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COMMENTS ON STATISTICS
Population
The Registrar General's mid-year estimate of the population for
1963 is 41,000, which is an increase of 110 over the previous year.
This is normal and is the result of natural increase in population.
The number of persons per house has increased very slightly from
3.15 to 3.17.
Births
The number of live births has increased by 20 as compared with
1962, this being an increase of approximately 3.6 per cent on the year.
In consequence of this the birth rate has increased by 0.6 per thousand
births. The birth rate of 1963 is the highest for a considerable
number of years. The figure for 1962 was the highest since 1958.
This figure is considerably below that for England and Wales. There
were 30 illegitimate births during the year, which is an increase of 10
over the previous year, and there were no illegitimate still births.
This figure is considerably over the average for 10 years of illegitimate
births which is 20. However, this figure varies very considerably,
the highest in the period on which the average was calculated
being 35 and the lowest 9.
Mortality
The death rate is approximately the same as for 1962, being 10.8
as against 10.9 in 1962. This figure is very close to the average for
the past 10 years, which is 10.6.
The deaths of infants under one year per thousand live births is
21.8. In 1962 it was 27, 1961 it was 22.4, 1960 it was 20.6. The
average for the past ten years being 24.4. Owing to the large variation
year by year comparison with previous years has little meaning.
However, the figure for the past year is lower than the average for
10 years by 2.6.
The number of deaths from Cancer during 1963 was the same as
that for 1962, being 78, while the average over the past 10 years was
79. The number of deaths from Lung Cancer in 1963 was 21, and
the average over the last 8 years was 19.4.
There were no deaths from tuberculosis during the year. There
was one death from leukaemia in 1963, which is considerably less
than in 1962. when there were 4. Over the past 12 years there have
been 31 deaths from leukaemia of which 17 were in the last 4 years.
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