View report page

16
found at the 1931 Census. By multiplying the crude death-rate
by this " factor " a more exact comparison of the death-rates
can be made. The Registrar gives the " factor " for Ealing as
1.01, which indicates that the population of the Borough at the
time of the Census was divided into age-groups in an almost identical
manner with the country as a whole. The " standardised " deathrate
(9.6) for the Borough is therefore very little different from
the " crude " death-rate (9.5) and it confirms the fact that the
mortality of residents in Ealing was well below that of the country
as a whole.
The table which follows indicates the causes of the 1,267 deaths
which have been assigned to the Borough. For the purpose
of comparison the causes of the deaths in the previous year have
been added to the table. The two causes accounting for the
greatest number of deaths are again shown to be, first, heart
disease with 317 deaths—almost one quarter of the total deaths—
and second, cancer with 169 deaths. A large increase in
the number of deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis gives that
disease unfortunate prominence in the causes of deaths, the 88
deaths from this disease being the third highest number from an
individual cause. Influenza, the cause of 71 deaths in 1933, was
responsible for only 26 deaths in the year under review.
The numbers of deaths from the infectious diseases are commented
on in a later section of the report, but it will be seen there
is little difference between the two years, with the exception of
tuberculosis, already mentioned, and measles, from which seven
deaths occurred in contrast to none in the previous year. This
is accounted for by the biennial occurrence of widespread infection
from this disease, 1934 being a year in which a large number of
cases occurred.