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Infant Mortality (Contd.)
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under one week
combined per 1,000 total live births and stillbirths) 23
Perinatal mortality rate for Greater London 20.9
Perinatal mortality rate for England and Wales 22
MATERNAL MORTALITY
Maternal deaths (including abortions) NIL
Maternal mortality rate for Greater London per 1,000 live
and stillbirths (excluding deaths due to abortion) 0.20
DEATHS
Males Females Total
1568 1671 3239
Crude death rate per 1,000 estimated total population 10.6
Adjusted rate for comparison with other areas
(Area comparability factor for deaths: .98) 10.4
Crude death rate for Greater London per 1,000 population 11.8
Death rate for England and Wales 12.1
CANCER DEATH RATES
All forms (per 1,000 population) 2.3
Lung and Bronchus (per 1,000 population) 0.65
Other forms (per 1,000 population) 1.65
POPULATION
The Registrar.General's estimate of the population of the Borough, mid.year 1972, was
306,550 This figure gives a density of 8.15 persons to the acre.
The natural increase of population, measured by excess of births over deaths, was 732.
The figure for 1971 was 1167.
BIRTHS REGISTERED
There ware 3971 live births allocated to the Borough during 1972 after adjustments for inward
and outward transfers, this being a decrease of 311 on the figure for the previous year.
Of the 3971 live births, 2024 were males and 1947 were females.
The crude birth rate for the Borough was 13.0 per 1,000 population and the adjusted birth
rate, for use when comparing one area with another, was 13.1
The birth rate for 1972 was 1.0 lower than that recorded for 1971 and it is below the figures
of 14.1 and 14.8 for Greater London and England and Wales respectively.
In addition to the live births there were 46 stillbirths, representing a rate of 11 per thousand
total births. This rate is comparable with that of 11.2 for Greater London and 12 for the country
as a whole. The figure for the Borough for 1971 was 12 per 1,000 total births.
Sex
LIVE BIRTHS
STILL BIRTHS
Legitimate Illegitimate Total Legitimate Illegitimate Total
Males 1869 155 2024 26 . 26
Females 1801 146 1947 16 4 20
Totals 3670 301 3971 42 4 46
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