H.—4o

(e) The Age and Sex of Persons killed or injured. The age and sex of the victims of the 4,383 motor accidents are shown in Tables I and J hereunder.

Table I. —Persons killed or injured, according to Age and Sex.

Table J.— Relating the Number oF Casualties to Population in the various Age-groups.

Table J relates the numbers of casualties in each age-group to the population in those groups. It is seen that in the case of the very young and also the two oldest age-groups the severity of accident is greater than for the other ages. While over all age-groups there was one person killed for every 24 injured, there was one child under five years killed for every 13 injured. Again, in the age-group fifty-five to sixty-four years one person was killed for 13 others injured, while of those persons sixty-five years or over every tenth casualty resulted in a fatality. When considering deaths on a population basis the older age-groups suffer heavily. The average death-rate for all ages is 15-6 per 100,000, but the group of persons who have reached sixty-five years or more has a road-death rate of nearly 35 per 100,000 population and the fifty-five to sixty-four years group has a death-rate of 26-5 per 100,000. Of the other age-groups the persons from twenty to twenty-four years have the highest death-rate—nearly twenty-seven per 100,000. Children have the lowest rate, the group from ten to fourteen years recording only 5-5 deaths per 100,000. When all accidents are taken into consideration it is found that the twenty to twenty-four years age-group has the worst record —viz., 717 casualties per 100,000 population The fifteen to nineteen

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Number of Persons killed or injured. Age-group. Killed. Injured. Total. Male. Female, Male. Female. j, e^m Male, Female. Sj £ | 0- 4 years . .. 6 4 10 78 49 127 84 53 137 5 _ 9 years .. 6 5 11 131 95 226 137 100 237 10-14 years 4 4 8 211 120 331 215 J 24 339 15-19 years 22 5 27 577 242 819 599 247 846 20-24 years .. 33 5 38 723 252 975 756 257 1,013 25-34 years 31 4 35 819 271 1,090 850 275 1,125 35-44 years . 19 5 24 442 209 651 461 214 675 45-54 years .. 15 5 20 394 233 627 409 238 647 55-64 years .. 32 5 37 311 151 462 343 156 499 65 years and oyer .. 23 12 35 207 96 303 230 108 338 Age not reported .. 1 1 16 8 24 17 8 Total .. •• 192 54 246 3,909 1,726 5,635 4,101 1,780 5,881

Fa§~ a § 1= ™ § k ® § 1:3 So , w © '■£ S s t3 § «2 e -< P-1-5 (£«. (S ■=• Ph S ■§ Population cjh ,g <« .0 «|-g •« t, "§ ««-J P Age-group. (19 36 Census). °J °g **£ ft* || || |l-3 fg<S ||| | Is I 3 l§ I 1 Per Cent. Per Cent. 0-4 years .. .. ■■ 130,762 10 137 7-3 7-7 105 5-9 years 140,994 11 237 4-6 7-8 168 10-14 years . •■ •• 145,647 8 339 2-4 5-5 233 15-19 years 140,221 27 846 3-2 19-2 603 20-24 years 141,340 38 1,013 3-7 26-9 717 25-34 years . .. •• 245,146 35 1,125 3-1 14-3 459 35-44 years • • •• 200,180 24 675 3-6 12-0 337 45-54 years .. •• 187,295 20 647 3-1 10-7 345 55-64 years 139,631 37 499 7-4 26-5 357 65 years and over .. •• 100,774 35 338 10-3 34-7 335 Unspecified .. •• 1,820 1 25 4-0 Total •• 1,573,810 246 5,881 4-2 15-6 374