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Mortality. The principal causes of death were diseases of
the heart and circulation, 50 per cent, (as against 56 per cent,
in 1958) and cancer, 21.4 per cent, (as against 17.6 per cent, in
1958). Deaths from cancer of the lung increased from thirty six
to forty four and showed the highest Incidence ever to date in
females.
Deaths from coronary disease decreased from one hundred and
eighty four to one hundred and fifty one. Deaths from accidents
were twenty three, as In 1958, of which twelve were due to motor
vehicles.
Epidemiological and statistical studies have directed
attention to factors which are contributory to constitutional
diseases. There Is definite statistical correlation between the
smoking of cigarettes and cancer of the lung. The risk of
mortality can be reduced by abstinence from tobacco. The rise
In female deaths Is not unexpected.

Maternal Mortality. There was no maternal death.
Infantile Mortality. There were seventeen deaths of Infants
under one year in 1959, as In 1958. The Infantile mortality
rate was 16.5 per thousand live births, compared with 22.0 per
thousand live births for England and Wales. Of the seventeen
deaths, eleven occurred in the neo-natal period within one month
of birth, as Is shown in the following table of causes and age
groups.