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DEATHS.
The number of Deaths registered during the year as belonging to
this District was 434, (222 males and 212 females), as compared with
458 in 1937.
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 crude Death Rate for the year was equal to 7.9 per thousand of
population, as compared with 8.5 last year, and 8.5, 7.9, 7.6 and 7.1 in
the preceding four years. A slight modification, however, is 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 Death Rate for 1938 thus becomes 7.7 per thousand of
population.
The crude Death Rates in England and Wales were 11.6 in 1938,
12.4 in 1937, 12.1 in 1936, and 11.7 in 1935.
During the first fifteen years of the existence of this Urban Disrtict
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, followed in the next three years by a steady increase,
but this year the rate has declined to 7.9.
Of the 434 deaths which occurred in Coulsdon and Purley in 1938,
48 per cent. were over 65 years of age, compared with the average of
53 per cent. for the last five years and 45 per cent. for the five years
1926-30.

For the full list of causes of deaths, and the ages at which the deaths
occurred, see Table IV in the Appendix.
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