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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
AREA. 2,136 acres.

STILL BIRTHS. Total. Males. Females.
42 22 20 Rate per 1,000 total births
24.2
DEATHS. Total. Males. Females.
1919 1146 7 73 Death rate per 1,000 of the
population:
(a) Crude 19.7
(b) Adjusted by comparability
factor 20.5

CLASSIFICATION OF DEATHS.
The causes of deaths, classified by the Registrar-General,
are as follows:- typhoid and paratyphoid fevers 0, cerebrospinal fever 2,
scarlet fever 0, whooping cough 0, diphtheria 7, tuberculosis of respiratory
system 109, other forms of tuberculosis 13, syphilitic diseases 16,
influenza 18, measles 0, acute poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis 1,
acute infectious encephalitis 1, cancer of (a) buccal cavity 9;
(b) uterus 5; (c) stomach and duodenum 38; (d) breast 16; (e) all other
sites 130; diabetes 4, intracranial vascular lesions 98, heart disease
459, other diseases of circulatory system 56, bronchitis 207, pneumonia 96,
other respiratory diseases 27, ulcer of stomach or duodenum 32.
diarrhoea under 2 years 3, appendicitis 3, other digestive diseases 37,
nephritis 27, puerperal and post-abortive sepsis 1, other maternal
causes 1, premature birth 19, congenital malformations, birth injury
and infantile disease 15, suicide 9, road traffic accidents 21, other
violent causes 339, all other causes 100. Total deaths 1919.
(Note: The headings and rules for classification of deaths have been
revised but the principal classification causes are not greatly
altered.)