[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough] page 7

Islington 1953

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

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Table: COMPARATIVE VITAL STATISTICS — 1942 TO 1953. (Compiled from Registrar-General's Returns)

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COMPARATIVE VITAL STATISTICS — 1942 TO 1953. (Compiled from Registrar-General's Returns)

	1953	1952	1951	1950	1949	1948	1947	1946	1945	1944	1943	1942
Population	233,500	235,300	235,800	238,200	239,580	238,200	236,840	227,160	195,770	188,560	189,970	186,000
Live Births—(Total)	3,969	3,897	3,880	4,091	4,389	4,608	5,577	5,284	3,708	3,826	3,592	3,368
(Illegitimate) —	296	282	285	302	318	331	431	442	438	335	264	251
Birth Rate per 1,000 population	17.0	16.56	16.45	17.17	18.32	19.34	23.55	23.26	18.94	20.29	18.91	18.10
Still Birth Rate per 1,000 births	22.66	17.89	20.94	17.48	19.87	18.94	18.99	22.20	22.41	25.72	24.97	33.29
Deaths	2,669	2,876	3,131	2,760	2,958	2,682	3,053	2,947	2,856	3,057	3,017	2,852
Death rate	11.43	12.22	13.28	11.59	12.35	11.26	12.89	12.97	14.59	16.21	15.88	15.33
Maternal Death rate per 1,000 births	0.99	1.01	0.50	0.72	0.67	0.85	0.70	1.48	0.26	2.03	2.71	2.29
Death rate of Infants under 1 year	24	22	28	29	27	35	32	39	46	48	46	54
Marriage rate per 1,000 population	19.08	17.85	19.17	18.37	18.61	19.67	19.54	20.21	25.00	18.36	18.59	25.30
T.B. Notifications per 1,000 population (all forms)	2.08	2.03	1.77	2.05	2.20	2.25	2.43	2.18	2.81	3.14	3.04	2.30
Death-rates per 1,000 population—
Pulmonary T.B.	0.16	0.30	0.30	0.38	0.52	0.66	0.70	0/4	0.80	0.86	0.85	0.93
Diphtheria	Nil	Nil	0.004	0.004	0.008	Nil	0.004	Nil	0.01	0.01	0.05	0.01
Suicides	0.14	0.076	0.15	0.09	0.12	0.15	0.07	0.11	0.06	0.10	0.08	0.14
Road Traffic Accidents	0.077	0.076	0.11	0.10	0.06	0.08	0.11	0.10	0.07	0.16	0.10	0.16
Other violent causes	0.20	0.22	0.26	0.26	0.25	0.43	0.37	0.45	1.05	1.84	0.38	1.45