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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE AREA
Area (in acres) 6,556
Registrar-General's Estimate of resident population, 1961 109,020
Number of inhabited houses (end of 1961) according to Rate Books 31,407
Rateable value (December 31st, 1961) £1,675,329
Sum represented by a penny rate (1961/62) £7,423
Extracts from Vita! Statistics for the Year
Live Births:
Total Male Female
Legitimate 1,550 833 717
Illegitimate 75 30 45
Live birth rate per 1,000 of the estimated population 14.91
Stillbirths:
Legitimate 23 11 12
Illegitimate 2 11
Stillbirths rate per 1,000 live and stillbirths 15.15
Total live and stillbirths 1,650
Infant deaths 37
Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births—Total 22.77
Legitimate 22.58
Illegitimate 26.67
Neonatal mortality rate per 1,000 live births (first four weeks) 17.85
Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births 4.62
Maternal deaths (including abortion)
Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live and still births
Total Male Female
Deaths 913 508 405
Death rate per 1,000 of the estimated resident population 8.37
Deaths from Cancer (all ages) 211
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 1
Deaths from Whooping Cough (all ages)
Deaths from Gastritis, Enteritis and Diarrhoea (all ages) 2
Births
1,625 live births were notified during the year, there being 863 males and 762 females.
There is an increase of total births from 1,518 in 1960. The corrected birth rate per
thousand population was 14.16 compared with 17.4 for England and Wales.
The illegitimate birth rate continues to be very low, being only 4.62 percent of
total live births. There were no illegitimate stillbirths.
Deaths
Total deaths in district 651
Outward transfers 230
Inward transfers 492
Deaths of residents 913
Of the deaths of non-residents occurring in the district, 185 took place at Rush
Green Hospital, 24 at Dagenham Hospital and 15 at Hainault lodge.
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The crude death rate of 8.37 when corrected becomes 14.23 compared with 12.0 for
England and Wales.