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Births
The total number of live births to residents in the Borough
registered in 1972 was 4,488, comprising 2,366 males and 2,122
females.
The crude birthrate was 14.8 per 1,000 population. The rate
as adjusted by the area comparability factor was 13.4. The live
birthrate for England and Wales was 14.8.
During the year there were 774 illegitimate live births to
residents in the Borough, representing 17 per cent of the total
live births for the area. The national average was 9 per cent.
Stihbirths during the year numbered 63, giving a total of
4,551 live and still births for the whole area.
Deaths
There has been no unusual or excessive mortality during the
year.
The number of deaths assigned to the Borough, after adjustment
for inward and outward transfers, was 4,063, comprising
1,919 males and 2,144 females.
The crude death-rate was 13.4 per 1,000 population, and the
adjusted death-rate, after application of the area comparability
factor, 11.7. The death rate for England and Wales was 12.1.
Table 2, which is shown on pages 32 and 33, is the general
mortality table for the Borough, and shows the number of deaths
from each cause divided into sexes, age groups and localities.
Table 3 shows the deaths from heart disease.
The causes of death shown in Table 2 are based on the
International Abbreviated List of 50 causes (B List), with some
sub-divisions, from the World Health Organisation's Manual of
the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries
and Causes of Death (8th revision, Geneva, 1969).