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BIRTHS.
Table 7 gives particulars of the births registered and notified
in the district, and the births belonging to the district which have
occurred and been registered outside the district.
The total number of births are those registered during the
calendar year and are corrected for inward and outward transfers.
This figure is obtained at the end of the year from the Registrar
General, and is simply the total for the district. It does not allocate
'the births to the wards, and from this total it is not possible to
make a ward allocation.
Last year the total number was 970 ; 483 males and 487
females, and the figure is equal to a birth-rate of 13.8 per 1,000
inhabitants. In addition 43 still births were returned as belonging
to the district.
The ward allocation is made from the notifications which are
received under the "Notification of Births Act. The number ol
notifications does not exactly correspond always with the number
df registrations. The births have to be notified within 36 hours,
whilst a delay of 6 weeks may occur in the registration of a birth.
There is not much difference in the number notified and registered
in the district in the year as the births which occur towards the end
df the year and are not registered until the following year are equalised-by
the'births which have occurred towards the end of another
year and have .not been registered in the same year under similar
conditions.
In 1931 the births numbered 1,019 corresponding to a birthrate
of 14.4. This fall in the birth-rate was discussed at length in
the Annual "Report 'for last year.
DEATHS.
483 deaths were registered in the district; and 303 deaths
of residents occurred outside the district. The total number of
deaths belonging to the district is 786, which corresponds to a
death-rate of 11.1 per 1,000 inhabitants.
The table giving the causes of death, age distribution, etc.,
k given on.a later page.
Causes of Death.
The number of deaths from Cancer are again on the increase
101 deaths occurring compared with 91 last year.