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POPULATION.
I estimate the population to the middle of the year as 28200,
made up as follows.-
Division. Local Government Electors. Population.
North 4624 9330
Central 4017 7290
South 4134 8680
Friern Hospital 2900
12775 28200
The Registrar Generals estimate of population is 26775.
BIRTHS.
The number registered in the district was 175, and the number
assigned to the district by the Registrar General 329, and this gives a
birth-rate of 12.4. The Infantile Mortality rate is calculated on the
number of births assigned to the district by the Registrar General. The
still-births during the year numbered 16, giving the rate of 48.6 per
1000 births, compared with 33.0 for 1936, and 40.0 for 1935.
DEATHS.
Table 2 shows in detail the registered causes of death in
alphabetical order, their distribution in wards, and particulars of the
inward and outward transfers.
The number of deaths registered in the district was 235, giving
a crude death-rate of 8.90. The nett deaths numbered 254, giving a rate
(including institutional population) of 9.28. Since the preparation of
the death-table, the Registrar General has assigned 247 deaths to the
district, and this will give the uncorrected death-rate of 10.41 per 1000.
the correcting factor for ago and sex distribution is 0.98, and this gives
a corrected death-rate for comparative purposes of 10.2 per 1000.
The infantile mortality rate has decreased, being 27.0 per 1000
births, compared with 51.0 for 1936, and is the lowest yet recorded.
Affections of the Heart and Circulatory system continue to be
the principal cause of death. Cancer was again the cause of many deaths
in persons over the ago of 45. There were no deaths from Infantile
Diarrhoea during the year.
the deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis are the same as for the
two previous years. It is interesting to compare the doath-rates each
year for the past ten years from this cause.
1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937
0.47 0.41 0.21 0.47 0.39. 0.57 0.61 0.54 0.53 0.45