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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA
Area (in acres) 6,556
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, 1959 114,200
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1959) according to Rate Books 31,313
Rateable value (December 31st, 1959) £1,636,164
Sum represented by a penny rate (1959/60) £6,799
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year
Live Births:
Total Male Female
Legitimate 1,473 765 708
Illegitimate 55 26 29
Live birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated population 13.38
Stillbirths:
Legitimate 28 14 14
Illegitimate 1 1 —
Stillbirths rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths 18.63
Total live and stillbirths 1,557 806 751
Infant deaths 27
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births—Total 17.67
Legitimate 16.97
Illegitimate 36.36
Neonatal mortality rate per 1,000 live births (first four weeks) 13.09
Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births 3.60
Maternal deaths (including abortion) —
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live and still births —
Total Male Female
Deaths 910 532 378
Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 7.97
Deaths fromCancer (all ages) 212
„ „ Measles (all ages) 1
,, „ Whooping Cough (all ages) —
,, ,, Gastritis, Enteritis and Diarrhoea (all ages) 5
Births
1,528 live births were notified during the year, there being 791 males and 737 females.
There is a decrease of total births from 1,536 in 1958 to 1,528. The corrected birth
rate per thousand population was 16.43 compared with 16.5 for England and Wales.
The illegitimate birth rate continues to be very low, being only 3.60 per cent of total
live births. The rate of illegitimate stillbirths is 3.45 per cent of total stillbirths.
Deaths
Total deaths in district 677
Outward transfers 226
Inward transfers 459
Deaths of residents 910
Of the deaths of non-residents occurring in the district, 192 took place at Rush
Green Hospital, 22 at Dagenham Hospital and 5 at Hainault Lodge.
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