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6
DEATHS.
The number of deaths belonging to Wood Green, after making
the necessary adjustments for inward and outward transfers, was
5-62, 269 male and 293 female. This number is only two less than
the number of births registered. It represents a death-rate of
10.5 per 1,000 of population, which is very slightly higher than
that for the previous year, which was 10.4. It compares favourably
with that O'f the country as a whole, and that of the 121 great towns,
which in each case was 11.8.
Of the total deaths, 276, or 49 per cent., occurred in persons
over 65 years of age. The corresponding percentage for 1933 was
52.
The distribution of deaths over the year was as follows:—
First quarter, 185; second, 146; third, 91; and fourth, 140, the
heaviest mortality being as usual in the first quarter of the year
and the lowest in the third.
The distribution of deaths according to Wards was:—
Alexandra-Bowes 158
Town Hall 223
Noel Park 181
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Table III in the Appendix gives the causes of all deaths
occurring in Wood Green during the year, and Table IV shows their
distribution both according to cause of death and age at death.
The former table is supplied by the Registrar-General while the
latter has been compiled in the Health Department. It will be seen
from Table III that, as in previous years, heart disease is the
commonest cause of death, being responsible for no fewer than 179
deaths, or almost one-third of all the deaths. Of these deaths from
heart, disease, more than half occurred in persons over 65 years of
age. Cancer came second as a cause of death with 97 deaths, and
was followed by pneumonia with 40 deaths, tuberculosis with 35
deaths, and "other circulatory diseases" with 35 deaths. Only 5
deaths were attributed to influenza as compared with 21 in 1933.