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VITAL STATISTICS 1967
Registrar General's estimate of resident population, mid-year 1967 170,100
Live Births:
Legitimate (1,114 male, 1,022 female) 2,136
Illegitimate (91 male, 69 female) 160
Total (1,205 male, 1,091 female) 2,296
Illegitimate live births per cent of total 6.97
Live birth rate per 1,000 population 13.50
Live birth rate adjusted by comparability factor of 1.04 14.04
Stillbirths:
Legitimate ( 17 male, 14 female) 31
Illegitimate (-male, 1 female) 1
Total (17 male, 15 female) 32
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths 13.69
Total live and stillbirths 2,328
Deaths:
Infant deaths (under 1 year) (22 male, 23 female) 45
Infant death rate per 1,000 live births 19.6
Legitimate infant death rate per 1,000 legitimate live births
(21 male, 20 female) 19.19
Illegitimate infant death rate per 1,000 illegitimate live
births (1 male, 3 female) 25.00
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks (26) per 1,000 live
births) 11.32
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths (32) and deaths under one
week (25) per 1,000 live and stillbirths) 24.48
Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000 live
births) 10.89
Maternal mortality (deaths from pregnancy, childbirth, abortion) 1
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 total births 0.43
General mortality:
Number of deaths (985 male, 730 female) 1,715
Death rate per 1,000 population-crude 10.08
Death rate adjusted by comparability factor of 1.33 13.31
The vital statistics for the borough remained substantially the same as in
the previous year.
The infant death rate was slightly above the national average of 18.3 which
is the lowest national rate ever recorded, and the stillbirth rate again showed
a welcome fall from 14.27 in 1966 to 13*69 in 1967.
I regret to report that one, mother died from causes associated with
pregnancy and childbirth during the year. Everything was done to preserve life,
and subsequent investigations attributed this death to natural causes.
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