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VITAL STATISTICS
Total Deaths, 641. (Males, 327: Females, 314.)
Crude Death Rate, 12.12.
For extracts from vital statistics and causes of death, see Appendix, Tables I and II.
Deaths and Death Rate
The death rate, i.e. the number of deaths per 1,000 total population, rose in 1959.
Below is shown the comparative figures for the past seven years.
Year Death Rate
1953 13.31
1954 12.16
1955 11.92
1956 12.25
1957 13.02
1958 12.04
1959 12.12
The principal causes of death were again heart disease, diseases of the circulatory system
and cancer. The number of deaths from heart disease and the number of deaths from
circulatory diseases including coronary diseases did not vary much from the previous year's
figures, but it is noteworthy that when the coronary disease figures are considered on their
own there is a considerable increase. Deaths from cancer fell from 139 in 1958 to 115 in
1959. The number of lung cancer deaths was 36 in 1959 as compared with 38 in 1958.
There were no deaths from whooping cough, diphtheria or poliomyelitis. A fall occurred
in the number of deaths from tuberculosis from 5 in 1958 to 2 in 1959. This is the lowest
level yet reached. Twelve people died from influenza.
The number of outside deaths, i.e. of Southall residents who died in Hillingdon
Hospital, other Middlesex hospitals and hospitals outside the County boundaries, including
various London hospitals, was 253 (males 150 and females 103).
Deaths of institution inmates (including patients from Southall addresses and from
outside areas) number as follows: St. Bernard's Hospital, 156 (males 58 and females 98);
Mount Pleasant Hospital, 8 (2 male and 6 female); Southall-Norwood Hospital, 12 (6 male
and 6 female); Vine Cottage, 5 (1 male and 4 female); in addition 3 deaths (2 male and 1
female) occured of persons belonging to other districts and residing temporarily in Southall.
In 1959, five people died as the result of motor vehicle accidents, as compared with 3
in 1958. It is regrettable that there has not been a year free from motor vehicle accident
deaths since 1954. The total number of deaths from violent causes was recorded as 30 in
1959 as compared with 22 in 1958. However, of those deaths registered in 1959, five occurred
as the result of an accident in 1958 when an aeroplane crashed on houses in Southall causing
loss of life and injury—although the incident was in 1958, returns of registrations were not
available during that year, and the numbers have to be included in the 1959 total—which
is thereby slightly falsified.
To make an approximate allowance for the way in which the sex and age distribution
of the local population differs from that of England and Wales as a whole, the crude death
rate is multiplied by a comparability factor supplied by the Registrar-General. This, then,
gives a comparative death rate of 11 -39, compared with the rate for England and Wales as a
whole, which was 11 -6—the Southall rate is still a little below that of the nation as a whole.
For distribution of deaths in the various wards, see Appendix, Table III.
Births and Birth Rate. (Figures for 1958 are given in brackets.)
The total number of registered births in the district (as notified under the Births and
Deaths Registration Act) was 171 (168). The total number of live births belonging to the
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