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The factor for adjusting the death rate for the District,
given by the Registrar-General last year, is 0-92. This factor
makes the Adjusted Death Rate 11.7 per 1,000, compared with
a rate of 11.8 per 1,000 for 1934.
Of the 333 deaths during the year, 180, or 54-0 per cent.,
were of persons over 65 years of age. Seventy-eight were of
persons between the ages of 75 and 85 years, and 30 were of
persons over 85 years of age.
Misadventure and accidents accounted for 12 deaths,
compared with 18 the previous year, and 11 in 1933.
Maternal Mortality.
Two women died in consequence of childbirth. The
certified causes of death were as follows :—
1. Mrs. I.W.G., 24 years.
1 (a) Ante-partum haemorrhage.
(b) Placenta praevia.
2. Mrs. A.W.K., 30 years.
1 (a) Haemorrhage.
(b) Placenta praevia.
(c) Childbirth.
Neither of these women attended the Ante-natal Clinic.