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11
DEATHS.
The deaths registered in the District during the year were 448,
of which 203 were males and 245 females, giving a crude death-rate
of 6.00. To these must be added 314 deaths of Enfield residents
registered outside the District, and from this total must be subtracted
42 deaths of non-residents, occurring in the District, which
brings the number of deaths to 720 for the year, giving a net deathrate
of 9.64 per 1,000 population.
The corresponding figures for Enfield for the five previous
years are 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933
Net death-rate 10.56 9.63 10.40 10.64 9.83
Seventy-five deaths registered in the District were persons
over 80 years of age, 21 being males and 54 females, one man dying
at the age of 97.
The more important causes of deaths registered were:—
Malignant Disease, 103; Bronchitis, 36; Heart Disease, 176; Old
Age, 13; Tuberculosis of Respiratory System, 52; Pneumonia, 52;
Other Respiratory Diseases, 11; other Circulatory Diseases, 44;
Nephritis, 10; Cerebral Haemorrhage, 29; Deaths from Violence
(excluding suicides), 27; Influenza, 5; whilst among the children,
Premature Births accounted for 14; Inanition and Marasmus, 7;
Congenital Malformations, 4; Pneumonia, 8; and Injury at
Birth, 4.
. It is to be noted that of the 720 deaths that occurred during
the year, 314 took place outside the District of Enfield; most of
these were Enfield residents who died at the North Middlesex
County Hospital, Edmonton.
In past years the weekly death returns that I have received
have been those of persons dying in Enfield, including those, who,
although they died in the District, are residents elsewhere and must
be transferred to their respective Districts.
It will be realised, however, that during the year a large number
of Enfield residents die in the North Middlesex Hospital. These
deaths have been notified to me at the end of each quarter by the
County Authority.
Through the courtesy of Doctor Harding, the Medical Officer
of Health for Edmonton, arrangements have been made whereby I
have been supplied by Doctor Harding each week with the names,
addresses, ages and causes of deaths of Enfield residents dying in the
North Middlesex Hospital. This information has been of value,
and is much appreciated.
The following table shows the causes of death at all ages during
the year, and Table II gives an analysis of the causes of death in
infants under one year of age.