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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 an,d 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 11.4.
The birth rate during 1961 was 17.5 as compared with 17.3 during the
previous year. The adjusted rate for comparison-with other areas is 16.8.
The infant mortality rate was 19.6 which 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 837 live births (434 male and 403 female) were notified
and in addition there were 17 still birth5(12 male and 5 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 mast 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.