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The deaths of males were 130 in excess of those of females, and the death-rate
amongst males was approximately 19 per cent, higher than amongst females.
The general death-rate was 12.7 per 1,000 population. The causes of death and
the death-rates for the Borough and its eight Wards, together with other particulars
relating to the mortality amongst the inhabitants during 1927, are contained in
Tables I, III, IV, V and VI (Appendix).
The death-rate was above the mean rate for the year during the first two-and-ahalf
months, and again during the last three months of the year. The rate was
lowest during the month of June, the average being 7.9 per 1,000. The highest point
touched was during the second week of February, when the rate was 32.5 per 1,000
population, diseases of the respiratory organs being largely contributory to this
elevation.
The deaths amongst infants under one year numbered 163, of which 95 were of
males. They amounted to 12.3 per cent, of the deaths from all causes, as compared
with 12.8 for 1926. The mortality amongst infants under one year was at the rate
74 per 1,000 births registered during the year. The infantile mortalities for recent
years were 66 in 1926, 88 in 1925, 87 in 1924, 82 in 1923, 102 in 1922, 114 in 1921 and
91 in 1920. The infantile mortality rate amongst males was 85 as compared with
64 amongst females. The chief causes of death amongst infants under a year were :
Pneumonia, prematurity, atrophy, debility and marasmus, diarrhoea and enteritis
and whooping cough.
In Table IV (Appendix), the causes of death amongst infants under one year are
given, together with the ages in weeks and months and the nett deaths and births
amongst legitimate and illegitimate infants.