample Tables."
This Report marks a further and novel stage in the work
of census analysis and the decision of the Registrars-General of
England and Wales and of Scotland to isolate and analyse a
small sample of the total records collected throughout the respective
countries at the enumeration of the 8th April, 1951, has
resulted in a joint publication well in advance of the time by
which their own separate reports dealing with the full census
returns would normally be available.
The Volume implementing this decision and embodying
extensive analyses of the various census characteristics of a
representative sample of one per cent, of the 1951 population of
Great Britain is being published in two sections, of which the
present publication constitutes the first portion.
Part II, the concluding part of the Sample Report, will be
published at a later date.
The Report contains sections giving the distribution of the
population by age and marital condition, occupations, industries
and the housing of private households.