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(All rates are per 1,000 of estimated residential population.)
Comparability factor 1.11
Adjusted death rate 11.3
Ratio of local to national crude death rate 0.87
Percentage reduction of adjusted death rate below that for
England and Wales 2.5
Zymotic disease death rate 0.12
Pulmonary Tuberculosis death rate 0.55
Non-pulmonary Tuberculosis death rate 0.09
The natural increase of population, i.e., excess of births over
deaths, was 277.
The usual comparison of vital statistics 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.
The total number of deaths in 1938 (1,340) compares with
1,443 during 1937, the respective death-rates per 1,000 population
being 10.2 and 11.3.