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DEATHS.
The number of Deaths registered during the year as belonging
to this District was 439 (211 males and 228 females), as compared with
388 in 1935, and 355 in 1934.
This number excludes deaths which, although occurring within
the District, belonged to other districts, but includes deaths of residents
who died outside the District, and also non-residents dying in the District
who have previously had no permanent place of abode.
The Death Rate for the year was equal to 8.5 per thousand of
population, as compared with 7.9, 7.6, 7.1 and 8.5 in the preceding four
years. A slight modification is, however, necessary if the number is
to be compared with that of England and Wales, the age and sex distribution
not being quite typical of the Country as a whole. The corrected
crude Death Rate for 1936 thus becomes 8.4 per thousand of population.
The Death Rates for England and Wales were 12.1 in 1936, 11.7
in 1935, and 11.8, 12.3 and 12.0 in the preceding three years.
During the first fifteen years of the existence of this Urban District
there was a tendency for the Death Rate to decline, as in the country
as a whole, the average for the three quinquennial periods being 8.5,
7.4 and 7.0. During the five years, 1929-34, there was a slight rise to
an average of 7.4, while in the last three years there has been a steady
increase. In part the most recent increase can be accounted for, as 21
persons died in a local Institution who had had no permanent abode
prior to their admission. Their deaths were thus registered as belonging
to this District. In 1935 there was only one similar case, and in 1934
only six.
Of the 439 Deaths which occurred in Coulsdon and Purley in 1936
54 per cent. were over 65 years of age. This is about the same percentage
as in the last three years, and compares very favourably with the average
of 45 per cent. for the five years 1926-30.
The principal causes of Death, together with the rates per cent,
of total deaths, are shown in the following Table.
For the full list of causes of death, and the ages at which the deaths
occurred, see Table IV in the Appendix.