[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough] page 5

Islington 1950

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]

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COMPARATIVE VITAL STATISTICS—1939 TO 1950. (Compiled from Registrar General's Returns)

	1950	1949	1948	1947	1946	1945	1944	1943	1942	1941	1940	1939
Population	238,200	239,580	238,200	236,840	227,160	195,770	188,560	189,970	186,000	183,470	224,110	272,300
Live Births—(total)	4,091	4,389	4,608	5,577	5,284	3,708	3,826	3,592	3,368	2,986	3,850	4,168
(illegitimate)	302	318	331	431	442	438	335	264	251	214	272	245
Birth Rate per 1,000 population	17.17	18.32	19.34	23.55	23.26	18.94	20.29	18.91	18.10	16.27	17.18	14.47
Still Birth Rate per 1,000 births	17.48	19.87	18.94	18.99	22.20	22.41	25.72	24.97	33.29	26.72	32.17	30.24
Deaths	2,760	2,958	2,682	3,053	2,947	2,856	3,057	3,017	2,852	3,508	4,143	3,485
Death rate	11.59	12.35	11.26	12.89	12.97	14.59	16.21	15.88	15.33	19.12	18.48	12.79
Maternal Death rate per 1,000 births	0.72	. 0.67	0.85	0.70	1.48	0.26	2.03	2.71	2.29	3.02	1.59	1.47
Death-rate of infants under 1 year	29	27	35	32	39	46	48	46	54	59	47	50
Marriage rate per 1,000 population	18.37	18.61	19.67	19.54	20.21	25.00	18.36	18.59	25.30	28.07	32.92	23.89
T.B. Notifications per 1,000 population (all forms)	2.05	2.20	2.25	2.43	2.18	2.81	3.14	3.04	2.30	3.00	2.10	1.94
Death-rates per 1,000 population—
Pulmonary T.B.	0.38	0.52	0.66	0.70	0.64	0.80	0.86	0.85	0.93	1.20	0.84	0.82
Diphtheria	0.004	0.008	Nil	0.004	Nil	0.01	0.01	0.05	0.01	0.06	0.09	0.04
Suicides	0.09	0.12	0.15	0.07	0.11	0.06	0.10	0.08	0.14	0.14	0.17	0.15
Road Traffic Accidents	0.10	0.06	0.08	0.11	0.10	0.07	0.16	0.10	0.16	0.14	0.14	*
Other violent causes	0.26	0.25	0.43	0.37	0.45	1.05	1.84	0.38	1.45	1.74	2.38	0.56

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*Not given separately by Registrar General.