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Hammersmith 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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PART 1
STATISTICS AND TABLES
The following statistical information relating to the Borough has been completed
from the Local and National Statistics issued by the Registrar-General in connection
with population, live births, stillbirths and deaths.
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 rate "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 other area.
Area (acres) 2,282.5
Population:-
| Census, 1951 | 119,367 |
| Census, 1961 | 110,333 |
| Registrar-General's estimate mid-1963 | 107,660 |
| Registrar-General's estimate mid-1964 | 107,530 |
| Rating:— | |
| Number of inhabited houses | 25,249 |
| Rateable Value | £7,983,555 |
| Product of a penny rate | £31,250 |
| Mortality:— | |
| Number of deaths | 1,152 |
| Death Rate per 1,000 population: | |
| Crude | 10.7 |
| Adjusted (Comparability Factor 1.12) | 12.0 |
| England and Wales | 12.2 |
| Deaths from heart and circulatory diseases | 480 |
| Deaths from Cancer | 296 |
| Deaths from Measles | — |
| Deaths from Whooping Cough | — |
| Deaths from Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | — |