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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Area (acres) 5,334
Population (Registrar General's Estimate, mid-year, 1965) 266,770
Population, Census, 1961 271,703
Domestic rateable hereditaments 85,633
Rateable Value (at 1st April, 1965) £104,051,023
BIRTHS
Live Births (registered)—
Total Males Females
Legitimate 3,217 1,684 1,533
Illegitimate 735 386 349
3,952 2,070 1,882
Birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated population 14.81
Area Comparability Factor—Births: 0.77
Birth rate (adjusted) 11.4
(Rate for England and Wales, 18.1)
Stillbirths (legitimate—males, 13; females 19: illegitimate—males, 7; females, 5) 44
Rate of stillbirths per 1,000 (live and still) births 11.01
Total live and stillbirths 3,996
Illegitimate live births per cent. of total live births 18.59
DEATHS
Net deaths (males 1,429; females 1,370) 2,799
Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 10.49
Area Comparability Factor—Deaths: 1.04
Death rate (adjusted) 10.9
(Rate for England and Wales, 11.5)
Deaths arising from pregnancy, childbirth, and abortion 3
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 0.75
Deaths of infants under one year (legitimate—males 31; females 27: illegitimate—males, 13;
females, 3) 74
Death rate of infants under one year—
All infants per 1,000 live births 18.72
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 18.03
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 21.77
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under four weeks per 1,000 total live births) 14.68
Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under one week per 1,000 total live births) 14.17
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths plus deaths under one week per 1,000 total live
and stillbirths) 25.03
Marriages
The number of marriages in Westminster during 1965 was 4,336.
Deaths
The total number of deaths shown in Table 1, page 53, includes persons who, though normally
resident in Westminster, died elsewhere in England and Wales but excludes persons who, though
they died in the City, were ordinarily resident in other parts of England and Wales. Deaths of persons
ordinarily resident outside the borders of England and Wales are included in the figures if they occurred
in the City, as also are those of members of H.M. Forces who were stationed in the area.
Deaths registered in 1965 numbered 2,799 (10.49 per 1,000). The rate of 10.49 when standardized
by the comparability factor gives a figure of 10.90; the rates for the County of London and for
England and Wales were 11.01 and 11.5 respectively.