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VITAL STATISTICS 1968
Registrar General's estimate of resident population, raid-year 1968 169,520
Live Births:
Legitimate (1,098 male, 1,050 female) 2,148
Illegitimate (91 male, 68 female) 159
Total (1,189 male, 1,118 female) 2,307
Illegitimate live births per cent of total 6.89
Live birth rate per 1,000 population 13.61
Live birth rate adjusted by comparability factor of 1.04 14.15
Stillbirths:
Legitimate (15 male, 15 female) 30
Illegitimate (2 male, - female) 2
Total( 17 male, 15 female) 32
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths 13.68
Total live and stillbirths 2,339
Deaths:
Infant deaths (under 1 year) (19 male, 22 female) 4l
Infant death rate per 1,000 live births 17.77
Legitimate infant death rate per 1,000 legitimate live births
(19 male, 21 female) 18.62
Illegitimate infant death rate per 1,000 illegitimate live
births (- male, 1 female) 6.29
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under b weeks (26) per 1,000
live births 11.27
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths (32) and deaths under
one week (2^) per 1,000 live and stillbirths) 23.94
Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000
live births) 10.40
Maternal mortality (deaths from pregnancy, childbirth, abortion) Nil
Maternal mortality rate Nil
General Mortality:
Number of deaths (1,027 males, 83O females) 1,857
Death rate per 1,000 population - crude 10.95
Death rate adjusted by comparability factor of 1.32 14.46
The vital statistics for the borough remained substantially the same as in
the previous year.
The infant death rate dropped and was slightly below the national average
of 18.3 and the stillbirth rate remained virtually the same as in 1967.
We had no maternal deaths associated with pregnancy and childbirth during
the year.
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