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Tower Hamlets 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]
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| Area of Borough (Acres) | 4,876 | Rateable Value (1st April) | £15, | 015, | 140 | ||
| Population: Mid-year estimate | 192, 250 | Sum represented by a penny rate (1968-69) | £57, | 800 | |||
| Census, 1966 | 196, 830 | ||||||
| Census, 1961 | 205, 682 | General Rate (1968-69) Dwelling houses | 11s. | 11d. | in £ | ||
| Density of population (persons per acre) | 39.43 | ||||||
| Other hereditaments | 12s. | 9d. | in £ | ||||
| Number of inhabited dwellings according to Rate Books at 1st April, 1968 | 62, 662 | ||||||
| " structurally separate dwellings - Census 1961 | 59, 885 | ||||||
| " " private households - Census 1961 | 67, 858 | ||||||
| Births | Total | Male | Fema1e | ||||
| All Births | 2, 927 | 1, 514 | 1, 413 | ||||
| Live Births | Legitimate | 2, 516 | 1,304 | 1,212 | |||
| Illegitimate | 359 | 182 | 177 | ||||
| Total: | 2,875 | 1, 486 | 1,389 | ||||
| Still-Births | Legitimate | 42 | 23 | 19 | |||
| Illegitimate | 10 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Total: | 52 | 28 | 24 | ||||
| Deaths | |||||||
| All Causes | 2,382 | 1, 346 | 1,036 | ||||
| Maternal | – | - | - | ||||
| Infants under 1 year | Legitimate | 61 | 46 | 15 | |||
| Illegitimate | 8 | 5 | 3 | ||||
| Total; | 69 | 51 | 18 | ||||
| Rates | |||||||
| Live birth-rate per 1, 000 population | 14, 95 | ||||||
| Death rate per 1, 000 population | 12.39 | ||||||
| Still-birth rate per 1, 000 total births | 18. 08 | ||||||
| Maternal death rate per 1,000 total births | 0. 00 | ||||||
| Infant death rate (under 1 year) per 1, 000 live births | 24. 00 | ||||||
| Legitimate infant death rate per 1, 000 legitimate live births | 24.24 | ||||||
| Illegitimate infant death rate per 1, 000 illegitimate live births | 22.28 | ||||||
| Neo-natal death rate (under 4 weeks) per 1, 000 live births | 17. 74 | ||||||
| Early neo-natal death rate (under 1 week) per 1, 000 live births | 13.56 | ||||||
| Perinatal death rate (stillbirths plus deaths under 1 week) per 1, 000 total births | 31. 09 | ||||||
| Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births | 12.48 | ||||||
| Area Comparability Factors | Births | 0.92 | Deaths | 1.18 | |||
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