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VITAL STATISTICS
Area of the borough 8,579 acres.
Population
Census 1961 290,582
Estimate of Registrar General at midyear 1967 289,700
Rateable Value
Rateable value of the borough at April 1, 1967 £12,329,092
Estimated net product of a penny rate 1967/8 £48,500
Estimated number of separately assessed dwellings at April, 1 1967 87,997
Births Males Females Total
Legitimate 2,366 2,240 4,606
Illegitimate 357 345 702
Totals 2,723 2,585 5,308
Crude birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated population 18.3
Adjusted birth rate for comparative purposes
(Area comparability factor=0 .96) 17.6
Stillbirths
Total (39 males and 25 females) 64
Rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths 11.9
(males 14 • 1 females 9.6)
Deaths
Total (1,707 males, 1,633 females) 3,340
Crude death rate per 1,000 population 11.5
Adjusted death rate
(area comparability factor=0.97) 11.2
Infant mortality
1 nfant deaths (all deaths of liveborn children under one year)
Males Females Total
Legitimate 46 27 73
Illegitimate 10 3 13
Totals 56 30 86
Death rate of all infants per 1000 livebirths 16.2
Death rate of legitimate infants per 1000 legitimate livebirths 15.8
Death rate of illegitimate infants per 1000 illegitimate livebirths 18.5
Death rate of male infants per 1000 male livebirths 20.6
Death rate of female infants per 1000 female livebirths 11.6
Neonatal deaths (under 4 weeks of age) 54
(36 males, 18 females)
Males per 1000 male livebirths 13.2
Females per 1000 female livebirths 7.0
All infants per 1000 livebirths 10.2
Early neonatal deaths (under 1 week of age) 46
(30 males, 16 females)
Males per 1000 male livebirths 11.0
Females per 1000 female livebirths 6.2
All infants per 1000livebirths 8.7
Perinatal mortality (deaths under 1 week plus stillbirths) 110
(69 males, 41 females)
Males per 1000 live and still male births 25'0
Females per 1000 live and still female births 15.7
All infants per 1000 live and stillbirths 20.5
Reproductive wastage (stillbirths plus all infant deaths) 150
Males per 1000 live and still male births 34.4
Females per 1000 live and still female births 21.1
All infants per 1000 live and stillbirths 27.9
Maternal deaths
Maternal deaths 1
Maternal mortality rate per 1000 live and stillbirths 0.2
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