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Deaths and Death Rate
There was again a slight fall in the death rate the figure of 10 43 comparing
with one of 10 53 for the previous year. The lowest death rate ever
recorded in the Borough was 10 16 in 1953,
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. In 1960, this factor was 1.0 and so the corrected death
rate was the same as the crude death rate i.e. 10.43.
The corrected rate for Middlesex County was 11.1,, and the rate for England
and Wales was 11 5, so the figure for Brentford and Chiswick was well below both
the County and the National rates
Table I gives a list of Causes of Death as classified according to the
International system agreed by the World Health Organisation and in operation
since November, 1949,

Coronary disease was the highest individual cause of death in 1960, 113
deaths were attributed to this disease, 64 male and 49 female. The cancer deaths
also showed a slight increase entirely accounted for by the increase in deaths
from lung cancer.
The cancer total has been altered to include leukaemia and corresponding
alterations have been made in the totals for previous years for comparison.
There were four deaths from leukaemia in 1960 two male, ages 51 and 68, and
two female, ages 57 and 64. It is interesting to note that in 1954 which had
the highest cancer death rate recorded in this Borough, the deaths from lung
cancer numbered 36, 30 male and 6 female, compared with 34 in 1960, 27 male and
7 female.

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