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City of Westminster 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Area (acres) 2,503-9
Population (Registrar General's Estimate, mid-year, 1961) 86,680
Population, Census, 1961 85,223
Number of private dwellings (Census, 1961) 30,214
Rateable Value (at 1st April, 1961) £22,120,415
Births
Live Births (registered)—
Total. Males. Females.
Legitimate 888 458 430
Illegitimate 123 71 52
1,011 529 482
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 11-66
Area Comparability Factor—Births: 0-84
Birth rate (adjusted) 9-79
(Rate for England and Wales, 17-4)
Number of stillbirths (males, 9; females, 8) 17
Rate of stillbirths per 1,000 (live and still) births 16-53
Total live and still births 1,028
Illegitimate live births per cent, of total live births 12-16
Deaths
Net deaths (males 508; females, 463) 971
Death-rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 11-20
Area Comparability Factor—Deaths: 0-99
Death rate (adjusted) 11.08
(Rate for England and Wales, 12-0)
Deaths arising from pregnancy, childbirth, abortion Nil
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births
Deaths of infants under 1 year (males, 14; females, 9) 23
Death-rate of infants under 1 year—
All infants per 1,000 live births 22-74
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 19-14
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 48-78
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks per 1,000
total live births) 15-82
Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per
1,000 total live births) 14-83
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths plus deaths under 1 week
per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) 31-12