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3.
Division Local Government Electors. Population.
North 4702 9500
Central 4135 7500
South 3900 8200
Friern Hospital 2900
12737 28100
The registrar Generals estimate of population is 27120.
BIRTHS.
The numbered registered in the district was 148, and the
number assigned to the district by the Registrar General 362, and this
gives a birth-rate of 14.9. 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 9 , giving the rate
of 24.8 per 1000 births, compared with 48.6 for 1937, and 33.0 for 1936.
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 199,
giving a crude death-rate of 7.34. The nett deaths numbered 212, giving
a rate (including institutional population) of 7.81. Since the
preparation of the death-table, the Registrar General has assigned 211
deaths to the district, and this will give the uncorrected death-rate of
8.71 per 1000. The correcting factor for age and sex distribution is
0.98, and this gives a corrected death-rate for comparative purposes
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of 8.5 per 1000.
The infantile mortality rate has increased, being 55.0 per
1000 births, compared with 27.0 for 1937.
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 age of 45. There was only 1 death from
Infantile Diarrhoea during the year.
The deaths from Pulmonary Tuberculosis are reduced. It is
interesting to compare the death-rates each year for the past ten
years from this cause.
1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938
0.41 0.21 0.47 0.39 0.57 0.61 0.54 0.53 0.45 0.17