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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Lewisham 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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| Rateable value of the borough at April 1, 1965 | £11,872,018 | ||
| Estimated net product of a penny rate 1965/6 | £ 47,250 | ||
| Estimated number of separately assessed dwellings at April, 1 1965 | 84,695 | ||
| Legitimate Illegitimate | 2,521 356 | 2,567 347 | 5,088 703 |
| Totals | 2,877 | 2,914 | 5,791 |
| Crude birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated population | 200 | ||
| Adjusted birth rate for comparative purposes (Area comparability factor=0.96) | 19.2 | ||
| Total (40 males and 42 females) | 82 | ||
| Rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths (males 13.7 females 14.2) | 140 | ||
| Total (1,886 males, 1,550 females) | 3,436 | ||
| Crude death rate per 1,000 population | 11.9 | ||
| Adjusted death rate | |||
| (area comparability factor=0.97) | 11.5 | ||
| Infant deaths (all deaths of liveborn children under one year) | |||
| Legitimate | 75 | 37 | 112 |
| Illegitimate | 14 | 9 | 23 |
| Totals | 89 | 46 | 135 |
| Death rate of all infants per 1000 livebirths | 23.3 | ||
| Death rate of legitimate infants per 1000 legitimate livebirths | 22.0 | ||
| Death rate of illegitimate infants per 1000 illegitimate livebirths | 32.7 | ||
| Death rate of male infants per 1000 male livebirths | 30.9 | ||
| Death rate of female infants per 1000 female livebirths | 15.8 | ||
| Neonatal deaths (under 4 weeks of age) | 91 | ||
| (66 males, 25 females) Males per 1000 male livebirths | 22.9 | ||
| Females per 1000 female livebirths | 8.6 | ||
| All infants per 1000 livebirths Early neonatal deaths (under 1 week of age) | 15.7 86 | ||
| (61 males, 25 females) Males per 1000 male livebirths | 21.2 | ||
| Females per 1000 female livebirths | 8.6 | ||
| All infants per 1000 livebirths | 14.8 | ||
| Perinatal mortality (deaths under 1 week plus stillbirths) | 168 | ||
| (101 males, 67 females) Males per 1000 live and still male births | 34.6 | ||
| Females per 1000 live and still female births | 22.7 | ||
| All infants per 100 live and stillbirths | 28.6 | ||
| Reproductive wastage (stillbirths plus all infant deaths) | 217 | ||
| Males per 1000 live and still male births | 44.2 | ||
| Females per 1000 live and still female births | 29.8 | ||
| All infants per 1000 live and stillbirths | 37.0 | ||
| Maternal deaths | 4 | ||
| Maternal mortality rate ner 1000 live and stillbirths | 0.7 | ||
| Deaths from certain causes | |||
| Tuberculosis of respiratory system | 17 | ||
| Other forms of tuberculosis | — | ||
| Respiratory diseases (other than tuberculosis) (Code Nos. 22-25) | 580 | ||
| Cancer (Code Nos. 10-15) | 741 | ||
| Heart and circulation diseases (Code Nos. 17-21) | 1,586 | ||
| Suicide | 35 | ||