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Crude Death Rate per 1,000 Estimated Population 8.04.
Adjusted Death Rate (Comparability Factor 1.33)= 10.70.
Both the crude and adjusted death rates were slightly lower in
1954, but the picture remains broadly the same with diseases of the
heart and circulatory system claiming one-third of all deaths, and
cancer and diseases of the brain accounting for another third.
ACCIDENTS IN THE HOME
Last year the Committee considered Home Office Circular 106/53
with which was enclosed a report of the Standing Interdepartmental
Committee on Accidents in the Home.
You expressed great interest in this matter and asked me to
report further at a later date. When doing so I made the suggestion
that it might be helpful to affiliate with the Royal Society for the
Prevention of Accidents and you agreed to seek such affiliation.
Following this decision there was prolonged correspondence between
the Town Clerk ;nd various government departments. The Minister
of Housing and Local Government stated that a local authority which
was not a local health authority had no legal power to make such
subscription, although it was open to such authority to make a donation
to a voluntary body working within the area. I thereupon suggested
that the expenditure could be made under Section 179 of the Public
Health Act which gives local authorities power to spend money on
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