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Rates: 1. All infants per thousand livebirths 23.0 (18.9)
2. Legitimate infants per thousand
legitimate livebirths 22.6 (18.9)
3. Illegitimate infants per thousand
illegitimate livebirths 26.3 (19.4)
4. Male infants per thousand male livebirths 29.1 (24.2)
5. Female infants per thousand female
livebirths 16.5 (13.3)
Neonatal deaths (under 4 weeks of age) 63 (51)
Neonatal death rates:—
Males, per 1,000 male livebirths 20.4
Females, per 1,000 female livebirths 10.8
All infants, per 1,000 livebirths 15.8 (13.0)
Early neonatal deaths (under 1 week of age) 53 (46)
Males, per thousand male livebirths 18.0
Females, per thousand female livebirths 8.3
All infants per thousand livebirths 13.3 (11.8)
Perinatal mortality (deaths under 1 week plus stillbirths) 107 (96)
Males, per thousand live and still male births 32.1
Females, per thousand live and still female births 20.4
All infants, per thousand live and stillbirths 26.4 (24.2)
Reproductive wastage—(Stillbirths plus all infant deaths) 146 (124)
Males, per 1,000 live and still male births 43.1
Females, per 1,000 live and still female births 28.6
All infants, per 1,000 live and still births 36.0 (31.3)
Maternal deaths
Maternal deaths 2 (2)
Maternal mortality rate per thousand live and still births 0.5 (0.5)
Other special causes of death
Measles — (—)
Whooping-cough — (—)
Gastroenteritis (infants) — (—)
Tuberculosis (all forms) 15 (23)
Motor vehicle accidents 19 (28)
Suicide 40 (26)
Respiratory diseases (other than tuberculosis)
(Code Nos. 22.-25) 401 (339)
Cancer (Code Nos. 10-15) 490 (548)
Heart and circulation diseases (Code Nos. 17-21) 1,325 (1,207)
Comparative statistics for the year 1963
Table 1
Birth rate
Death rate
(per 1,000
population)
(adjusted)
Infant
mortality
rate (per 1,000
livebirths)
Live
births
(adjusted)
Still
births
Lewisham
17.4
13.3
11.4
23.0
England and Wales
18.2
17.3
12.2
20.9
London Administrative County
17.2
15.7
12.5
21.8