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POPULATION.
The estimate of population supplied by the Registrar-General
is slightly lower than that for the previous year, and very much
lower than that for the years just preceding the war. With the
large number of men and women who have left the district to join
the forces, and with the number who have evacuated for the period
of the war, it is very difficult to arrive at a very accurate estimate
of what the actual population is, but the estimate supplied is not
likely to be very far from the truth.
BIRTHS.
The number of live births registered during the year was 756,
which gives a Birth Rate of 16.8 per 1,000. This compares favourably
with 704 and 15.7 the corresponding figures for the previous
year, and the Birth Rate is the highest recorded in Wood Green
since 1923. There were 15 still-births giving a Still-Birth Rate
of 19.4. per 1,000 births.
DEATHS.
The number of deaths credited to Wood Green, after the
necessary adjustments have been made for inward and outward
transfers was 553. This gives a Death Rate of 12.3, which is very
slightly lower than that for the previous year, which was 12.7.
The individual causes of death are shown in Table III in the
Appendix, and it will be seen that the principal cause of death was
again heart disease, which was responsible for 129 deaths. Other
diseases of the circulatory system were the cause of death in 25
cases, and intracranial vascular lesions in 52 cases, so that 206
deaths out of a total of 553 were attributed to diseases of the heart
and circulation. Respiratory diseases, excluding pulmonary tuberculosis,
were responsible for 79 deaths, while deaths due to tuberculosis
numbered 25, as compared with 34 for the previous year.
Cancer was responsible for 97 deaths.
Only 3 deaths occurred from the principal zymotic diseases—
enteric fever, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping
cough and diarrhoea (in children under 2 years)—1 death from whooping
cough and 2 from diarrhoea.
The zymotic death rate was 0.06 per 1,000 of population.