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POPULATION.
The estimate of population supplied by the Registrar-General
is again lower than that for the previous year, and very appreciably
lower than that for pre-war years. So many men and women have
left the district to join the Forces and so many others have been
evacuated for the period of the war that it is difficult to arrive at
a very accurate estimate of the actual population. The estimate
suppied may, however, be regarded as reasonably accurate.
BIRTHS.
The number of live births registered during the year was 824,
which gives a Birth Rate of 18.7 per 1,000 of population. This is
appreciably higher than the rate for the previous year, which was
16.8, and is the highest recorded in Wood Green since 1920'. There
were 19 still-births, giving a Still-Birth Rate of 22.5 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 564. This gives a Death Rate of 12.8, which is slightly higher
than that for the previous year, 12.3. The individual causes of
death are shown in Table III. in the Appendix.. It will be seen
that, as in former years, the principal cause of death was heart
disease, which was responsible for 141 deaths. Other diseases of
the circulatory system caused death in 22 cases, and intra-cranial
vascular lesions in 62 cases, so that out of a total of 564 deaths, no
fewer than 225 were attributed to diseases of the heart and circulation.
Diseases of the respiratory system, excluding pulmonary
tuberculosis, were responsible for 71 deaths, and deaths due to
tuberculosis numbered 24. The number of deaths certified as due
to cancer was 95.
Only 4 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 3 from diarrhoea.
The zymotic death rate was 0.09 per 1,000 of population.