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can be considered, a detailed analysis of the causes is needed.
Apart from evidence submitted to the Select Committee in Motor
Traffic 15 years ago no detailed analysis is available. We do not
know how many of those who lost their lives were drivers or
passengers, and how many pedestrians.
Our figures, of course, are too small to be of value for
the purposes above mentioned, but they may be interesting.
8 deaths belonging to the district were caused by
mechanically propelled vehicles; 2 of them occurred in the
district and six outside. The two which occurred in the district
were both pedestrians—one was a woman of 63 years of age, and
the other a man of 81 years. The former was knocked down by
a motor van, and the latter by a passenger car.
Of the six residents who were killed outside, 3 were
pedestrians, and 3 were either drivers or passengers. The 3
pedestrians were men of 96 years and 59 years respectively and a
boy of 8 years. The two men were knocked down by passenger
cars and the boy was run over by a lorry.
The three drivers or passengers were on motor cycles.
One, a man of 21 years was killed in a collision between his cycle
and a taxi-cab, the second a man of 38 years was crushed between
his cycle and a motor car, and third a woman of 20 years was
thrown off a motor cycle and run over by a charabanc.
There were also 6 deaths of non-residents in the district,
of these 5 were pedestrians; 2 of these were run over by motor
lorries, one, a boy of 2¼ years was run over by a passenger car,
one, a man of 70 years was knocked down by a tram car, and
one was knocked down by a railway train. The driver who was
killed was a man thrown off his motor cycle.
The acre distribution, and ward distribution are sriven in
Table III.
The death-rate in each ward was as follows:—
North-East. North-West. Sot(th-East. South-West.
10.38 10.11 10.39 12.34
Deaths in Public Institutions.
292 deaths or 41 per cent of the total occurred in public J
institutions. In addition 11 deaths occurred in nursing homes.
INFANTILE MORTALITY.
62 deaths occurred in children under one year of age.
This number corresponds to an infantile mortality of 60 per 1,000
births.
The infantile mortality is higher than that of 1926, but
lower than the infantile mortality of the whole of England and
Wales, which was 69 per 1,000 births.