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Death Rate.
Total deaths in the district 678
Outward transfers 61
Inward transfers 459
Deaths of residents 1,076
Of the 61 deaths of non-residents occurring in the district,
13 took place at the Orthopaedic Hospital, 7 at the Harrow and
Wealdstone Hospital, and 31 in various local nursing and maternity
homes.
Of the 459 deaths of local residents which occurred outside this
area most occurred in institutions, 155 taking place at Redhill
Hospital and 69 at other county hospitals. 110 deaths occurred
at various general hospitals in and about London. Six deaths
took place in London maternity institutions, 5 at mental hospitals,
4 at isolation hospitals, and 20 at institutions for the treatment
of tuberculosis. Twenty deaths occurred in different nursing
homes.
1,076 deaths in the population of 132,049 represents a death
rate per 1,000 population of 8.1, compared with 11.8 for England
and Wales. This low rate must not be entirely construed as an
indication of an extraordinary healthiness of the district, being
due partly to the unusual age distribution of the population, a
feature found in rapidly growing areas, in which the growth of
population is largely determined by an influx of a section of
population, who, because of their ages, possess a low death rate.

It will be noticed in general, that for ages below 45 the percentage
distribution in the column of local deaths is higher than
the corresponding figures for the country as a whole, whereas for
ages above 45 the reverse holds. If the local over-45 figures are
raised to the general figure, the discrepancy between the two sets
of figures for the under-45's is still more marked. That is to say,
assuming the local over-45's to be dying at the rate the corresponding
age groups do in the country, the under-45's show an appreciably
higher rate, a fact which must be attributed to there being a
relatively greater proportion of population at these age groups.