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SECTION A
VITAL STATISTICS
During the year births registered exceeded deaths registered by 383 but
through rehousing and other reasons some 1,600 residents moved from the Borough
to other areas and the home population estimated by the Registrar General to number
63,540 at the middle of the year shows a decrease of 1,240 compared with the
estimate for the previous year.
The birth rate was 17.7 per 1,000 of the population as compared with 17.1
for 1958. To enable a fair comparison to be made with other areas and the country
as a whole, area comparability factors which take into consideration the age and
sex distribution of the population are provided by the Registrar General. Factors
are supplied both for births and deaths. Using the comparability factor the
adjusted birth rate would be 17.0 as compared with 16.5 for England and Wales.
The death rate in 1959 was 11.7 per 1,000 of the population as compared with
11.2 for 1958 . Again using the comparability factor the adjusted death rate would
be 12.9 as compared with 11.6 for England and Wales. Comparative rates for the
previous year were 12.6 and 11.7 respectively.
The infant mortality rate, being the number of deaths of infants under one
year of age per 1,000 births, was 18.5 as compared with 33.2 for the previous year.
The figures for England and Wales are 22.0 and 22.6 respectively.
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