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VITAL STATISTICS 1966
Registrar General's estimate of resident population, mid-year 1966 171,000
Live Births:
Legitimate (1,194 male, 992 female) 2,186
Illegitimate ( 83 male, 79 female) 162
Total (1,277 male, 1,071 female) 2,348
Illegitimate live births per cent of total 6.89
Live birth rate per 1,000 population 13.73
Live birth rate adjusted by comparability factor of 1.04 14.29
Stillbirths:
Legitimate ( 19 male, 13 female) 32
Illegitimate (- male, 2 female) 2
Total ( 19 male, 15 female) 3^
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths 14.27
Total live and stillbirths 2,382
Deaths:
Infant deaths (under 1 year) ( 23 male, 13 female) 36
Infant death rate per 1,000 live births 15.33
Legitimate infant death rate per 1,000 legitimate live births
( 22 male, 12 female) 15.55
Illegitimate infant death rate per 1,000 illegitimate live
births ( 1 male, 1 female) 12.35
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks (26) per 1,000 live
births) 11.07
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths (34) and deaths under one
week (22) per 1,000 live and stillbirths) 23.51
Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000 live
births) 9.37
Maternal mortality (deaths from pregnancy, childbirth, abortion) 2
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 total births 0.84
General mortality:
Number of deaths ( 995 male, 706 female) 1,701
Death rate per 1,000 population-crude 9.95
Death rate adjusted by comparability factor of 1.33 13.23
The vital statistics for the borough remained substantially the same as in
the previous year.
The infant death rate was again well below the national average of 19*0 and
the stillbirth rate showed a welcome fall from 18.74 in 1965 to 14.27 in 1966.
I regret to report that two mothers died from causes associated with
pregnancy and childbirth during the year. Everything was done to preserve life
and subsequent investigations attributed both deaths to natural causes.
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