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As each year about one-sixth of these deaths are attributable to
Cancer of the breast, the necessity for the investigation of any lump
in the breasts of women, especially over 30 years of age, which does
not subside in a very short time, must be repeated.
In all cases, not only is there danger in delay, but much ill health
frequently results from the mental agony caused by postponing examination.
The reassurance of a negative finding is almost as important
as an early positive result.
VIOLENCE.
Deaths from Violence, including Suicide, increased considerably
during 1937, the Death Rate of 0.61 per thousand population being the
highest recorded in the Urban District since its formation, while this
is the third time in the last five years in which the local rate has exceeded
the National Rate, which was 0.54 in 1937.
The average for the last fifteen years, however, was 0.37 locally
and 0.51 nationally.
In 1937 there were 25 deaths from Violence other than Suicide,
this being 10 more than occurred in 1934, which previously held the
record for deaths from this cause since the formation of the District.
The increase was chiefly due to road accidents. Of the 25 deaths, 14
were from this cause (9 more than in 1936), of which 8 were pedestrians,
including 2 toddlers, 3 motorists, 2 cyclists and 1 motor cyclist. Three
deaths were from aeroplane accidents, 2 were due to falls in elderly
people, and 2 from drowning.
Deaths from Suicide increased in number, there being 8 as compared
with 3, 9, 6 and 3 in the preceding four years. The Death Rate from
this cause was thus 15 per 100,000 of population as compared with
6 last year and averages of 11 and 12 in the preceding two decades.
Five of the deaths were in males, 3 being from bullet wounds, 1 from
burning and 1 from coal gas poisoning, the latter also being the cause
of death in 2 females, strangulation being resorted to in the remaining
case. With the exception of two, the deaths from Suicide occurred
between the ages of 40 and 60 years.
TUBERCULOSIS AND PNEUMONIA.
Deaths from Tuberculosis and Pneumonia are referred to in other
sections of this Report.
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