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POPULATION.
The mid-year estimate of population supplied by the Registrar
General is 50,680, an increase of almost 6,000 over that for the
previous year. This is obviously the result of the return of so many
men and women from the forces, and the likelihood is that there
may be a still further increase so that the population will soon be
as great as it was before the war.
BIRTHS.
The number of live-births registered during the year was 986
which corresponds to a Birth-Rate of 19.4 per 1,000 of population.
This is a very considerable increase over the rate for the previous
year which was 15.9 and is the highest rate recorded in Wood Green
since 1920. The number of still-births was 28, and the Still-Birth
Rate 27.6 per 1,000 births, a considerably higher rate than that for
1945 which was 21.1.
DEATHS.
The number of deaths credited to Wood Green after the necessary
adjustments had been made for inward and outward transfers was
629. This gives a Death Rate of 12.4 per 1,000 of population,
which is an improvement on 13.7 the rate for the previous year. Of
the total of 629 deaths no fewer than 370 or almost 59 per cent,
occurred at ages over 65, and of these 113 were of persons over 80
years and 18 of persons over 90 years of age.
The individual causes of death will be found in Table III in
the appendix. It will be seen there that heart disease was
responsible for 143 deaths, a much large number than that
attributed to any other cause. Other diseases of the circulatory
system caused 22 deaths and inter-cranial vascular lesions 46 deaths,
so that in all, 211 deaths out of 629 were attributed to diseases of
the heart and circulation. The number of deaths due to respiratory
disease, apart from pulmonary tuberculosis was 99. Cancer was
responsible for 101 deaths and tuberculosis for 25 deaths.
Only two deaths occurred from the principal zymotic diseases.
There were no deaths from enteric fever, smallpox, measles, scarletfever,
diphtheria or whooping cough, but two deaths from diarrhoea
in children under 2 years.
The zymotic death rate was 0.04 per 1,000 of population.