Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Area (acres) | 2,503.9 |
Population (Registrar General's Estimate, mid-year, 1964) | 85,840 |
Population, Census, 1961 | 85,735 |
Number of private dwellings (Census, 1961) | 30,801 |
Rateable Value (at 1st April, 1964) | £69,840,971 |
Births Live Births (registered)—
Legitimate | 865 | 440 | 425 |
Illegitimate | 153 | 78 | 75 |
1,018 | 518 | 500 | |
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population | 11.85 | ||
Area Comparability Factor—Births: 0.83 | |||
Birth rate (adjusted) | 9.83 | ||
(Rate for England and Wales, 18.4) | |||
Number of stillbirths (males, 15; females, 8) | 23 | ||
Rate of stillbirths per 1,000 (live and still) births | 22.09 | ||
Total live and stillbirths | 1,041 | ||
Illegitimate live births per cent. of total live births | 15.03 |
Deaths
Net deaths (males 498; females, 406) | 904 |
Death-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population | 10.53 |
Area Comparability Factor—Deaths: 1.0 | |
Death rate (adjusted) | 10.53 |
(Rate for England and Wales, 11.3) | |
Deaths arising from pregnancy, childbirth, abortion | 1 |
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births | 0.96 |
Deaths of infants under 1 year (males, 12; females, 11) | 23 |
Death-rate of infants under 1 year— | |
All infants per 1,000 live births | 22.59 |
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births | 21.96 |
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births | 26.14 |
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000 | |
total live births) | 14.73 |
Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per | |
1,000 total live births) | 14.73 |
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths plus deaths under 1 week | |
per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) | 36.50 |