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Infant mortality rate per 1,000 total live births 19.4
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 live legitimate births 19.5
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 live illegitimate births 17.8
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under four weeks per 1,000
total live births) 11.8
Early Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000
total live births) 9.7
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under 1 week
combined, per 1,000 total live and still births) 27.9
Infant mortality rate for England and Wales 20.9
Maternal Mortality.
Maternal deaths (including abortion) 2
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 total live and still births 1.36
Maternal mortality rate for England and Wales 0.28
Deaths.
Males. Females. Total.
466 486 952
Crude death rate per 1,000 estimated total population 10.7
Adjusted rate for comparison with other areas 12.6
(The area comparability factor for deaths is 1.18)
Death rate for England and Wales 12.2
POPULATION.
The Registrar General's estimate of the total population of the
Urban District, mid-year 1963, is 89,130 which is an increase of
570 over the figure for the previous year.
This population figure gives a density of 9.95 persons to the
acre.
The natural increase in population, measured by excess of
births over deaths was 491.
BIRTHS.
1,443 live births appertaining to the area were registered during
1963, of which 766 were males and 677 females. 1,387 of these
births were legitimate and 56 illegitimate. The crude birth rate