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POPULATION.
The estimate of population supplied by the Registrar-General
is higher by 970 than for the previous year, but is still very much
lower than for the years just before the war. The low figure is
most likely due to the fact that a large number of men and women
have left the district on joining the forces, and at the same time
there has been no influx of people into the Borough. There is no
definite evidence of an appreciable permanent fall in the population.
BIRTHS.
The number of live births registered during the year was 704,
which gives a Birth Rate of 15.7 per 1,000. This is a very great
improvement on the number of births in 1941 which was 523, with
a Birth Rate of 11.9.
DEATHS.
The number of deaths credited to Wood Green, after making
the neeessary adjustments for inward and outward transfers was
573. This gives a Death Rate of 12.7, which is an improvement
on that for the previous year which was 13.4, and a very great
improvement on that for 1940, which was 15.9. The causes of
death are shown in Table III in the Appendix, and it will be seen
that the principal cause of death was heart disease which was
responsible for 156 deaths. Other diseases of the circulatory
system were credited with 29 deaths, and intracranial vascular
lesions with 51 deaths, so that no fewer than 236 deaths out of a
total of 573 were attributed to diseases of the heart and circulation.
Respiratory diseases, excluding pulmonary tuberculosis, were
credited with 70 deaths, while deaths due to tuberculosis numbered
34. Cancer was responsible for 94 deaths, a slight increase on
88, the number for 1941.
Only 4 deaths occurred from the principal zymotic diseasesenteric
fever, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping
cough and diarrhoea (in children under 2 years)—namely, 1 death
from whooping cough, and 3 from diarrhoea.
The zymotic death rate was 0.07 per 1,000 of population.