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The places of the various causes of death differ in Wembley
and in the country as a whole; for example, deaths from
violence in Wembley had the fifth place with the proportionate
figure of 63, while for the country as a whole these deaths had
the sixth place with the proportionate figure of 45. Premature
birth and diseases of early infancy had the sixth place with
the proportionate figure of 58, the corresponding figures for the
country as a whole, in 1937, being twelfth place and 30. Old
age in Wembley had the eleventh place and the proportionate
figure of 21 while for the country as a whole it also had eleventh
place, but the proportionate figure of 33.
These figures are a reflection of the age distribution of the
inhabitants and do not in any way mean, for example, that the
infantile mortality rate is high in Wembley, rather it is the
reverse. The figures really mean that the death rate in Wembley
is small, it being very nearly true to say that it could be
smaller only by a decrease in the infantile mortality rate, while
the infantile mortality rate is almost as low already as it can
be (see page 18), unless, too, there be some new factor to arise
influencing the killing diseases generally.
Tuberculosis of the respiratory system accounted for 39
deaths, while the deaths from non-pulmonary tuberculosis
numbered 10.

In 1938 tuberculosis of the respiratory system was eighth
in the list of killing diseases in Wembley, while in the country
as a whole it was fifth.
Pneumonia was seventh in Wembley and in the country as
a whole it was third, while bronchitis, both in Wembley and in
the country as a whole, had the tenth place.
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