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DEATHS.
The number of deaths belonging to Wood Green, after making
the necessary adjustments for inward and outward transfers was
593, 285 male and 308 female. This gives a death-rate of 11.1
per thousand of population, which is very slightly higher than that
of the previous year, 10.9. The death-rate for the whole country
for 1937 was 12.4 and that for the 125 great towns 12.5.
Of the total deaths 341 or 57.5 of all the deaths occurred in
persons over 65 years of age. The corresponding percentage in
1936 was 50.
The distribution of deaths over the year was as follows:—
First quarter 181; second 148; third 126; and fourth 138.
The distribution of deaths according to Wards was:—
Alexandra-Bowes 182
Town Hall 203
Noel Park 208
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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 to age at death.
The former table is supplied by the Registrar-General, while the
latter is compiled in the Health Department, and this fact accounts
for the discrepancies which are to be detected in the numbers
attached to the individual causes of death. It will be seen from
Table III that the commonest cause of death, as in previous years,
was heart disease which was responsible for no less than 183 deaths,
or not very far short of one third of all the deaths.
This does not necessarily mean that heart disease is as common
and as fatal a condition in Wood Green as these figures would seem
to suggest. Not less than two-thirds of these deaths certified as