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Rates: 1. All infants per thousand livebirths 20.5 (23.0)
2. Legitimate infants per thousand
legitimate livebirths 20.6 (22.6)
3. Illegitimate infants per thousand
illegitimate livebirths 20.2 (26.3)
4. Male infants per thousand male livebirths 21.8 (29.1)
5. Female infants per thousand female
livebirths 19.3 (16.5)
Neonatal deaths (under 4 weeks of age) 58 (63)
Neonatal death rates:—
Males, per 1,000 male livebirths 16.4
Females, per 1,000 female livebirths 11.6
All infants, per 1,000 livebirths 20.5 (15.8)
Early neonatal deaths (under 1 week of age) 48 (53)
Males, per thousand male livebirths 13.1
Females, per thousand female livebirths 10.1
All infants per thousand livebirths 11.6 (13.3)
Perinatal mortality (deaths under 1 week plus stillbirths) 92 (107)
Males, per thousand live and still male births 25.3
Females, per thousand live and still female births 18.6
All infants, per thousand live and stillbirths 22 0 (26.4)
Reproductive wastage—(Stillbirths plus all infant deaths) 129 (146)
Males, per 1,000 live and still male births 33.9
Females, per 1,000 live and still female births 27.7
All infants, per 1,000 live and still births 30.8 (36.0)
Maternal deaths
Maternal deaths 2 (2)
Maternal mortality rate per thousand live and still births 0.5 (0.5)
Other special causes of death
Measles — (—)
Whooping-cough — (—)
Gastroenteritis (infants) — (—)
Tuberculosis (all forms) 7 (15)
Motor vehicle accidents 34 (19)
Suicide 30 (40)
Respiratory diseases (other than tuberculosis)
(Code Nos. 22-25) 370 (401)
Cancer (Code Nos. 10-15) 569 (490)
Heart and circulation diseases (Code Nos. 17-21) 1,198 (1,325)
Comparative statistics for the year 1964
Table 1
Birth rate
Death rate
(per 1,000
population)
(adjusted)
Infant
mortality
rate (per 1,000
livebirths)
Live
births
(adjusted)
Still
births
Lewisham
18.0
10.5
11.2
20.5
England and Wales
18.4
16.3
11.3
20.0
London Administrative County
17.2
14.9
10.7
21.2