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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
Dagenham 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]
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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE AREA
Area and Population
Area (in acres) 6,728
Registrar General's estimation of resident population 108,950
No. of inhabited houses (end of 1963) according to rate books 51,883
Rateable value (31st December 1963) £6,287,422
Sum represented by a penny rate (1963/64) £25,850
Vital Statistics
Live Births:
Legitimate (716 male, 705 female) 1,421
Illegitimate (46 male, 32 female) 78
Total (762 male, 737 female) 1,499
Illegitimate live births per cent of total live births 5.20
Rate per 1,000 population 13.76
Stillbirths:
Legitimate ( 8 male, 15 female) 23
Illegitimate ( 3 male, 1 female) 4
Total (l1 male, 16 female) 27
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 17.69
Total live and stillbirths 1.526
Infant deaths 27
Infant mortality rates:
Total infant deaths per 1,000 total live births 18.01
Legitimate infant deaths per 1,000 legitimate live births 17.59
Illegitimate infant deaths per 1,000 illegitimate live
births 25.64
Neonatal mortality rate (deaths under four weeks per 1,000
total live births) 11.34
Early neonatal mortality rate (deaths under one week per 1,000
total live births) 10.67
Perinatal mortality rate (stillbirths and deaths under one
week per 1,000 total live and stillbirths) 28.18
Maternal mortality (including abortion):
N umber of deaths 1
Rate per 1,000 total live and stillbirths 66
General mortality:
Number of deaths (595 male, 431 female) 1,026
Death rate per 1,000 population - crude 9.42
Death rate per 1,000 population - adjusted 13.56
Births
The total of 1,499 live births notified during the year shows a decrease
from the total of 1,527 recorded in 1962. The corrected birth rate per thousand
of the population was 14.17, compared with 18.2 for England and Wales.
The illegitimate birth rate showed little change, being 5.20% of total live
births.
The stillbirth rate was 17.69 per 1,000 total live and stillbirths, compared
with 17.3 for England and Wales. This is appreciably less than the rate
of 22.41 per 1,000 births recorded in the previous year.
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