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(iv) Deaths from Other Causes.
No. of Deaths
Deaths from Heart Disease 120
Deaths from Cancer 95
Deaths from Vascular Lesions of the
Nervous System 61
Deaths from Circulatory Disease other
than Heart 33
Deaths from Bronchitis 31
Deaths from Pneumonia 21
Deaths from Influenza 11
The following tables I, II, III, IV summarise certain
vital statistics.
Table I shows the figures for live births, still
births, and deaths for the years 1949-1953 inclusive.,
It is noted that the number of births has increased as
compared with the last two years, and that the number of
deaths has decreased as compared with the last four years.
The number of still births is high and shows a figure
twice as high for males as for females.
The figures in Table II are the Registrar General ®s
estimates for successive years since 1924. They give the
population, number of live births, birth rate per l,000
population number of deaths, the death rat© per l,000
population, and also the infant mortality rate per 1,000
live births of Kingstan-up on-Thames, England and Wales.
and the London Area. The trend of the population figure
is to remain at about 40,000.
Table III is largely self-explanatory and compares
certain rates (births, deaths, and notifications of
infectious disease) in England and Wales, 160 large towns,
160 small towns,, London Administrative County, and Kingstonupon-Thames.
Discussion of the number of notifications
of infectious disease received during 1953 Kingstonupon-Thames
appears later in this report in Section F.
The causes of deaths shown in Table IV are now in
accordance with the 36 headings based on the Abbreviated
List of the International Statistical Classification of
Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death. These differ
from the headings used before 1950 and, in order to
provide comparative figures, the causes of death used
for 1949 have been converted as far as possible to the
new classifications.