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Ratio of local crude death-rate to national crude death-rate,
0.87.
Ratio of local adjusted death-rate to national crude deathrate,
0.97.
The latter ratio means the adjusted death-rate for Walthamstow
during 1934 was 3 per cent. below that for England and Wales.
The Zymotic Disease Death-rate, i.e., the rate per 1,000
population of deaths from the following diseases:—Enteric
Fever, Smallpox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough,
Diphtheria and Diarrhoea, etc., under two years, was 0.29 against
0.24 in 1933.
The Pulmonary Tuberculosis Death-rate was 0.61 per 1,000
population, and the Non-Pulmonary Death-rate was 0.11 per 1,000
population.
The natural increase of population, i.e., excess of births over
deaths, was 322.
The usual comparison of vital statistic rates with those for
the whole country, is shown in the table on the following page:—
Births:—Births are dealt with under the Maternity and Child
Welfare Section of the Report.
Deaths:—The Registrar-General's classification of causes of
death by sex totals is given. These have been sub-divided locally,
as accurately as possible, into age and ward groups.