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mortality
Deaths by age, cause and sex are shown in Table 1; total deaths were 2,540 (2,460) giving
a crude death rate of 10.6 (10.2) per 1,000 population, which when adjusted by an area comparability
factor of 1.11 gave a standardised rate of 11.8 (11.3) a little above the rate of 11.7 for England and
Wales.
Deaths are shown by cause in Table 2 for the years 1948 to 1966. As in previous years,
the leading cause of death in 1966 was disease of the heart, but at a lower level than in 1965 - 711
(771) deaths.
Cancer caused 605 deaths, only three less than the peak figure of 1965; of this total 181
were due to cancer of the lung and bronchus, the greatest figure so far recorded.
Other leading causes were in order, bronchitis and pneumonia-335 (279); vascular lesions
of the central nervous system . 253 (233); and other circulatory disease - 125 (117).
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