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Kensington and Chelsea 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington & Chelsea Borough]
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VITAL STATISTICS
AREA
The area of the borough is 2,950.7 acres.
POPULATION
| Census 1961 | 218,528 |
| Estimate of Registrar-General at mid-year 1970 | 203,730 |
| Average density of population per acre | 69.O |
RATEABLE VALUE
| Rateable value of the borough at 1st April, 1970 | £26,443,885 |
| Estimated net product of a penny rate 1970/71 | £ 104,800 |
| Estimated number of separately assessed dwellings at 1st April, 1970 | 60,670 |
LIVE BIRTHS
| Males | Females | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legitimate | 1,048 | 992 | 2,040 |
| Illegitimate | 253 | 220 | 473 |
| Totals | 1,301 | 1,212 | 2,513 |
Crude birth rate per 1,000 of the
estimated population 12.3
Adjusted birth rate for comparative purposes
(Area comparability factor= 0.60)* 7.4
STILLBIRTHS
| Total (22 males and 10 females) | 32 |
| Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths | 12.6 |
DEATHS
| Total (968 males and 1,187 females) | 2,155 | |
| Crude death rate per 1,000 population | 10.6 | |
| Adjusted death rate | (Area comparability factor= 0.99)* | 10.5 |
INFANT MORTALITY Infant deaths (all deaths of liveborn children under one year)
| Males | Females | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legitimate | 28 | 17 | 45 |
| Illegitimate | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| Totals | 34 | 20 | 54 |
COMPARABILITY OF RATES (*)
The area comparability factors for use with crude birth and death
rates contain adjustments for boundary changes and make allowances for
the way in which the sex and age distribution of the local population
differs from that for England and Wales as a whole. In addition, the
death area comparability factors have been adjusted specifically to
take account of the presence of any residential institutions in each
area. When local crude birth and death rates are multiplied by the
appropriate area comparability factor, they are comparable with the
crude rate for England and Wales or with the corresponding adjusted
rate for any area for that year.