It would appear that Galway city’s not so ‘deadly’ after all, as figures released this week by the Central Statistics Office show the city has the lowest death rate in the entire country.
With only 40 deaths in the first quarter of 2008, Galway city has firmly established itself as the city of the living, just days after Halloween brought out some of its deadliest creatures.
Far surpassing Longford town, which had the next lowest number of deaths with 72, Galway city’s death rate, which is based on deaths per year per 1,000 population, came in at an astonishingly low 2.2. The next lowest death rate was Fingal which came in at 3.4.
Of the 40 deaths in the first three months of the year, 14 were male and 26 were female. The most common causes of death were cancer and diseases of the circulatory system.
