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of young and old people and of males and females in the area, and in order to make
comparisons between one area and another the Registrar General gives Area
Comparability Factors which take into account these variations in age and sex.
Using this factor the adjusted death rate for Bethnal Green would be 11.0 as compared
with 11.5 for England and Wales.
The birth rate during 1960 was 17.3 as compared with 16.7 during the
previous year. The adjusted rate for comparison with other areas is 16.4 as compared
with 17.1 for England and Wales.
The infant mortality rate was 25.6 as compared with the rate of 21. 9 for
England and Wales. It is, in Bethnal Green, however, calculated on a very small
number of infant deaths and is consequently subject to large variations from year to
year and as an indication of child care the figure should be used with some
caution.
The causes of death are shown in Table 1, which follows.
Notification of Births
Arrangements continued in operation during the year whereby the London
County Council furnished to the Borough Council a weekly return of births
(including stillbirths) notified to them as the Local Health Authority under the
National Health Service Act, 1946.
During the year 864 live births (446 male and 418 female) were notified
and in addition there were 10 stillbirths (8 male and 2 female),
These figures represent corrected totals after the addition of inward
transfers and the deduction of outward transfers and the difference between these
figures and those set out previously is due to the fact that births must be registered
within 6 weeks and it is not uncommon for a child to be born and notified in one
calendar year but not actually registered until the following year.