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BIRTHS.
The number registered in the district was 199, and the number
assigned to the district by the Registrar General 299, and this gives a
birth-rate of 12.5. The Infantile Mortality rate is calculated on the
number of births assigned to the district by the Registrar General. The
still-births during the year numbered only 5. This remains fairly low,
being 16.6 per 1000 births, against 9.4 per 1000 births in 1932, and
26.0 per 1000 in 1931.
DEATHS.
Table 2 shows in detail the registered causes of death in
alphabetical order, their distribution in wards, and particulars of the
inward and outward transfers.
The number of nett deaths was 217, giving a crude death-rate of
9.1 per 1000. Since the preparation of the Death-Table, the Registrar has
assigned 217 deaths to the district, and this will give the corrected
death-rate for comparative purposes as 10.0 per 1000. The infant mortality
rate is 57 per 1000 births.
Affections of the Heart and Circulatory system continues to be
the principal cause of deaths there being an increase of 20 deaths as
compared with 1932. Cancer was again the cause of many deaths in persons
over the age of 45, and Influenza c.nd Pneumonia caused a considerable
number of deaths during the winter months in elderly persons.

There was only 1 death from Diarrhoeal diseases.
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA.
Public Health Officers of the Authority.
Dorothy M. Catchpool, M.B.,B.S.,D.P.H. Part time Medical Officer of Health.
Albert George Harman, Whole time Sanitary Inspector.