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These factors, when applied to the crude rates, produce the
following adjusted rates :—
Live births 11.89
Deaths 17.89
The usual comparison of birth and death rates with those for
the whole country is shown in Table 1, on page 23.
Deaths
The Registrar-General's classification of causes of death by
sex totals is shown in Table 4, on page 25.
The total number of deaths in 1953 (2,029) compares with
1,220 in 1952, the respective death rates per 1,000 population being
11.70 and 19.66.
N.B.—In October, 1952, the Registrar-General issued instructions
whereby the following types of institutions are regarded as the
usual place of residence of their inmates, and that, as from
1st January, 1953, in these types of institutions the births and
deaths are assigned to the area in which the event takes place.
Hospitals for the Chronic Sick.
Nursing Homes for Aged and Chronic Sick.
Mental Deficiency Institutions and accommodation provided
under Part III of the National Assistance Act, 1948.
The effect of this is that nearly eight hundred deaths (in
Langthorne Hospital), which would have been transferred to districts
other than Leyton have been assigned to -this area with the result
that the death rate of 19.66 is the highest this century, as against
an adjusted death rate of 10.92 had this not come into effect.