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The comparability factor (see page 9 of 1934 Report)
for Walthamstow for 1935 is 1.11 which, applied to the crude
death rate of 9.2 for 1935, yields an adjusted death rate of
10.2 as against the rate of 11.7 for England and Wales.
Ratio of local crude death-rate to national crude deathrate,
0.78.
Ratio of local adjusted death-rate to national crude
death-rate, 0.87.
The latter ratio means the adjusted death-rate for
Walthamstow during 1935 was nearly 13 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 Diarrhœa, etc., under two years, was 0.13
against 0.29 in 1934.
The Pulmonary Tuberculosis death-rate was 0.51 per
1,000 population, and the Non-Pulmonary death-rate was
0.044 per 1,000 population.
The natural increase of population, i.e., excess of births
over deaths, was 434.
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.
The total number of deaths in 1935 (1,236) compares with
1,393 during 1934, the respective death-rates per 1,000 population
being 9.2 and 10.3.