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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Crayford 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Crayford]
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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA
Area (in acres) 2.698.71
Population (Registrar General’s estimate
mid year 1961) 31.290
Number of inhabited houses 9.623
Rateable value £482.345
Sum represented by a penny rate £1.980
Live Births
Total M F
Legitimate 555 278 277
Illegitimate17 7 10
572 285 287
Birth rate per 1.000 of the estimated home population - 18.28
Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births - 3.06%
General birth rate for England and Wales - 17.4
Stillbirths
Total M F
Legitimate 6 5 1
Illegitimate
6 5 1
Rate per 1.000 total (live and still) births - 10 38
Total M P
Deaths 251 144 107
Death rate per 1, 000 of the estimated resident population - 8.02
General death rate for England and Wales - 12.0
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