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VITAL STATISTICS 1971
Registrar General's estimate of residential population, mid-year 1971. 153,870
Live Births:
Legitimate (1,039 male, 982 female) 2,021
Illegitimate (73 male, 80 female) 153
Total (1,112 male, 1,062 female) 2,174
Illegitimate live births per cent of total 7.04
Live birth rate per 1,000 population 14.13
Live birth rate adjusted by comparability factor of 1.04 14.70
Stillbirths:
Legitimate (12 male 9 female) 21
Illegitimate (2 male 4 female) 6
Total (14 male 13 female) 27
Stillbirth rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths 12.27
Total live and stillbirths 2,201
Deaths:
Infant deaths (under 1 year) (26 male 20 female) 46
Infant death rate per 1,000 live births 21.16
Legitimate infant death rate per 1,000 legitimate live births
(23 male 17 female) 19.79
Illegitimate infant death rate per 1,000 illegitimate live births
(3 male 3 female) 39.22
Neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 4 weeks (32) per 1,000
live births) 14.72
Peri-natal mortality rate (stillbirths (27) and deaths under one
week (26) per 1,000 live and stillbirths) 24.08
Early neo-natal mortality rate (deaths under 1 week per 1,000
live births) 11.96
Maternal mortality rate (deaths from pregnancy, childbirth, abortion) Nil
General Mortality:
Number of deaths (1,012 male 849 female) 1,861
Death rate per 1,000 population-crude 12.09
Death rate adjusted by comparability factor of 1.31 15.84
The Registrar General's estimate of population for 1971, 153,870 shows a
marked fall from the previous year - 16 6,060. There is no apparent reason for
the reduction in the estimate and this figure must be suspect. On it are based
the local statistical rates for births and deaths which may therefore be
artificially high.
In order to improve comparability with national statistics, the Abbreviated
List of Causes of Death issued by the Registrar General was expanded in 1971
to include further sub-divisions relating to deaths from tuberculosis, malignant
neoplasms and multiple sclerosis, and now comprises classifications under 72
headings.
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