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Registrar-General has now estimated the population in the middle
of 1930 at 111,800, which gives an amended birth-rate for that
year of 14.6 per 1,000 of population.
This makes the birth-rate for 1931 just a little more, 0.4,
than that for 1930 and 0.3 more than that for 1929.
Death-Rate.—The death-rate for the year is 10.1 per thousand
of the population. As with the birth-rate, the death-rate for the
year 1930 was calculated on an under-estimated population and
was represented as 11.0 in the Annual Report for 1930, but on the
amended estimated population the death-rate is found to be 10.2,
which makes it just 0.1 more than the death-rate for 1931. In
Table I it will be seen that while the death-rate for Ealing in 1931
was 10.1, that for England and Wales was 12.3 and that for London
12.4.
Infant Death-Rate.—The infant death-rate for Ealing is
still maintained at a low level. It is 47 per thousand births for
1931. This is a little higher than that for 1930 but lower
than that for 1929. It is lower than the average for the previous
five years which is 49. The rate however is distinctly lower
than those for England and Wales, for the Great Towns, and for
London, which are respectively 66, 71 and 65, as indicated in
Table I. In Table II a very instructive indication of the steady
decline in the infant death-rate is given by comparing the rates
for successive five-year periods since 1911, the average rates for
these periods being 76, 62, 55 and 49.
Table III gives the deaths of infants from the various causes.
It will be noted that the greatest number of deaths from any
separate cause is from premature birth, 19, and that 17 of these
occurred within the first week and 18 within four weeks after
birth. Atrophy, debility and marasmus come next with eleven
deaths, eight of which occurred within a week and ten within
four weeks after birth. Thus, of the total 84 infant deaths at
least 30 resulted from conditions operating previous to the birth
of the child, in all probability ill-health or disturbance of function
in the mother arising from varied causes. Pneumonia and bronchitis,
essentially preventable diseases, accounted for 13 deaths,