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VITAL STATISTICS
Area of the borough 8,579 acres.
Population
Census 1961 290,582
Estimate of Registrar General at midyear 1966 289,130
Rateable Value
Rateable value of the borough at April 1, 1966 £ 11,952,630
Estimated net product of a penny rate 1966/7 £47,500
Estimated number of separately assessed dwellings at April, 1 1966 85.503
Births Males Females Total
Legitimate 2,451 2,368 4,819
Illegitimate 373 359 732
Totals 2,824 2,727 5,551
Crude birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated population 19-2
Adjusted birth rate for comparative purposes
(Area comparability factor= 0.96) 18'4
Stillbirths
Total (43 males and 42 females) 85
Rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths 15-1
(males 15.0 females 15.2)
Deaths
Total (1,795 males, 1,611 females) 3,406
Crude death rate per 1,000 population 11-8
Adjusted death rate
(areacomparability factor 0.96) 11*3
Infant mortality
Infant deaths (all deaths of liveborn children under one year)
Males Females Total
Legitimate 66 40 106
Illegitimate 7 7 14
Totals 73 47 120
Death rate of all infants per 1000 livebirths 21-6
Death rate of legitimate infants per 1000 legitimate livebirths 22 0
Death rate of illegitimate infants per 1000 illegitimate livebirths 19-1
Death rate of male infants per 1000 male livebirths 25-8
Death rate of female infants per 1000 female livebirths 17-2
Neonatal deaths (under 4 weeks of age) 88
(54 males, 34 females)
Males per 1000 male livebirths 19-1
Females per 1000 female livebirths 12-5
All infants per 1000 livebirths 15-8
Early neonatal deaths (under 1 week of age) 79
(51 males, 28 females)
Males per 1000 male livebirths 18-1
Females per 1000 female livebirths 10-3
All infants per 1000 livebirths 14-2
Perinatal mortality (deaths under 1 week plus stillbirths) 164
(94 males, 70 females)
Males per 1000 live and still male births 32'8
Females per 1000 live and still female births 25-3
All infants per 1000 live and stillbirths 29-1
Reproductive wastage (stillbirths plus all infant deaths) 205
Males per 10001 ive and still male births 40-5
Females per 1000 live and still female births 32-1
All infants per 1000 live and stillbirths 36-4
Maternal deaths
Maternal deaths 1
Maternal mortality rate per 1000 live and stillbirths 0-2
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