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By multiplying the death-rate for Ealing by the " comparability
factor" supplied by the Registrar-General, the death-rate
for the Borough can be made comparable with that of other
districts. The "factor" for Ealing is 1.01, which makes the
" comparable death-rate " 9.7 per thousand of population.
The causes of the 1,502 deaths are indicated in the table on
page 12. It will be seen that heart disease and cancer, with
374 and 218 deaths respectively, are the main causes of death.
Tuberculosis, pneumonia, bronchitis and influenza accounted for
the next highest numbers of deaths. There is very little difference
in the causes of death in the last two years, with the exception of
a sharp increase in the mortality from influenza, the deaths having
increased from 29 to 63. The influenza death-rate of 0.40 per
thousand of population is, however, less than that of 0.45 recorded
for England and Wales. The deaths from infectious disease are
dealt with in Section F of this report.
Infant Deaths.—The infant death-rate of 46 per thousand
births is the third lowest recorded in the Borough, the lowest
infant death-rate being that of 38 per thousand births recorded
in 1934. The actual ntimber of deaths, 106, is higher than in any
previous year, this being due, of course, to the greatly increased
number of births.
The infant death rate for the Borough, 46, compares very
favourably indeed with the rates for England and Wales, for the
125 Great Towns and for London, which are respectively 58, 62
and 60. The causes of infant deaths, shown in the following tables,
indicate prematurity as the main cause of death, 31 of the 105
infant deaths, and congenital malformations and pneumonia as
the next main causes with 15 and 12 deaths respectively. It will
be seen that 59 of the deaths occurred before the infant was one
week old, while 70 occurred before the infant was four weeks old.
This latter figure gives a neo-natal death-rate of 30 per thousand
live births.