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VITAL STATISTICS 1969
Registrar General's estimate of residential population, mid-year 1969 167,960
Live Births:
Legitimate (1,082 male, 988 female) 2,070
Illegitimate ( 83 male, 8l female) 164
Total (1,165 male, 1,069 female) 2,234
Illegitimate live births per cent of total 7.34
Live birth rate per 1,000 population 13.30
Live birth rate adjusted by comparability factor of 1.04 13.83
Stillbirths:
Legitimate (16 male, 16 female) 32
Illegitimate (1 male, 1 female) 2
Total (17 male, 17 female) 34
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 live and still births 14.99
Total live and still births 2,268
Deaths:
Infant deaths (lander 1 year) (25 male, 14 female) 39
Infant death rate per 1,000 live births 17.46
Legitimate infant death rate per 1,000 legitimate live births
(22 male, 11 female) 15.94
Illegitimate infant death rate per 1,000 illegitimate live births
( 3 male, 3 female) 36.59
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks (22) per 1,000
live births 9.85
Peri-natal mortality rate (stillbirths (34) and deaths under
one week (15) per 1,000 live and still births) 21.60
Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000
live births) 6.71
Maternal mortality (deaths from pregnancy, childbirth, abortion) Nil
General Mortality:
Number of deaths (1,027 male, 875 female) 1,902
Death rate per 1,000 population - crude 11.32
Death rate adjusted by comparability factor of 1.30 14.72
Continuing the trend of recent years the Registrar General's estimate of
population shows a slight fall from 170,100 in 1968 to 167,960 in 1969.
Infant death, and associated mortality rates remained below the national
average with the exception of the illegitimate infant death rate of 36.59 which
was well above the rate of 25 per thousand illegitimate live births for England
and Wales as a whole. The local statistics however are based on too few occurrences
and tend to fluctuate too widely for this rise to be regarded as significant. This
rate in previous years has varied as follows: 1965 - 23.8, 1966 - 12.35, 1967
25.0; 1968 - 6.29.
I am happy to report that there were no deaths associated with childbirth,
pregnancy or abortion during the year.
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