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SECTION A
GENERAL AND VITAL STATISTICS
Area of the Borough 3,092 acres
POPULATION (Registrar-General's estimate Mid-year 1964) 227,090
BIRTHS Rate per 1,000 Population
Totals M F Islington England & Wales
Legitimate 4,912 2,551 2,361 0.82 20.9 18.4
Illegitimate 883 437 446 (Area
Live Births 5,795 2,988 2,807 Comparability (Adjusted)
Factor)
Rate per 1,000 Total (Live
and Still) Births
Islington England & Wales
Legitimate 71 37 34
Illegitimate 20 14 6
Still Births 91 51 40 15.5 16.3
Total Live and Still Births 5,886
Illegitimate live births per centage of total live births 15.2
Notifications of Births (year ended 31st December 1964) 5,875 (corrected
figure from
L.C.C.)
marriages (Provisional figures) solemnised in the Borough 2,402
deaths Rate per 1,000 Population
Total M F Islington England & Wales
All Deaths 2,438 1,182 1,256 1.12 12.0 11.3
(Area
Comparability (Adjusted)
Factor)
Infant deaths under 1 year Rate per 1,000 Live Births
Total 113 Islington England & Wales
19.5 20.0
Legitimate 17.7
Illegitimate 29.4
Early neonatal mortality (deaths under
1 week) 14.1
Neonatal mortality rate (do.
4 weeks) 14.8
Rate per 1.000 Total Live
and Still Births
Perinatal mortality (still births and deaths
under 1 week combined) 29.4
Maternal deaths (including abortion) 3 0.51 0.25