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Crude death rate for Greater London per 1,000
population 11.5
Death rate for England and Wales 11.6
Cancer Death Rates:
All forms (per 1,000 population) 2.4
Lung and Bronchus (per 1,000 population) 0.65
Other forms (per 1,000 population) 1.75
Population:
The Registrar-General's estimate of the population of the
Borough, mid-year 1971, was 306,680. This figure gives a density
of 8.16 persons to the acre.
The natural increase of population, measured by excess of
births over deaths, was 1,167. The figure for 1970 was 1,186.
Births Registered:
There were 4,282 live births allocated to the Borough during
1971, after adjustments for inward and outward transfers, this
being a decrease of 86 on the figure for the previous year.
Of the 4,282 live births, 2,206 were males and 2,076 were
females.
The crude birth rate for the Borough was 14.0 per 1,000
population and the adjusted birth rate, for use when comparing
one area with another, was 14.1.
The birth rate for 1971 was 0.5 lower than that recorded for
1970 and it is below the figures of 15.2 and 16.0 for Greater
London and England and Wales respectively.

Deaths:
3,115 deaths were registered in 1971, giving a crude death
rate of 10.2 per 1,000 population. This rate, when standardised
by the comparability factor, gives a figure of 9.9 for comparison
purposes. The rates for Greater London and England and Wales
were 11.5 and 11.6 respectively.
The following table shows cause of death as given in the
Registrar-General's statistics.