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number of illegitimate births was 193 or 11.5 per cento of the total
live births, an increase of 0.8 per cent. over the previous year.
The number of still births also increased by 4 to a total of
30.
INFANT MORTALITY
Thirty-four children under one year of age died and of these
26 were under one week old. The infant mortality rate (deaths of
children under one year per 1,000 live births) was 20, compared
with 22 in 1959.
DEATHS
The total number of deaths of Hampstead residents in 1960
was 1,020 giving a crude death rate of 10.4 deaths per 1,000 of the
population and an adjusted death rate for purposes of comparison
with other areas of 10. 5. In 1959 the crude rate and adjusted rate
were both 10.9.
There are some differences in the deaths from some
particular causes as compared with the previous year, but these
are either so small or there are factors which influenced the number
in I960 which makes it unwise to suggest any particular trends.
For example, the number of deaths from tuberculosis was 4.
This is equal to the 1956 figure which was the lowest ever recorded
in the Borough and it is in fact less than half the figure for 1958,
but had there been two more deaths the number would have exceeded
the average of the last five years.
In a similar way the deaths from cancer of the lung have
increased from 38 in 1959 to 63 in 1960 but the total for 1959 and
1960 (101) is less than the total for 1957 and 1958 (108).
There was only one death from influenza (19 in 1959) and
the deaths from bronchitis (47) shows a reduction of a quarter.
Deaths of Hampstead residents from motor accidents, which
did not, of course, necessarily occur in Hampstead, rose from 6 to
13, of which four were of persons over the age of 65 years. Other
accidents caused 18 deaths (a reduction of 6) and of these twelve of
the people were over 65 years of age, ten being over 75 years.