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Tower Hamlets 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1965
| Area of Borough (Acres) | 4, 994 | Rateable Value (1st April) | £14, | 685, | 867 | ||
| Population: Mid-year estimate | 204, 560 | ||||||
| Census, 1961 (former Boroughs) | 205, 682 | Sum represented by a penny rate (1965-66) | £57, | 200 | |||
| Density of population (persons per acre) | 45.19 | ||||||
| General Rate (1965-66) | 10s. | 6d. | in £ | ||||
| Number of inhabited dwellings according to Rate Books | 60, | 913 | |||||
| " structurally separate dwellings - Census 1961 | 59, | 885 | |||||
| " private households - Census 1961 | 67, | 858 | |||||
| Births | Total | Male | Female | ||||
| All Births | 3, 925 | 2,014 | 1,911 | ||||
| Live Births | Legitimate | 3,390 | 1, 761 | 1,629 | |||
| Illegitimate | 477 | 225 | 252 | ||||
| Total | 3,867 | 1, 986 | 1, 881 | ||||
| Still Births | Legitimate | 49 | 24 | 25 | |||
| Illegitimate | 9 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| T otal | 58 | 28 | 30 | ||||
| Deaths. | |||||||
| All Causes | 2,280 | 1,294 | 986 | ||||
| M aternal | Nil | - | Nil | ||||
| Infants under 1 year | Legitimate | 68 | 42 | 26 | |||
| Illegitimate | 8 | 6 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 76 | 48 | 28 | ||||
| Rates | |||||||
| Live birth-rate per 1, 000 population | 18.90 | ||||||
| Death rate per 1, 000 population | 11.10 | ||||||
| Still-birth rate per 1, 000 total births | 14. 77 | ||||||
| Maternal death rate per 1, 000 total births | - | ||||||
| Infant death rate (under 1 year) per 1, 000 live births | 19.65 | ||||||
| Legitimate infant death rate per 1,000 legitimate live births | 20.07 | ||||||
| Illegitimate infant death rate per 1, 000 illegitimate live births | 16.77 | ||||||
| Neo-natal death rate (under 4 weeks) per 1, 000 live births | 13. 44 | ||||||
| Early neo-natal death rate (under 1 week) per 1, 000 live births | 10. 86 | ||||||
| Perinatal death rate (stillbirths plus deaths under 1 week) per 1,000 total births | 25.47 | ||||||
| Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births | 12.33 | ||||||
| Area Comparability Factors | Births | 0. 93 Deaths | 1.15 | ||||
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