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Average age at death:
Males 60.4 years
Females 64.4 years
All persons 62.0 years
The other cause of death which in recent years has, like cancer, been
assuming greater prominence is coronary disease of the heart. The number
of deaths assigned to this disease in 1955 was 93, an increase of 19 over the
year before. It exceeds all other forms of heart disease and is, after cancer,
the greatest single cause of mortality.
The most notable feature of the death returns for 1955 was the phenomenal
fall in mortality from tuberculosis. There has been a progressive
although irregular fall in the death rate for this disease over the last 20
years but this index took a sudden plunge downwards in the year under
review. Only three deaths were attributable to tuberculosis against an
average of 15 in each of the previous five years.
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