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VITAL STATISTICS
Area in acres 2,594
Population (Census 1962) 93,357
Population (Registrar-General's Estimate, 1964) 91,420
Assessable Value for General Rate Purposes 3,785,000
General Rate in the £ (1964/65 l1s. 2d
The Registrar-General's mid-year 1964 estimate of population (viz., 91,420 has been
used for the calculation of the following statistics:-
Live Births 1,576
Live Birth Rate per 1,000 population 17.24
Stillbirths 15
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 total (live and stillbirths) 9.43
Total Live and Stillbirths 1,591
Infant Deaths 29
Infant Mortality rate per 1,000 live births 18.40
" " „ „ 1,000 legitimate births 19.71
" " „„ 1,000 illegitimate births 9.52
Neo-Natal Mortality Rate (first four weeks) per 1,000 related live births 13.32
Early Neo-natal Mortality Rate (first week) per 1,000 related live births 13.32
Peri-natal Mortality Rate (stillbirths and deaths during the first week)
per 1,000 total still and live births 22.63
Percentage of illegitimate live births 7.13
Maternal Deaths (including abortion) 1
Maternal Mortality Rate (including abortion) per 1,000 total live births 0.63
Total Deaths 1,347
Death Rate 14.73
Natural increase of Population 229
Comparability Factor
To make approximate allowance for the way in which the sex and age distribution
of the Borough population differs from that for England and Wales as a whole, the
Registrar-General has issued the following comparability factors for Leyton.
Area comparability factor for births 1,02
Area comparability factor for deaths 0.79
These factors, when applied to the crude rates, produce the
following adjusted rates:-
Live Births 17.58
Deaths 11.64
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