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DEATHS
The number of deaths allocated by the Registrar-General, as adjusted
for the outward transfer of non-residents and the inward transfer of residents
dying outside the area was 646, 354 being males and 292 females. This
gives a crude death rate of 11.5 per thousand population. The "comparable"
death rate produced by the application of the Registrar-General's
"comparability factor" of 1.08 was therefore 12.4. That for England and
Wales as a whole was 12.2.
The crude death rate of 11.5 compares with 10.6 in 1962. The annual
rise in this mortality index is to be expected in a population which continues
to grow steadily older.

Although 37 more people died in 1963 than in the year before, they
died on an average rather more than one year later in life.
Heart disease, as always, was the largest cause of death and in this
category coronary disease accounted for no less than 135.
The second main killing disease was again cancer with the lungs being
the most prominent of the sites affected. The deaths from lung cancer
was the highest yet recorded at 45. A noteworthy feature is the higher
proportion of females among the victims of this lung disease, no less than
one third of the total deaths from cancer of thjs site. There can be little
doubt that the increasing habit of cigarette smoking among women has
considerable significance in this context.