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DEATHS
The deaths allocated to the district, as adjusted by inward and
outward transferable deaths, was 498—253 males and 245 females. This
gives a crude death rate of 8.0 per thousand population as against 8.4
in the year before. The "comparable" death rate produced by the
application of the Registrar-General's comparability factor of 1.21 to
allow for differences in the age and sex constitution of the local population
as compared with the country as a whole was 9.6. The rate for
England and Wales was 11.3.
The distribution of the deaths by wards was as follows:

Although there was a fall from the record high figure for cancer
mortality of the year before, the deaths from cancer of the lungs showed
no reduction, 30 such deaths being registered, representing 30 per cent.
of the total cancer deaths. Fatal disease in this site was nine times
more common in men than in women.

The classification of the cancer deaths by sites affected is given
in Table 5.
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