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ACCIDENTAL DEATHS
Deaths due to accidents numbered 79, (compared with 50 last year) motor vehicles being the
cause of 31 deaths- Statistics supplied by the Road Safety Officer will be found on page
82
EXPECTATION OF LIFE
On the basis of the mortality experience for the years 1965-7, the expectation of life of a
boy at birth is 68.7, and of a girl 74.9 years, stated the Registrar-General. Sixty years ago the
expectation of life of a boy at birth was 48.5 years and of a girl 52.4 years.
MORBIDITY
The number of first claims for sickness benefit are obtained from local offices of the
Ministry of Social Security and are included for information in a weekly bulletin circulated by
the department to all hospitals and general practitioners in the area- The Ministry's, offices
are not coterminous with the borough boundaries but rather with postal districts, so that these
claims do not relate entirely to borough residents; they cover the E.l, E.2, E«3 and E.14 postal
districts (Monthly figures are to be found on page 86.
MARRIAGES
The number of marriages solemnised in the borough during the year was 1,357, or 200 less than
the average for the last 3 years made up as foil ovs:-
Register Office 588
Church of Engl and 513
Authorised persons and other
denominations 256
The marriage rate per 1,000 population was 14.4 compared with 16.2 last year.
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Activities of the Health Department are publicised in "Tower Hamlets News" which is issued
to the public after each Council Meeting. Topics to which attention was drawn during the year
related to Child Minders, Clean Air, Chiropody, Safeguarding of Medicines and Drugs, Vaccination
and Immunisation, details of changes in Services provided at Clinic Centres, How to obtain a
Doctor in an Emergency and publicity for the Mass Radiography Unit's weekly Service in the
Borough, In addition the practice of circulating a weekly bulletin to general practitioners and
hospitals in the borough giving information on infectious disease, morbidity and relevant topical
matters was continued,
UNEMPLOYMENT
The number of wholly unemployed adult persons registered at the Poplar, Shoreditch and
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