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The Registrar General has supplied a factor in order to make
the crude death rate comparable from a mortality point of view with
the crude death rate of the country as a whole or with the mortality
of any other local area the crude death rate of which should be
similarly modified with its own factor for the purpose.
This figure for correcting the death rate has been provided as
it is found that the age and sex constitution of the borough differs
slightly from the general population of the country. On applying
this Areal Comparability Factor (0.96), the adjusted death rate of the
borough is 12.0 per 1,000 population.
The principal causes of death in their order of severity were:
Heart Disease, 189 ; Cancer, 99 ; Pneumonia (all forms), 55 ; and
Tuberculosis (all forms), 35.
It is noteworthy that 59 per cent, of all deaths occurred in
persons over 65 years of age.
The average yearly death rate of the borough during the previous
five years was 11.3 per 1,000 population, so that the death rate for
1937 is seen to be slightly above this average.
Comparing this table with the corresponding table of the
preceding year, the following facts are noteworthy: There has
been, an increase in the number of deaths from Heart Disease,
Cancer and Pneumonia, while the deaths from Tuberculosis have
decreased.