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Vital Statistics
Population 103,100
Live Births :—
Legitimate Males 618
Females 570
Illegitimate Males 22
Females 22
Totals 1,232
Birth rate per 1,000 of population 11.95
Stillbirths :—
Males 13
Females 18
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 24.54
Deaths :—
Males 566
Females 567
Totals 1,133
Death Rate per 1,000 10.99
Number of women dying from diseases and accidents of pregnancy
and childbirth :—
From sepsis 1
From other causes 2
Rate per 1,000 total (live and still) births 2.37
Death rate of infants under one year of age :—
All infants per 1,000 live births 14.61
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 14.30
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 22.73
The natural increase of population {i.e., excess of births over deaths)
was 99.
Comparability Factor.
To make approximate allowance for the way in which the sex and age
distribution of the Borough population differs from that for England and
Wales as a whole, the Registrar-General has issued the following comparability
factors for Leyton.
Area comparability factor for births 0.96
Area comparability factor for deaths 0.91
These factors, when applied to the crude rates, produce the following
adjusted rates :—
Live births 11.47
Deaths 10.00
Deaths.
The Registrar-General's classification of causes of death by sex totals
is shown in Table 1 on page 22.
The total number of deaths in 1954 (1,133) compares with 2,029* in
1953, the respective death rates per 1,000 population being 10.99 and 19.66.
* See note on page 22.