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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

City of Westminster 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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Table: STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS

STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS

Area (acres)2,502.7
Population (Registrar General's Estimate, mid-year, 1960)92,940
Population, Census, 196185,223
Number of inhabited houses (Census, 1951)27,349
Rateable Value (at 1st April, 1960)£21,776,612

Table: Births

Births

Total.Males.Females.
Legitimate892446446
Illegitimate1155362
1,007499508
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population10.83
Area Comparability Factor—Births: 0.82
Birth rate (adjusted)8.88
(Rate for England and Wales, 17.1)
Number of stillbirths (males, 7; females, 8)15
Rate of stillbirths per 1,000 (live and still) births14.67
Total live and still births1,022
Illegitimate live births per cent. of total live births11.42

Table: Deaths

Deaths

Net deaths (males 505; females, 441)946
Death-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population Area Comparability Factor—Deaths: 1.0410.17
Death rate (adjusted) (Rate for England and Wales, 11.5)10.57
Deaths arising from pregnancy, childbirth, abortion1
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births0.97
Deaths of infants under 1 year (males, 11; females, 5)16
Death-rate of infants under 1 year—
All infants per 1,000 live births15.88
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births14.57
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births26.08
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000 total live births)11.91
Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000 total live births)9.93
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths plus deaths under 1 week per 1,000 total live and stillbirths)24.46