[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough] page 6

Islington 1955

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

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Table: COMPARATIVE VITAL STATISTICS—1944 TO 1955 (Compiled from Registrar-General's Returns)

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COMPARATIVE VITAL STATISTICS—1944 TO 1955 (Compiled from Registrar-General's Returns)

	1955	1954	1953	1952	1951	1950	1949	1948	1947	1946	1945	1944
Population	228,800	230,500	233,500	235,300	235,800	238,200	239,580	238,200	236,840	227,160	195,770	188,560
Live Births--(Total)	3,945	4,063	3,969	3,897	3,880	4,091	4,389	4,608	5,577	5,284	3,708	3,826
(Illegitimate)	340	336	296	282	285	302	318	331	431	442	438	335
Birth Rate per 1,000 population	17.2	17.6	17.0	16.56	16.45	17.17	18.32	19.34	23.55	23.26	18.94	20.29
Still Birth Rate per 1,000 births	21.09	19.31	22.66	17.89	20.94	17.48	19.87	18.94	18.99	22.20	22.41	25.72
Deaths	2,591	2,425	2,669	2,876	3,131	2,760	2,958	2,682	3,053	2,947	2,856	3,057
Death rate	11.32	10.52	11.43	12.22	13.28	11.59	12.35	11.26	12.89	12.97	14.59	16.21
Maternal Death rate per 1,000 births	0.25	0.48	0.99	1.01	0.50	0.72	0.67	0.85	0.70	1.48	0.26	2.03
Death rate of Infants under 1 year	26	17	24	22	28	29	27	35	32	39	46	48
Marriage rate per 1,000 population	20.95	19.35	19.08	17.85	19.17	18.37	18.61	19.67	19.54	20.21	25.00	18.36
T.B. Notifications per 1,000 population (all forms)	1.97	1.94	2.08	2.03	1.77	2.05	2.20	2.25	2.43	2.18	2.81	3.14
Death-rates per 1,000 population-
Pulmonary T.B.	0.20	0.16	0.16	0.30	0.30	0.38	0.52	0.66	0.70	0.64	0.80	0.86
Diphtheria	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil	0.004	0.004	0.008	Nil	0.004	Nil	0.01	0.01
Suicides	0.13	0.13	0.14	0.076	0.15	0.09	0.12	0.15	0.07	0.11	0.06	0.10
Road Traffic Accidents	0.14	0.082	0.077	0.076	0.11	0.10	0.06	0.08	0.11	0.10	0.07	0.16
Other violent causes	0.22	0.17	0.20	0.22	0.26	0.26	0.25	0.43	0.37	0.45	1.05	1.84