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MORTALITY
General Mortality and Death Rate
The nett number of deaths accredited to the district was 984,
63 more than in 1961. This gives a crude death rate of 13.8 per
1,000 of the population and a corrected death rate of 11.6 (the
rate for 1961 being 10.8).
The greatest single cause of this increase was a rise of 20 in the
deaths from Coronary Disease and Angina, and of 15 in the deaths
of cancer of the lung. There was also a rise of 4 in the deaths
from bronchitis.
The heavy toll of life from these two group causes could be
considerably reduced, but its reduction involves the most difficult of
all remedies—the changing of habits that are set and built in to the
way of life.
Contributory factors in coronary disease are undoubtedly the
stress and rush of present-day living. A three-mile walk daily
would be an excellent prescription coupled with sensible and
moderate eating to prevent increase of weight. It is surely an
obvious assumption that the heart can do its job more efficiently
without an added load of a stone or more imposed upon it just
when it is beginning to age.