VI records abnormally high death rate last year
The damning revelation came recently as House of Assembly’s Standing Finance Committee, examined the draft estimates for 2018 for government agencies with, Mrs Stephanie Benn, Registrar General (RG) of the Civil Registry and Passport Office.
Minister for Health and Social Development, Honourable, Ronnie W. Skelton (AL), was at the time enquiring about the death rate for the territory last year and was told of the abnormality.
4 Year Study
Mrs Benn informed the Committee that the average annual death rate recorded in the territory for the past four years was 135, but this spiked to 157 in 2017—an abnormally high rate.
Explaining the 2017 death rate as an abnormal, Mrs Benn said the highest peak for deaths transpiring in the Territory was experienced during September and December—the last four months of the year.
The Committee heard, while 152 deaths had been recorded one year in the past, the 2017 figure is in fact abnormal.
The data was compiled as part of a four year study.
Births
Meanwhile, on the matter of the Territory’s birth rate, Mrs Benn disclosed that there were a total of 247 births in 2017.
The Registrar General told the Committee members the office’s record date back to 1857.
On the matter of the number of marriages recorded in the territory, Mrs Benn was unable to provide those numbers.
Other persons present for the committee hearing from the Deputy Governor's office included, Ms Carolyn Stoutt-Igwe Acting Permanent Secretary, Deputy Governor's Office, Mr Paul Chapman, Accounts Officer II, Civil Registry and Passport Office, and Mrs Kara Penn-Stoutt, Finance and Planning Officer, Deputy Governor’s Office.
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9 Responses to “VI records abnormally high death rate last year”
Anecdotal evidence would have made me think that the rate would have been even higher post Irma, although I suspect some of the Irma related deaths will have been technically in 2018 but still as an indirect result (stress, etc).
Finally, there was a record murder rate in 2017 which would have contributed a few to the increase in the average. Then a few people died during Irma itself. If you factor those two things in then it seems the increase during 2017 itself as a result of Irma would not have rendered the numbers statistically abnormal at all.
I honestly do not see any meaningful changes taking place without a change in the mindset of the people. This whole situation is beginning to get very serious right now and it makes me wonder how many more lives must needlessly be lost because of the frustration of the people who are living under this demonic illusion.