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VITAL STATISTICS 1965
Registrar General's estimate of resident population, raid-year 1965 172,970
Live Births:
Legitimate (1,106 male, 1,13^ female) 2,240
Illegitimate ( 70 male, 98 female) 168
Total (1,176 male, 1,232 female) 2,408
Illegitimate live births per cent of total 6.98
Live birth rate per 1,000 population 13.92
Live birth rate adjusted by comparability factor of 1.04 14.48
Stillbirths:
Legitimate ( 23 male, 20 female) 43
Illegitimate ( 2 male, 1 female) 3
Total ( 25 male, 21 female) 46
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths 18.74
Total live and stillbirths 2,454
Deaths:
Infant deaths (under 1 year) ( 22 male, 18 female) 40
Infant death rate per 1,000 live births 16.61
Legitimate infant death rate per 1,000 legitimate live births
( 21 male, 15 female) 16.07
Illegitimate infant death rate per 1,000 illegitimate live
births ( 1 male, 3 female) 23.81
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks (30) per 1,000 live
births) 12.46
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths (46) and deaths under one
week (27) per 1,000 live and stillbirths) 29.75
Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000 live
births) 11.21
Maternal mortality (deaths from pregnancy, childbirth, abortion) 1
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 total births 0.41
General mortality:
Number of deaths ( 980 male, 768 female) 1,748
Death rate per 1,000 population - crude 10.11
Death rate adjusted by comparability factor of 1.32 13.34
CAUSES OF INFANT DEATHS
Cause of Death
Under
4 weeks
4 weeks to
1 year
Total
Pneumonia
4
3
7
Bronchitis
-
1
1
Congenital malformations
5
1
6
Accidents
-
1
1
Other causes (Prematurity etc.)
21
4
25
Totals
30
10
40
16