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DEATHS
The deaths allocated to the district, as adjusted by inward and outward
transferable deaths, was 582—315 males and 267 females. This gives a crude
death rate of 9.4 per thousand population as against 9.3 in the year before.
The "comparable" death rate produced by the application of the RegistrarGeneral's
comparability factor of 1.28 to allow for differences in the age and
sex constitution of the local population as compared with the country as a
whole was 11.8. The rate for England and Wales was 11.6.
The distribution of the deaths by wards was as follows:—

The cancer death rate in the district reached its highest point in 1958.
Last year it fell slightly from 2.23 to 2.07 per thousand population and
compares with a rate of 2.14 for the country as a whole. Deaths attributable
to cancer of the lungs were only two less than in 1958, which also had the
highest recorded mortality for cancer of this site. Fatal lung cancer was
again, as for a long time, much more common in men than in women,
nearly seven times. As will be seen from the following table, deaths from
malignant disease of the lungs is now almost five times greater than it was
fourteen years ago, although there has been no significant change in the
total population.