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MORTALITY
General Mortality and Death Rate.
The net number of deaths accredited to the district was 581,
43 more than in 1961. This gives a crude death rate of 12.2 per
1,000 of the population and a corrected death rate of 13.1 (the
rate for 1961 being 10.6).
The greatest single cause of this increase was a rise of 35
in the deaths from Coronary Disease and Angina. There was a small
but welcome drop in the deaths of cancer of the lung from 36 to
31 but deaths from bronchitis in males have risen from 18 to 28.
The heavy toll of life from these two group causes could be
considerably reduced, but its reduction involves the most difficult
of all remedies - the changing of habits that are set and built
in to the way of life.
Contributory factors in Coronary Disease are undoubtedly the
stress and rush of present day living. A three-mile walk daily
would be an excellent prescription coupled with sensible and
moderate eating to prevent increase of weight. It is surely an
obvious assumption that the heart can do its job more efficiently
without an added load of a stone or more imposed upon it just
when it is beginning to age.
The following table shows the deaths from cancer of the lung
and bronchus and deaths from bronchitis for Wood Green, over the
past 10 years.