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Mortality The principal causes of death were diseases of the heart
and circulation, 56.0 per cent (as against 55.7 per cent, in 1960), and
cancer, 20.3 per cent. (as against 18.7 per cent, in 1960). Deaths from
cancer of the lung increased from thirty-eight to forty-four, and the total
deaths from cancer showed about an 18 per cent, increase.
Deaths from coronary disease showed a big increase from one hundred
and fifty-seven to two hundred and two, a 29 per cent, increase. Deaths
from accidents were eighteen (as against twenty in 1960), of which six
were due to motor vehicles. Suicides numbered fourteen in 1961 (as against
thirteen in 1960).

Maternal Mortality. There was no maternal death.
Infantile Mortality. There were seventeen deaths of infants under one
year in 1961 (fifteen in 1960). Of these, fifteen were legitimate infants and
two illegitimate infants. The infantile mortality rate was 15.4 per thousand
live births, compared with, 21.4 per thousand live births for England and
Wales. Of the seventeen deaths, fifteen occurred in the neo-natal period
within one month of birth, fourteen being within the first week, as is shown
in the following table of causes and age groups.

NEW LEGISLATION
(1) Public Health Act, 1961
This Act came into force on the 3rd October, 1961 and is an Act to
amend the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1936, relating to building
byelaws and makes such amendments of the law relating to public health
matters as are commonly made in local Acts, and also amends the law
relating to trade effluents.
It also gives some additional powers in the control of Infectious
Diseases and makes compensation for loss of work obligatory in certain
circumstances connected with infectious diseases.
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