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THE Registrar-General's Statistical Review of England and Wales for the Year 1933 (Tables, Part 1: Medical), pp. iv-v 406, has recently been published (London: H.M. Stationery Office. 65. net). It appears that the number of births registered in 1933 was 580,413, giving a rate of 14-4 per 1,000 persons living. This rate is 0-9 below that for 1932, and constitutes a new low record. The death-rate was 12-3 per 1,000 persons living, 0-3 above the rate for 1932 (the same as that for 1931) but 0-9 above that for 1930. The deaths of children under one year of age numbered 64 per 1,000 live births against 65 in 1932, 66 in 1931 and 60 in 1930. Cancer showed a death-rate of 1,526 per million persons living against 1,510 in 1932. If, however, allowance is made for differences in the age constitution of the population, the comparative mortality from cancer shows a slight decrease. Tuberculosis again furnished a new low record of 824 per million living. Puerperal sepsis caused the deaths of 1-75 women per 1,000 live and still births, 0-20 more than the rate for 1932 but 0-09 less than 1930. The death rate from suicide was 140 per million persons living, a decrease of 3 per million on the record high rate of 1932. A slow increase in this rate had been continuous for a number of years. Road accidents due to mechanical vehicles were responsible for 5,934 deaths. The figures for the last five years were 5,196, 5,752, 6,342, 5,892 and 5,671 respectively.
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National Medical Statistics. Nature 134, 929 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134929a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/134929a0