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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA
Area (in acres) 6,556
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, 1958 114,100
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1958) according to Rate Books 31,048
Rateable value (December 31st, 1958) £1,357,885
Sum represented by a penny rate (approximate 1958-9) £5,465
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year
Live Births:
Total Male Female
Legitimate .. 1,483 778 705
Illegitimate 53 31 22
Live birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated population 13.46
Stillbirths:
Legitimate 28 16 12
Illegitimate 2 1 1
Stillbirths rate per 1,000 live and still births 19.16
Total live and still births 1,566 826 740
Infant deaths 25
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births—Total 16.28
Legitimate 15.51
Illegitimate 37.74
Neo Natal mortality rate per 1,000 live births (first four weeks) 11.72
Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births 3.45
Maternal deaths (including abortion) 3
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live and still births 1.92
Total Male Female
Deaths 834 476 358
Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 7.31
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 183
„ „ Measles (all ages) —
„ „ Whooping Cough (all ages) —
„ „ Gastritis, Enteritis and Diarrhoea (all ages) 4
Births
1,536 live births were notified during the year, there being 809 males and 727
females. There is an increase of total births from 1,432 in 1957t0 I?53^. The corrected
birth rate per thousand population was 12.52 compared with 16.4 for England and Wales.
The illegitimate birth rate continues to be very slow, being only 3.45 per cent of
total live births. The rate of illegitimate stillbirths is 6.67 per cent of total stillbirths.
Death Rate
Total deaths in district 635
Outward transfers 211
Inward transfers 410
Deaths of residents 834
Of the deaths of non-residents occurring in the district, 180 took place at Rush
Green Hospital and 12 at Dagenham Hospital.
Of the deaths of local residents taking place outside this area, most occurred in
institutions. Of these 240 occurred at Oldchurch Hospital; 55 at St. George's Hospital,
Hornchurch; 15 at King George Hospital, Ilford; 14 at London Hospital; 5 at the
London Chest Hospital; 5 at Ilford Isolation Hospital; 5 at St. Andrew's, Billericary;
4 at East Ham Memorial Hospital and 4 at Victoria Hospital, Romford.
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