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DEATHS.
The total number of deaths of Wembley residents
during 1936 was 770, while the estimated population was
107,550. The corresponding' figure for the previous year
was 678, with an estimated population of 99,120.
The deaths comprised 369 males and 401 females.
These figures represent a crude death rate of 7.16 per
1,000 population, an increase of .32 on the figure last year,
whilst the figures for England and Wales also show an
increase from 11.7 in 1935 to 12.1 in 1936.
The adjusted death rate for Wembley, using the Areal
Comparability Factor of the Registrar-General, is 9.02 compared
with 8.62 in 1935.
The low death rate for the district may be commented
upon as follows : The crude death rate in Wembley has been
consistently low, probably for two reasons:—
(a) the inherently low mortality due to relative healthiness
and absence of black industrial conditions;
and
(b) the exceptional young adult age distribution of
the population.
The crude mortality rate will probably rise in due course
as the population stabilises itself. One would expect that
the crude death rate will always be less than that of England
and Wales as a whole, but that there will be a gradual
convergence towards the general death rate for the country.
Meantime, the crude death rate is about 60 per cent.
that of England and Wales. Because of the general ageing
of the population, the general death rate for the country is
bound to rise, and the Wembley death rate, no doubt, will
also rise with it.
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