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The same difficulty occurred last year; the RegistrarGeneral's
total is 750; ours is 748.
396 deaths were registered in the district; of these 26 did
not belong to Acton and were transferred to other districts, 378
deaths of Acton residents occurred outside the area and have been
included in our returns.
The total number of deaths belonging to the district according
to these returns is 748; this number corresponds to a death-rate
of 10.8 per 1,000 inhabitants.
The death-rate for England & Wales was 12.4 per 1,000,
for the 125 County Boroughs and Great Towns, 12.5, and for the
Administrative county of London 12.3.
In previous reports it has been explained that the RegistrarGeneral
issues a figure for adjusting the local death-rate to make it
comparable with other districts. This figure is called the comparability
factor, and is based upon the age distribution and sex
incidence of the district at the Census of 1931. The comparability
factor for Acton is 1.08, and when the death-rate is multiplied by
this factor, the standardised death-rate is obtained. The standard
death -rate of Acton is therefore 11.6.
The number of deaths is 46 less than in 1936 and the deathrate
0.7 per 1,000 inhabitants lower.
There has been a decrease in the number of deaths at all
ages except in the age-periods 1—2 years and 5—15 years. In the
latter age-period there was an increase of 4, mostly accounted for
by the 3 deaths from Diphtheria.
Although there was a decrease in the number of deaths over
65 years of age, the percentage of deaths at this age was slightly
higher than in 1936.
401 or over 53 per cent. of the deaths occurred in hospitals;
an addition 21 died in nursing homes.
32 inquests were held, and 28 deaths were certified by the
Coroner after a post-mortem examination without an inquest.