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SECTION A.
GENERAL AND VITAL STATISTICS
Area of the Borough 3 092 acres
Population.
Registrar-General's estimate of civilian population.
Mid-year 1958: 225,800
Live Births. BIRTH RATE PER 1 000 ESTIMATED
RESIDENT POPULATION
England &
Totals M. F. Islington Wales
Legitimate 4.098 2,045 2,053
Illegitimate 494 270 224
4,592 2,315 2,277 20.3 16.4
Illegitimate live births per cent of total
live births 10.76
Still Births. RATE PER 1.000 TOTAL (LIVE AND
STILL) BIRTHS
England &
Totals M. F. Islington Wales
Legitimate 90 44 46
Illegitimate 13 7 6
103 51 52 21.94 21.6
Total live and still births 4,695
Deaths DEATH RATE (UNADJUSTED) PER
1,000 POPULATION
England &
Totals M. F. Islington Wales
2,594 1,273 1 321 11 49 11.7
Maternal deaths (including abortion)
Total deaths 6
Islington England &
Wales
Maternal mortality rate
per 1.000 live & still births 1.28 0.43
Infant mortality
Total deaths 107
Islington England &
Wales
Infant mortality rate
per 1,000 live births total 23 23
do. legitimate 21
do illegitimate 45
Neo natal mortality rate
per 1,000 live births (first four weeks) 16.55
Notifications of Births
For year ended 3rd January 1959 4,720 (corrected figure
from L. C. C.)
marriages (Provisional figures)
Marriages solemnised in the Borough during the year 2 368