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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA
Area (in acres) 6,556
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population, 1960 114,760
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1960) according to Rate Books 31,407
Rateable value (December 31st, 1960) £1,675,329
Sum represented by a penny rate (1960/61) £7,423
Extracts from Vital Statistics for the Year
Live Births:
Total Male Female
Legitimate 1,476 773 703
Illegitimate 42 22 20
Live birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated population 13.23
Stillbirths:
Legitimate 38 12 26
Illegitimate — — —
Stillbirths rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths 24.42
Total live and stillbirths 1,556 807 749
Infant deaths 43
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births—Total 28.33
Legitimate 28.46
Illegitimate 23.81
Neonatal mortality rate per 1,000 live births (first four weeks) 22.40
Illegitimate live births per cent of total lives births 2.77
Maternal deaths (including abortion) —
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live and still births —
Total Male Female
Deaths 884 504 380
Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 7.70
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 217
Deaths from Measles (all ages) —
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages) —
Deaths from Gastritis, Enteritis and Diarrhoea (all ages) 5
Births
1,518 live births were notified during the year, there being 795 males and 723
females. There is a decrease of total births from 1,528 in 1959. The corrected birth
rate per thousand population was 12.30 compared with 17.1 for England and Wales.
The illegitimate birth rate continues to be very low, being only 2.77 per cent of
total live births. There were no illegitimate stillbirths.
Deaths
Total deaths in district 647
Outward transfers 213
Inward transfers 450
Deaths of residents 884
Of the deaths of non-residents occurring in the district, 160 took place at Rush
Green Hospital, 28 at Dagenham Hospital and 17 at Hainault Lodge.
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